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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
to kill us,” he says. Support and Suppress Back in the flow of traffic, Timken explains that “our job is to both support and suppress — give help to the people who need it, while getting the hard-core bad people off the street.” In addition to his clinic work, Timken... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
to qualified students from Boys’ Town Home, a nonprofit organization serving orphans and disadvantaged youth in Singapore. “A lot of the world champions at Evolve began under the exact same circumstances of extreme poverty,” says... View Details
- 28 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Latina Women in Leadership: Shirley Verónica Cardona (MBA 2012)
program for youth living in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. This work was deeply gratifying, and it also helped me realize that in order to be most effective and drive scalable impact, I needed to build strategic, analytical, and... View Details
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
model for employers to engage high school students in youth apprenticeships. And the growth of “education as a benefit” models like Guild Education provides good evidence for the potential for employers to integrate postsecondary access... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
first of 15 Jr. NBA programs focused on youth development; in 2017, it opened NBA Academy Africa, one of four NBA Academy programs around the world that features elite training for high school-age prospects, in Senegal. Yet fulfilling the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
on education, youth development, and economic self-sufficiency. SGP's track record speaks for itself, having helped to launch or scale many of Massachusetts's most effective social ventures, several of which have gone national. In the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
Noting that many urban youth lacked tech skills, she and her husband Derek Pearson launched Code Fever, a company offering training camps and hackathons for young people, and transformed a vacant building in a historically Black... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
devote a good deal of attention to Grove's childhood, boyhood, and youth because I think an appreciation of the first two decades of his life is essential to understanding his development as a manager. Until 1945, anti-Semitism placed... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
inspired the PBS documentary Built to Last?. RAF initiatives include the Buyer’s Guide to Resilient Homes, Building Resilience Index with World Bank/IFC, and Resilience Youth Network. Some predict that a “Great Repricing” looms ahead for... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Short Takes
Health, Carolyn Celebucki, and Gregory N. Connolly, both of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, point out, prior studies provide only indirect evidence that magazine advertising targets youth markets. First, since most... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- Web
In The Community | About
Remedy Novobeing Sweet Teez Bakery MBA FIELD Course: Scaling Minority Businesses (partial) Archipelago Strategies Group (ASG) Caan Fence, Inc. City Fresh Foods, Inc. The Panther Group Stop and Compare Supermarket Career Development Support The School provides local... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Net Positive
At LOVB, designing a “community-up” volleyball ecosystem, from youth teams to a professional league. (photo by Melissa Golden) Volleyball is the number-one sport for girls in the United States by participation, yet unlike soccer and basketball, it hasn’t had an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
Braterman: The man to call when it comes to selling phones. Photo courtesy Russell Braterman When it comes to selling mobile phones to a youthful market, Phones 4u’s marketing director Russell Braterman (MBA ’00) favors ad spots during... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
Swearengin and a friend cofounded the Downtown Giants, Manhattan’s only public youth football team. Many of Swearengin’s HBS classmates provided annual support for the Downtown Giants’ scholarship program, which allowed children from all... View Details
- 10 Mar 2016
- News
Can Doug Lemov Save US Soccer?
Illustration by John Cuneo Illustration by John Cuneo Teaching guru Doug Lemov (MBA 2004) is taking his teaching talents to the pitch. Profiled in the March issue of The Atlantic, Lemov was contacted by US Soccer in 2010 in an effort to improve their View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Giving Kids Tech Tools to Make an Impact
Amy Kadomatsu (MBA 1998) believes every student can be an innovator and use technology as a force for good. As chair of the board of directors at Mouse, a youth development nonprofit that empowers students to create with technology to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
from the hundreds of youth and adult state associations, clubs, and professional leagues, offering his comprehensive platform to transform soccer in America: investing more in world-class national teams, growing participation at the View Details
- Career Coach
Betsy Edwards
as the Career & Professional Development liaison with the Social Enterprise Initiative and Healthcare Initiative in support of their MBA and alumni programs. Outside of work, Betsy serves on the Board of Directors and is the former Board President for View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Brandon Lovell (MBA 2020) Talks Growing Up in the South Bronx, Year Up, and the Value of a Supportive Community
Gerald Chertavian, places urban youth in corporate internships. After successfully completing his internship, Brandon was admitted into and graduated from New York University, he established his business, Movers with a Smile, and applied... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Helping one child led to improving the lives of thousands
Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) volunteered as a Big Brother and saw firsthand how urban youth suffered from a lack of job options. He wrote his HBS application essay about starting a program to connect those young adults with a growing need... View Details