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Harvard Business School

administration, members of AASU in its early years succeeded in dramatically raising the number of African American students (27 African Americans graduated in 1970 and 58 in the following year). They also created the impetus for increased fellowship funding, courses... View Details

01 Jun 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting

benefit the environment as well as a company's bottom line," Rangan adds. Good examples are the early childhood literacy initiative of PNC, a financial services organization based in Pittsburgh, and the 10,000 Women initiative of Goldman Sachs, which facilitates a... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Sep 2024
News

Far-Reaching Impact

Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

26 Jul 2018
News

Running the Numbers

social media,” Gelman explains. Several years ago, the Patriots relied on similar analytics to re-invent its marketing to women, launching successful merchandising, a new online content section called Patriots Lifestyle, and social media initiatives to address the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

18 Apr 2022
News

Book Smart

States, because we’ve brought all of the tools we’ve built to connect with underserved communities around the globe to populations right here, in our own backyard,” notes Risher. Thus far, Worldreader has reached 19 million readers in 48... View Details

14 Apr 2021
News

The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)

about unlocking the lessons we learned through Big Brothers Big Sisters to instill structure and discipline to underserved children at scale. I know how my relationship with Austin impacted my life, and Austin observed, with his own son,... View Details

24 Apr 2019
Blog Post

Meet the Latino Student Organization

elevates underserved and underrepresented communities. As Co-President of LASO, I’m looking forward to growing our thriving Latino familia on campus – developing sustainable models for the HBS community to give back and develop more... View Details

13 Nov 2020
News

Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19

doctors to screen for COVID-19 in underserved and refugee populations. Jordan Lebovic (MD/MBA 2020) was the company’s chief research officer until he began his medical residency in June. “The creative problem-solving the i-lab fosters is... View Details

12 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 12, 2006

initiatives goes to organizations that are structured to support specific groups of recipients, often with sophisticated solutions. Such organizations rarely reach the broader populations that could be served by simpler alternatives. There is, however, an effective way... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Mar 2021
News

Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education

helping underserved communities, we had to look at ourselves. Most of our board is old white guys, so we’re asking, what are we doing to appeal to minority alumni? Are we serving nonprofits that deal with racism? Are we missing something... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2018
News

Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders

funding, Hofmann says. “We hear this a lot from founders in underserved communities. You don’t have to be networked on the West Coast to get an application to us.” Similar logic applies to racial and ethnic diversity. In May, Republic... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

20 Jun 2016
News

Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues

financial valuation just like one would as a venture capitalist, but there’s an overlay of impact. And what I define as impact is that the companies we invest in are focused on providing products and services to underserved populations in... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

06 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

feel that the products are not made for their unique skin tones. In response to this unhappy and underserved market, two African American HBS alumnae created a beauty company with products specifically for Black and other women of color.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 May 2019
Blog Post

Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent

deliver to their investors. That’s where our clients see a differentiated product.” Identifying New Verticals As Prokanga continues to grow, their team is constantly identifying new markets that are underserved from a recruiting... View Details

22 Dec 2016
Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

but needs some credit support. This allows women-owned small businesses, minority-owned small businesses, and others in underserved geographies to get credit even if the private sector market is not fully providing access. As my co-author... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

19 Apr 2017
Blog Post

7 Ways MBA Students Use Baker Library

day for me almost always involves finding a resource or information to answer a student’s question. This semester I had the opportunity to work closely with students in a new HBS course called Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship. Students were charged with... View Details

23 May 2019
News

Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995

to be the best version of themselves. Indeed, Rodríguez’s colleagues at Gentera—a financial services firm focused on underserved communities—can’t imagine running the firm without his involvement. Working in various capacities over the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

05 Jan 2017
Blog Post

Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

the integrated management toolkit I needed to advance equity across underserved communities. I chose HBS and the Kennedy School because the experience offers peerless, highly integrated preparation for management across government,... View Details

22 Apr 2021
News

Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship

Appalachian Community Capital, a small business lender for underserved communities; and Genevieve Martin, Executive Director of Dave’s Killer Bread Foundation, which works on second-chance employment for individuals impacted by the... View Details