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- 30 Mar 2018
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
organization shares with other cities the three-pronged, neighborhood-based development strategy of mixed-income housing, a cradle-to-college education pipeline, and effective community wellness programs that helped to revitalize... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Feedback
This pioneering effort is now a multibillion-dollar industry. —Donn Walklet (MBA 1976) via alumni.hbs.edu Community from Cuisine Re: Doug Duda (MBA 1985) Food is love, and love drives consumer behavior. As the developed world becomes... View Details
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Book Smart
but also to develop reading, language, and comprehension skills. The data the organization collects—e.g., what’s interesting to young readers and how they access those books—is then shared with its partner organizations and publishers, to... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
Personal financial futures, and those of the generations that follow, are considered in every acquisition. How does Granite Equity find success stories like Microbiologics among the many businesses that call Minnesota their home? Ask any senior leader—including... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
says, people throughout the business community are interested in diversity in the workplace and looking to scholars to guide their decision making. Studying the complex and multifaceted topic requires a group of investigators from a wide... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Power of Prayer
region. The Collective Banking Group is a national organization of African-American churches that agrees to conduct its business with partnering banks and encourages parishioners to do the same. The CBG was formed in 1993 by Reverend... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
team with 100 people, SVA partnered last year with 17 nonprofits focused on reducing economic and educational disadvantage among Australia’s neediest populations. Traill, who details his personal transformation and SVA’s rise in his new... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 11 Jan 2016
- News
Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources
Marie Schwartz (MBA 1985) is founder and CEO of TeenLife Media, which produces online and print directories of STEM, gap year, pre-college, overnight summer, and community service programs for students in grades 7 through 12. In this... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Research Brief: Hear Me Out
Image by Lincoln Agnew Image by Lincoln Agnew It’s usually not hard to spot the extroverts in the office—or anywhere else. The butterflies of any social gathering, extroverts tend to restore their energy levels by being around other people. But for all their... View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
to change. The discussion also featured guest panelists: Yasmin Cruz Ferrine, General Partner of Visible Hands VC, and Glynn Lloyd, Executive Director at The Foundation for Business Equity. Through their respective organizations, these... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
homelessness. But the affordable housing problem is especially acute in urban areas, where entire tranches of the workforce—teachers, laborers, first responders, restaurant and transit workers, for example—are squeezed out of their View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
Waldroop, the former codirector of MBA Career Development Programs at HBS who is a principal and cofounder of Peregrine Partners of Brookline, Massachusetts. “You need to familiarize yourself with the hierarchy. Who has the power and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
for long-term grant commitments) encompassed investments in irrigation and roads, community services, and the farmer-training program cited by Bloom. To qualify for funding, MCC partner countries must meet a... 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 2010
- News
Students Reach Out to Haiti
Several student relief efforts sprang up in the wake of February’s earthquake in Haiti. Partners In Health, which has been working in the country for over twenty years, was the beneficiary of choice for many of the first-year section... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Above: Cummings in the iconic Fisher Building, known as “Detroit’s largest art object.” Cummings and his partners are redeveloping the 28-story landmark. A trip through downtown Detroit with Peter Cummings (OPM 13, 1988) is part urban... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
partner with NGOs like CARE International and Fauna & Flora International. We’ve moved from a paternalistic to a participatory approach to community development and social investment. Despite those efforts,... 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 and grounds. "This is a great way for HBS to get involved in the community," said Kim Decker, an HBS View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
went on to serve as deputy project manager for the $200 million renovation of Grand Central Terminal as a vice president with LaSalle Partners from 1994 to 1996. In 2012, the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art recognized his work... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
employee gifting are endless. We take a lot of pride in partnering with companies like Staples, Microsoft, and Bain & Co; we even just partnered with HBS. One of our Boston artists, Allen Chamberland, who... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Pooling resources to tackle India's social challenges
Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992), former chairman of Microsoft India, left the corporate world to launch Social Venture Partners (SVP) India, which brings together concerned citizens to solve economic and social problems through venture... View Details