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  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Social Investing Pioneers

simple enough. Investors fund nonprofit social ventures whose interventions result in a measurable social benefit as well as a financial savings to the government. (Government saves money, for example, when fewer people are homeless or... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • Portrait Project

Leslie Feinzaig

the floor, desperate. The boy had lost all hope. His father was expecting money. That is the saddest memory I hold. I still aim to help alleviate poverty. But mostly, I just dream of a homeless little boy, sipping his hot chocolate and... 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
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Motivation through hard knocks

“turbulent” upbringing in South Central Los Angeles has enhanced his ability and interest in motivating others. “I’ve seen both sides of the equation,” he says, explaining that he has experienced homelessness and moved around a lot in his... 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
  • Portrait Project

Tathagata (TAT) Sarkar

different aspects of my life, I idolize different persons based solely on their influence on me in that aspect. My idols include: a homeless flutist, high-school statistics teacher, self-made billionaire, college senior who pursued his... View Details
  • 11 Dec 2019
  • News

A Righteous Path

assisting, there are three others in the New York area without legal help. The need is staggering, but the path to meeting that need effectively would be familiar to any business leader, says Leimsider. Leimsider began his career at the New York City Department for... View Details
Keywords: April White; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 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
  • 14 Jan 2022
  • Blog Post

Embracing Activism for Social Change

available to assist when calls come in,” Mendu says about the first priority of the initiative. “Feedback was overwhelmingly positive.” The second part was creating a crisis intervention team to partner with police patrols in neighborhoods where substance abuse, mental... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Brian Sykes

frustration as they recall a recent trip to my hometown. All too familiar with how this scene plays out, I ready myself for a discussion of the city’s much publicized faults. I cringe when I hear stories of frightening encounters with the mentally ill. Sprawling View Details
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Members of the Military | MBA

promote camaraderie, and to raise awareness and support for the military on the Harvard Business School campus. Each year the AFAA hosts a number of events including the AFAA Career Fair, Veteran's Day Celebration, Campaign for the New England Shelter for View Details
  • 09 Nov 2022
  • News

Public Good

head” were with Chapman—her Uncle Billy also struggled with homelessness—she found it difficult to turn down the opportunity to lead United Way Miami: “I thought this could be a way to have a greater impact. The homeless community is a... View Details
Keywords: nonprofit management; social enterprise; leadership; United Way; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 17 Feb 2015
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

School. "There is this real squeeze on certain parts of the community—housing prices are out of sight, the middle class is leaving, and homelessness is a serious problem. This is in the face of great prosperity for many technology... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • 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
  • 10 Sep 2020
  • News

The Business of Access

her business know-how—revenue generation and growth in the private sector—and apply it to nonprofits rooted in social services. She was brought aboard to assist San Mateo–based Shelter Network implement a merger with another homelessness... 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 Dec 2015
  • News

Design Thinking: Hands-On Learning At The Harvard Innovation Lab

regulating fishing, while another team worked with homeless people to create artwork that would generate income. “The students are fantastic,” says Datar. “A key aspect of the experience is learning to connect with people who are... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Mickey Millar

roach. Each incident left a stain on my spirit. While studying social welfare at HKS, I worked part-time so my pregnant sister wouldn't become homeless after she lost her job while on bed rest. During pharmaceutical case discussions at... View Details
  • 22 Jun 2023
  • News

Finding Her Place

“everybody knows Uncle Billy here at Chapman Partnership,” she says. Hudson has brought both her personal experience with the plight of homelessness and her business knowledge to the organization. Those combined perspectives led her to... View Details
  • Profile

Inessa Lurye

Before graduate school, Inessa Lurye, through consulting work at McKinsey, helped the Harlem Children's Zone nearly double the number of children it served. She worked with the Washington DC's mayor's office to reduce street homelessness... View Details
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