Community Foundations - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Apr 2016
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Innovating Education to Create College-Ready Academic Achievers

Ian Rowe (MBA 1993) is navigating a clear path to success for students at Public Prep, a network of tuition-free charter schools in New York City. Like the North Star-shaped model that frames the schools’ mission, Rowe is building a View Details

28 Feb 2025
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Joy to the World

throughlines he’s found is community joy and how strengthening the foundations of that experience can help societies sustain and succeed in challenging times. And in this episode of Skydeck, Justin and I... View Details

29 May 2015
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The 24/7 Work Culture’s Toll on Families and Gender Equality

01 Dec 2022
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The Potential of Business to Improve Lives

says, people throughout the business community are interested in diversity in the workplace and looking to scholars to guide their decision making. Studying the complex and multifaceted topic requires a group of investigators from a wide... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2015
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Giving Advice

yourself wanting to learn more and spend more time? At an early, highly personal phase like this, the best learning will be experimental, not analytical. For personal giving, do you favor a community View Details

02 Jan 2019
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Not Waiting for Progress

Brickson Diamond (MBA 1999) has never been one to, as he puts it, “just sit back and wait for progress to happen.” His role as cofounder and chair of the Blackhouse Foundation is a case in point. The organization took shape in 2006 after... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

22 Jun 2023
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Book Smart

launch of Risher’s nonprofit, Worldreader, an organization that uses technology to reach children all over the world through its foundational app. Within months, Worldreader’s app launched, offering access to thousands of books from... View Details

30 Mar 2015
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Reconnecting Californians with their history

As foundation director of LaSeñora Research Institute, Patricia Nettleship (AMP 86, 1981) helps preserve the rich cultural heritage of the Rancho Era of early California through research and education programs. (Published March 2015) View Details

19 Sep 2016
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The Real Meaning of Love

Katie Hood (MBA 2001) is CEO of the One Love Foundation , which is dedicated to bringing an end to relationship violence by educating, empowering, and activating campus communities. In this interview, Hood describes why the organization... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Students Take Aim at Foreclosures

Last spring four HBS students traveled to Minneapolis to visit the nonprofit Homeownership Preservation Foundation (HPF), which counsels people who are facing foreclosure on their homes. Meeting with HPF officials, the students discussed... View Details

Keywords: foreclosures; Real Estate

24 Apr 2014
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Giving students a chance to attend elite private schools

Teresa Clarke (AB 1984, JD 1987, MBA 1988) reflects on helping start the Student Sponsorship Foundation of South Africa to give black students the opportunity to attend elite private schools. (Published April 2014) View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Leading change in issues around gender and equality

Harvard Business School Professor Robin Ely discusses the School's leadership role in changing issues and business practices around gender and equality. (Published April 2014) View Details

07 May 2020
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Ensuring Student Equity

foundation of our work with students is relationship-based because they need social-emotional support,” she explains. “We also created the Community Connections Program, which is designed to keep us... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

29 Mar 2023
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Robert Kraft Launches Campaign to Combat Antisemitism

person," as reported by CBS News. The campaign was launched through Kraft's Foundation to Combat Antisemitism and will feature public service television advertisements as well as a social media campaign. Kraft told the Associated Press... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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No Place Like Home

housing is a problem that increasingly affects companies and employers, as well as the overall economy," says F. Barton Harvey (MBA '74), (see related story) chairman and CEO of the Enterprise Foundation, a nationwide housing and View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

07 Nov 2016
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The Business of Saving Old Buildings

Roger Webb (MBA 1961) is the founder and chairman emeritus of the Architectural Heritage Foundation in Boston and was instrumental in launching Preservation Massachusetts, a statewide nonprofit historic preservation organization. In this... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Identifying why the path to the top for women and racial minorities remains elusive

While diversity in hiring has increased markedly among professional service organizations, the changes are not reflected at the senior-most levels. For example, in US law firms, women comprise 46 percent of associates but only 19 percent of partners, and racial... View Details

28 Mar 2014
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Wanted: Public Entrepreneurs

Keywords: public entrepreneurs; government innovation; Government

10 Apr 2013
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Tapped In

resource his company harvests from pine trees. But he can offer a brief history: resin-harvesting is a millenarian tradition, mentioned in the Bible; it was a foundational industry for colonial America; and resin is even why North... View Details

Keywords: pine resin; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Wood Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2020
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Making Democracy Work

A democratically elected government is essential to free-market capitalism—a strong democracy provides the foundation necessary for capitalism to benefit all, rather than only a few. Today, democracy is in decline around the world, and... View Details

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