community development - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Mar 2010
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Solving the Water Challenge

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01 Mar 2013
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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 majority of 20 economic,... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

of organizations and develops partnerships across the United States that fight racism by promoting social change and that create opportunities for advancement in the Black community. The ARF supports causes in four categories that are... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

27 May 2021
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History’s Future

environmental sustainability and inclusive growth. “This is a cultural landscape. We don’t want to get ahead of ourselves in development and ruin all this heritage,” he says. For AlMadani, that means a commitment to preserving the... View Details

Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2007
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Ideas against AIDS

Clawson, Jim Kralik, and John Galantic (all MBA ’90), he invited them to Thailand to help get its business community involved in rural economic development to battle poverty and prostitution. Clawson, who... View Details

Keywords: AIDS & HIV; activism; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

23 Apr 2018
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Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

leadership of the Costa Rica–based university in January 2017. To this most recent task, he brings his entrepreneurial mindset, global perspective, and firm belief in the power of young people to change the world. The innovative university focuses on View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

18 May 2015
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Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges

with the HBS US Competitiveness Project, Kanter convened a national summit at HBS that drew leaders from government, business, labor, technology, and community coalitions. Together, they worked on overcoming barriers that have prevented... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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No Place Like Home

housing is a problem that increasingly affects companies and employers, as well as the overall economy," says F. Barton Harvey (MBA '74), (see related story) chairman and CEO of the Enterprise Foundation, a nationwide housing and View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

10 Aug 2015
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A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges

Morales, who now serves as marketing and communications manager at Year Up in the Bay Area, and Michelle Smith-Howard, who worked as director of early learning at DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative and is now director of early childhood... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

30 Jan 2018
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Four Alumni Named as Presidential Leadership Scholars

2002), cofounder and CEO of Parsagen Diagnostics, an early-stage medical device company focused on women’s health The members of the 2018 class were selected based on their leadership growth potential and the strength of their personal leadership projects aimed at... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Revitalizing America

Faculty Opinion Illustration by Corbis/Image Zoo/Cargo Whatever the question—disaster relief, education, health care, foreign policy—national and community service is an answer. Organizing a full-time civilian service corps—the civilian... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

07 Sep 2021
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Growing Home

back.” DM: This is a lot to achieve in a relatively short amount of time. What sort of coalition or partnerships did you have to develop to achieve this? YH: We started with three groups of people. One is those people who are now living... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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Paul Scharfman

In a small, undercapitalized cheese manufacturing operation in rural Wisconsin, Paul Scharfman (AB 1976, MBA 1979) saw the opportunity to develop a variety of specialty cheeses that would appeal to the palates of the growing population of... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Retail

19 Jan 2016
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Electric Avenues

remake their communities for the digital age. Below, a look at how HBS alumni are helping to rewire the way the world thinks about its cities. Town Halls for All Getting your voice heard by local government is unnecessarily difficult,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Feb 2002
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Egawa Heads New Research Office in Japan

delighted to be taking an active part in the HBS community. "It's very refreshing to come back to the campus and see the progress the School is making in developing leading-edge research," she says. "I look forward to my part in building... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

28 Mar 2016
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The Alum Building a Brand New City in Panama

experience—bought the base and began building a new city. “It was a white canvas to develop from the beginning,” Gilinski told Forbes. Today, nearly 1,000 buildings stand in Panama Pacifico—a property five times the size of Central Park,... View Details

01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission

herd of elephants in Ghana? Working for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) might seem like a logical step, but Andrew Murphy (MBA ’07), director of strategy, research, and development at the WWF’s Markets Group, would disagree. He insists his... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna; Corporate Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

16 Jun 2019
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The Real Story of How Virginia Won Amazon’s HQ2

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14 Apr 2016
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Final OK for Science and Engineering Complex in Allston