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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
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
less a figure than Gerson Cohen, the head of The Jewish Theological Seminary, agreed to be my tutor. For six years we met once a week; that, too, was an extraordinary education. Then, in 1988, I read Rachel and Her Children by Jonathan Kozol, a shocking book about... View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
with little or no measurable result, SIBs offer a new way to address intractable societal problems. Here’s how the bonds work. Private investors purchase bonds that finance preventive programs run by nonprofit groups. If the programs, such as reducing View Details
- 18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit
rehabilitation projects that resulted in affordable housing, and finally took on historic rehabilitation projects by themselves, working in Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. Today, the company focuses on providing affordable housing for low-income families, seniors, and... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Carry It On
community-oriented philosophy and practices. At one point, it counted more than 600 nonprofit groups among its customers, as the bank aggressively supported environmental, HIV/AIDS, affordable housing, and homeless causes and issues. In... View Details
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
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 health issues, and homelessness are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
Boston Teamwork: From left, Chuck Eisenberg (MBA ’78), Arjuna Costa (MBA ’01), John Flanagan (AMP 96, 1985), Tom White (MBA ’69), Mark Alston-Follansbee, Marco Bitran (MBA ’03), and Charles Cassidy (MBA ’83). When Mark Alston-Follansbee, executive director of the... View Details
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In The Community | About
Academy Honan-Allston Library Jackson Mann Community Center New England Center for Homeless Veterans Oak Square YMCA West End House Boys & Girls Club Year Up * Locally focused (Greater Boston) FY24 figures. View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
achieve that. Then I think the impact of what she is doing for girls, for homeless women, through an NGO (Mijwan Welfare Society) she started. She is having great impact there. Homelessness is a huge, huge... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
momentous. Since we launched in December 2013, we have already seen five of our formerly homeless artists gain housing; not simply because of this new opportunity to earn income, but because being validated—being shown their talent is... View Details
- 03 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
9 Lessons from the Class of 2019
Robin Hood Army has been introduced into new countries including Indonesia, Nigeria, and Chile. Locally, he could be seen leading groups of students after section events to Harvard Square to deliver leftover food to homeless people in the... View Details
- 13 May 2014
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Willing Hands
a longtime passion of mine." In addition to helping to develop the first SRO (single-room occupancy) residence for homeless men in Charlotte, Spencer has served on the board of the Charlotte Housing Authority Transitional Families... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Community by Bert Berkley (MBA ’50) and Peter Economy (Wiley) Profiling many highly effective charitable organizations — for example, Kiva, Horizons for Homeless Children, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Stonyfield Farm Profits for the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
Before working for our aquarium, she had been homeless for eighteen months, sleeping with her son on the floor of his daycare center while she searched for employment. So what then was my takeaway? I learned the family culture our company... View Details
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Frank Spencer
trust. "Affordable housing in particular has been a longtime passion of mine." In addition to helping to develop the first SRO (single-room occupancy) residence for homeless men in Charlotte, Spencer has served on the board of... View Details
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
India's economy is enjoying robust growth with an expanding middle class. But the country, which has 22 official languages, also has its share of huge challenges: widespread poverty with 75 million homeless people, insufficient access to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
wide geographical scope in this comprehensive text. Mutual Rescue: How Adopting a Homeless Animal Can Save You, Too by Carol Novello (MBA 1991), with Ginny Graves Grand Central Publishing Novello profiles the transformational impact that... View Details
- 18 Jan 2022
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HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
homeless and getting support through the Covenant House of Georgia for their education. Others are adults who are juggling jobs and families, as well as the challenges of the pandemic. Of the 25 mentors, 18 are HBS alumni. The remaining... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
running a homeless shelter or providing job training, you can access the capital markets to help many more people.” Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui (MBA 1995) Cofounder and Managing Partner, IGNIA Waterwise: “From the first day I rowed, I felt... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 2002) Orpen Press John Travers uses the lens of his medical training to examine the ability of humanity—from the backstreets of Kolkata, through a hospital in Ghana, to the busiest emergency department in the world, a women’s prison, and a clinic serving the View Details