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Madam C. J. Walker
known, not only for its hair care products, but also for its extensive agent system, in which well-trained black women traveled throughout black neighborhoods across the United States, promoting the products. Madame Walker was widely... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
discovered while doing fieldwork in São Paulo, Brazil, in some countries, proximity to one’s neighborhood can be a more influential factor when deciding where to shop. During FIELD 2, part of the Required Curriculum course Field Immersion... View Details
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Hayling Price
sector "that would enable economic opportunity and mobility in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty." But while his career experiences in the nonprofit sector were rewarding, they were also limiting. "I found that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Linking Donors, Students
guests. “I am inspired and empowered by your philanthropy, and I am determined to offer a strong return on your investment,” she said, citing her future goal of launching a nonprofit arts and sports center in the Brooklyn neighborhood... View Details
William C. Norris
An electrical engineer by trade, Norris pioneered Control Data Corporation (CDC) into a leading mainframe computer maker, giving IBM heavy competition during the 1970s and 1980s. Norris was also a great philanthropist, building CDC factories in depressed View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
real estate partnerships, and he brings the practical perspective of an investor to the matter. Converting a neoclassical building in a neighborhood with the sort of retail and cultural amenities residents clamor for often makes financial... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Push the system to see where it breaks
teaching engineering in the inner city in Washington, DC. It’s literally one of the worst schools in the nation, in the middle of three housing projects, where the neighborhood kids go. “So now I think it’s time to go into the central... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Good Luck Charm
Far from the Great White Way, the Big Apple also shines brightly, in the neighborhood arts-and-culture scene that thrives throughout the city’s boroughs. Those lively goings-on are often made possible through the good work of Lisa Quiroz... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
@Soldiers Field
Twenty-five students from Brighton High School toured the Chao Center construction site as part of the Urban Neighborhood Design Alliance’s City/Build project, which teaches students about design and engineering. On campus to kick off the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Delivering HBS-style training for teachers
teachers. “Almost all NAATE participants report improved classroom practice, more impact outside the classroom with their peers and school leaders, and a renewed commitment to classroom teaching,” says Klemmer, whose observations of a charter school in a tough New York... View Details
- Portrait Project
Erica Hunt
Learn to say, "So what, that's just me"...and mean it. I never liked being the only kid in my neighborhood who went to Catholic schools...When I went away to college, many people questioned why I moved so far away... At work, I... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
stereotype and expand their image of what’s possible for them.” Since 2014, Owusu-Kesse has served as COO of the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), a path-breaking New York nonprofit known for its multifaceted approach to ending intergenerational poverty, in a 100-block... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
David Motley (MBA 1988) grew up in Lincoln-Larimer, a struggling neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End. He remembers the soot on the snow in the cold winters of the 1960s. And if he looked south, toward the Monongahela River, he could see... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 14 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation
write a check to community residents or a small neighborhood organization to do the work. And that, indeed, is what many companies do. A great deal of business participation in social sector problems derives from the classic model of... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Gabriel Handel | About
include strategic and financial planning, technology planning, capital projects, design and use of the campus, major events and convening initiatives (e.g., Commencement, DIALOGUE), community engagement, neighborhood and civic affairs,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
When being a good neighbor means economic development
stakeholders in what happens here,” Baer says. “A project such as this could create a vibrant new neighborhood and be of strong economic benefit to the region.” (Published April 2014) View Details
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Cindy Kellogg
scuba diving, even if that earns me an eccentric reputation at my neighborhood swimming pool. When the only sound is that of my own breath and the only sight is deep blue, I have no choice but to focus on that floating feeling that makes... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
tightly to volatile gas prices and the faltering auto industry. From a resident’s point of view, life in a city with inconsistent municipal services and simmering racial tensions could be even more tenuous. While many suburbs prospered, some city View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Vertically Inclined
Kamran (“Tom”) Elghanayan (MBA ’68), who arrived in the United States from Iran when he was five years old, helped found the Rockrose Development Corporation, a New York City firm with a reputation for building residential towers in View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Artful Contributions
the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (October 30, 2005). The second “pillar” is John Wieland (MBA ’64), a past chairman and current member of the board. As chairman of John Wieland Homes & Neighborhoods and with 35 years of construction... View Details