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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
grassroots community organizations; the increasing tendency of businesses, large and small, to identify the inner city as an untapped market; a drop in urban crime rates; and the "unshackling" of inner cities from the entrenched and... View Details
- 17 Jun 2016
- News
Minding God’s Money
large loans and leases or navigating complicated tax regulations, I’m building a business foundation that supports our good works in the community.” Thomas currently works for Bishop T. D. Jakes, a nationally acclaimed religious leader... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Greenhill Family Gift Enhances Global Research
renovation, is one of the world’s most comprehensive business libraries. When it reopens in 2005, the Historical Collections Reading Room will be named in honor of the de Gaspé Beaubien family. A native of Montreal, Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien transformed Telemedia... View Details
- 26 Mar 2020
- News
Oprah Winfrey and the Power of Empathy
- 31 Mar 2017
- News
Turning Teachers into Leaders
foundations that support all of those entities. We help those organizations design and implement changes and initiatives that improve the work that they do every day, serving schools, teachers, and students. “One thing that I am focused... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Year-End Roundup: Dean's Award, Other Honors Conferred as Class of '98 Graduates
Tiller. The three were cited for their role in forming and leading the Harbus Foundation, a grant-making organization established under the auspices of the Harbus News Corporation to support local community organizations. Founded in 1997,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
real progress has been made over the last decade, thanks in part to funding from organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and efforts by pharmaceutical companies and governments to make drugs available at little or no... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
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
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
its campus, the School acted quickly to address another critical challenge, one underscored by the murder of George Floyd and other highly publicized incidents of racial injustice in the United States: How does HBS create a culture and an environment where all members... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
catastrophic flood destroy his house, leaving his family, including five kids, homeless. Yet Richard didn’t want a bailout. He told no one at work. HFE already had a foundation in place to help employees in such need, but Richard hadn’t... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
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
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Spangler Center Opens to Rave Reviews
seen as symbolic of Harvard’s openness to the local community as the University expands its presence on the Boston side of the Charles River. Completed after just 22 months of construction, this new HBS landmark was made possible by the... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
mentor. "At Minds Matter, we’ve created caring, high-expectations communities that don’t allow our students not to achieve," she says. “That’s what I want to see happen with Valiente as well.” She plans to someday run a private View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Ideas with Economic and Social Impact
Brussels, or leading an event at HBS for the European Foundation for Entrepreneurship Research, Wilson says she is grounded always by “a strong belief in the power of innovation and entrepreneurship as drivers of economic growth.” Impact... View Details
- 18 Apr 2011
- News
Capitalism Meets Conservation
world-class team of expedition guides and professional chefs, and enjoy the comforts of home-away-from-home accommodations. Patagonia Sur works in concert with non-profit conservation agencies, including the Patagonia Sur Foundation, also an Adams brainchild. Patagonia... View Details
- 10 May 2019
- News
Bringing Art to the People It Depicts
put many eyes on the artwork we collect because it helps the artist. This is where the Dean Collection and the Gordon Parks Foundation coming together makes sense. They have a plan where they see his legacy go, and we’re only a part of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
also benefits of community that a residential experience provides. But that raises the question about situations where people are going to commuter colleges purely to learn accounting, let’s say. So, if you want the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Palo Alto, CA Business management software, solutions, and services Lionel Bony (MBA 2006) Rocky Mountain Institute Snowmass and Boulder, CO Nonprofit research and educational foundation aiming to foster efficient and sustainable use of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Peak Earth?
quarterly letter to investors that has become a must-read not only for the financial community but also for anyone concerned about climate change, resource depletion, and the environment. Grantham, whose firm manages more than $100... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
relocating to Columbus, Ohio, where he had recently moved. Inspired by the difficulty he was having finding workers to renovate his house, he had a business idea that he wanted her to pursue. It was a referral agency for homeowners looking for service providers—similar... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young