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- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
between cause and effect?" asks Ebrahim. "Some organizations have a focused theory of change, where the relationship between their actions and their impacts on society are linear and can be observed." The delivery of a basic service, such as shelter for View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Does Spirituality Drive Success?
"harmony" among his personal life, business life, and philanthropy, he said, "is as close as I'm going to come to being a spiritual person." He cited with pride the fact that his daughter works with the Coalition for the View Details
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
shelters, Shumway talked to homeless residents about their circumstances. “These are good people,” he says. “They may have started to self-medicate with drugs or alcohol because they didn’t have access to the psychiatric or medical... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants
FUNDRAISER FOR HOMELESS VETS: HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association members, including Jon Redmond and Kate Kohler (both MBA '06), took turns spending three days and two nights in late March camped out on Spangler Lawn to help raise... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
A Pioneer of Affordable Housing
and homeless veterans. “Our firm’s family properties are mainly three-bedroom townhomes. For many of our residents,” Freeman says, “these are the first modern, safe, and secure homes they have ever had. For View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Turnaround Situation
One of his agency’s current projects, the conversion of an aging 109-room motel into housing for the city’s homeless veterans, has special meaning for Cordova. Following a tour of duty as a Navy corpsman in Vietnam, Cordova attended... View Details
- Portrait Project
Nicole Hanrahan
When I tell people I want to run an employment program for homeless drug addicts, many think I'm absolutely crazy. However, I want to devote my career to building just such a business. My pre-MBA experience of providing job training to... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
position at San Mateo–based Shelter Network, which needed her skills to research and implement its merger with another homelessness service provider, InnVision, in Santa Clara. InnVision’s business model was to charge View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- Profile
Inessa Lurye
Adrian Fenty to transform the city’s homeless program. “We identified the people with the highest likelihood of dying on the streets, and instead of warehousing them in homelessness, provided them with permanent housing and case... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
City Hall’s Headbanger
notice: heavy metal mayor. READ MORE Keller on the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative's impact on homelessness in Albuquerque READ MORE Keller on the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative's impact on View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 05 Jun 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
of Covenant House, a shelter for homeless and trafficked youth in Manhattan, and volunteers at ESchool4Girls, teaching entrepreneurship to high school students. “I love the fact my background in science and business allows me to make an... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- News
Finding Her Place
Yet Hudson couldn’t stop thinking about the opportunity. The problem of homelessness in Miami-Dade had improved over the previous two decades. In 1996, there were an estimated 8,000 people in the area without stable housing (a figure that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Students Assist Needy Family
A Boston family threatened with homelessness got a financial lift from more than seventy HBS students just before Thanksgiving. In response to an e-mail campaign launched by roommates Grace Simmons and Jennifer Kelm (both HBS ’10), their... View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Blog Post
Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust
immediately ahead. “I had to figure out how to set up isolation and quarantine sites for two to three thousand homeless people, sheltered and unsheltered,” he says. “I made epidemiological models to estimate the number of rooms we needed,... View Details
- 09 Aug 2017
- News
Finding a Path Out of Poverty
for Inspire Belief while studying in the HBS Advanced Management Program, in 2013. The CEO of Johannesburg investing house Momentum—who had once been homeless on the streets of the very same city—had reached the point in his career when... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Brazil Banks on Experience
of Goi ás as a member of a party that opposed Lula’s Workers Party. “Despite being a member of the outgoing governing party and making his career in international finance, Mr. Meirelles won points with Mr. da Silva partly because of his pioneering social work,” the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 31 Mar 2022
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
chapters—features hyperlocal food drives. “The food comes from restaurants or corporations in the neighborhood, and our volunteers are residents of that neighborhood,” Ghose explains. The beneficiaries can be homeless people, or residents... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
Photos by Bridget Corke “Pleased, but not satisfied.” That’s how Frank Magwegwe (AMP 185, 2013) describes the drive that helped him to overcome homelessness as a young man in South Africa, get an education, and build a successful career... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Feb 2016
- News
The Power of Art
The New York Times checked in with for-profit art broker Artlifting. The young company, which represents homeless and disabled artists, now has seven employees and works with more than 70 artists in eight cities. It has sold artwork for... View Details