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- 18 Oct 2023
- News
Spreading the Words
and their friends and families, uses tablets and educational games to teach math, English, and local languages at schools. The organization also sets up micro schools—one-room digital schoolhouses in communities that lack the requisite infrastructure, such as refugee... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
movement. “Let’s look for evidence,” she says, drawing them back to the document each has in hand. She’s hoping they’ll discover the statistics in Exhibit 4 showing the divide between New York’s rural and urban communities. One student... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
Photography by Craig Hall Like many people who work for change in struggling urban neighborhoods, John Majors (MBA 2000) believes that high-quality education for all children is a vital link to future success. He’s also convinced that... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
York after graduating from college. Then, in 1988, Ferguson and Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990) founded Urban Profile, a lifestyle magazine for young African-American professionals. “We didn’t consider printing costs or subscribers,”... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
but have accounted for over half of combat casualties in recent conflicts. Most of those occur in close, urban combat, as service members go building by building in search of hidden threats. “We hear things like, ‘This product made a... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a high-quality urban institution, to serving on the Virginia Council of Higher Education, to funding the Batten Center for Entrepreneurship at UVA's Darden School of Business. Batten's biggest challenge these days, he says, is to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
family-run Indian conglomerate. Kahn, who worked for agrichemical giant Syngenta AG and knew the industry well, agreed to have a look. The subsidiary, Godrej Agrovet, had expanded beyond its core business of animal feed in recent years, entering poultry processing,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
For Education Reform, PELP Is on the Way
“Leading and managing in the complex and dynamic environment of an urban K–12 school system is an incredibly difficult challenge,” observes HBS Dean Kim B. Clark. “One of the toughest problems is that although there are many excellent... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
At an early age, William D. Jones (MBA '89) learned about the fragility of a stable urban community. From their home in the Skyline Hills section of San Diego, he and his family watched their neighborhood gradually decline as businesses... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
“A National System of Income Supplementation”
Richard America’s analysis of the crippling legacy of racial discrimination in the United States was underscored by a study released last summer. In the wake of a spate of riots in urban America in the 1960s, a federal government... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Elevator Pitch: Bridging the Gap
Anas Aljumaily (MBA 2017) Elian Pres-Gurwits (MBA 2018) Cofounders, Gently Concept: Focused on urban markets, Gently is a last-mile delivery service that uses predictive analytics, electric trucks, and “nano-fulfillment” centers to provide sustainable, affordable... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Air Time
immigrant Mom past the fact that I’m (still) not a doctor.” not enough to get my immigrant Mom past the fact that I’m (still) not a doctor.” Cited (photo by CL Media/iStock) (photo by CL Media/iStock) “About 30 percent of the traffic in most View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- News
Maximum Cities
Growing up in Calcutta, Delhi, and Bombay, HBS Dean Nitin Nohria experienced urban life at its most extreme — cities so full of people and traffic that it was impossible to imagine they could grow any larger. At a conference on View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Bart Harvey: Opportunities for Others
instrumental in getting Congress to pass the highly successful low-income housing tax credit program. The resident-led revitalization effort taking place in Sandtown-Winchester, one of the Foundation's sixteen core projects nationally, epitomizes the dreams and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
Lee For Jonas Lee (MBA ’93) and his investment firm, Redbrick Partners, the purchase, refurbishment, rental, and maintenance of hundreds of low-cost, single-family urban homes represent a terrific, overlooked market opportunity. “It’s a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home Sweet Home
TERWILLIGER: Workforce-housing shortages can hurt urban economies. Photo Courtesy Habitat for Humanity In June, Ron Terwilliger (MBA ’70) was named Housing Person of the Year by the nonpartisan National Housing Conference. With almost... View Details
Keywords: 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
- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
capital campaign and expansion of the nonprofit organization’s programs, which include science education, character development, and summer learning opportunities for 6,500 local adolescents annually. A key initiative is a multiyear experiential learning program for... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Creation of parks connects people to nature and each other
grasslands, for example—the Trust does it all, from inner-city parks to the wilderness of Alaska. This kind of conservation can require some complicated business deals; Rogers, a former urban developer, likes the art of closing. The Trust... View Details