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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Honorable Mention
Hoegh, Steven Le Poole, Kerstin Nilsson, Paul Ostergaard, and Ernesto Gonzalez-Quattrini - who established a corporate sponsorship program to raise money for the construction of elementary View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
Risher: E-reading the African story “Treasure of the Trees” at the Kade Primary School in Ghana. Courtesy David Risher If you’ve just read Curious George Visits the Library and desperately want to get your... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell
In the light and airy fourth-grade classroom at the Bowman public school in Lexington, Massachusetts, the desks are clustered back-to-back in groups of five, forming a series of islands. In one corner, a... View Details
Keywords: Eileen McCluskey
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
four hundred purveyors of the market's assorted handmade crafts, antiques, second-hand clothing, artwork, fresh produce, and exotica. Of these many merchants who set up shop - weather permitting - each weekend morning on the blacktopped... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
marketed credit cards for Chemical Bank, then MasterCard. But she always found time to volunteer, recording books for the visually impaired, and reading to elementary school... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A bold experiment in education
college acceptance rate and sent the highest percentage of its graduates to college in the city, excluding selective-admissions schools. Most recently, in 2013, NOCP took over the operation of the lowest-performing View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
"It was very bizarre," Jones says. "A neighborhood of 150,000 people suddenly didn't have a proper place to buy food." Jones learned that the city was eyeing the supermarket location for a police station and that a new View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Community Reaches Out
sites, participants took part in myriad projects that included painting at Allston's Gardner Elementary School and landscaping at Cambridge's Center for Sustainable Building.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Project outreach
in Dorchester, Long Island Shelter in Boston, and Gardner Elementary School in Allston. Participants painted, cleaned, and landscaped buildings... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
in elementary school in Chicago in the 1980s. Michael Jordan was an early inspiration, and a dramatic poster of the legendary Chicago Bulls star hangs on the wall in her office... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
Courtesy Shalinee Sharma Courtesy Shalinee Sharma As a sixth grader in Buffalo, New York, Shalinee Sharma (MBA 2005) believed math just wasn’t her thing. There were only a few girls in the honors class at her new school, and Sharma soon realized that she was far behind... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
Edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Dan Bejar Tom DeLong’s love affair with teaching began at Hosford Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, with instructors like Mr. Walter Stickel View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
same, but the scope has expanded from just research to helping business leaders take action to make America more competitive. The number of faculty involved has grown from 15 to almost 25, and a host of HBS alumni View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
- 23 Jan 2020
- News
Bringing Education Back Home
we attracted 180 students. By now we have over 1,200 students, from elementary school to college. “The way we modeled the school was about getting the students engaged in the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited by Craig McDonald. It is available at iTunes or wherever you get your favorite podcasts. For more information or to find... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
vocational schools are scheduled to open in the barrio. They will be the first public schools in a community where only about 60 percent of adults have finished secondary... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
was adopted by the World Bank and other institutions. Finally, in an effort that posed unique performance measurement challenges, 250 schools were either constructed or rehabilitated. "The outcome of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Feedback
network of all-girls public charter schools, which includes Girls Prep Lower East Side, this year celebrating its 10th anniversary....For the third consecutive year, 97 percent or more of fourth-grade scholars at Girls Prep Elementary... View Details
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
Illustration by Decue Wu HBS professor Deepak Malhotra recalls the moment he learned about the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, a tragedy that took the lives of 20... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Appalachian settlement schools that functioned as both educational institutions and community centers. After serving as an elementary school, a boarding school, View Details