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- 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...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Yurt Man
company, HOMErgent, see as ideal for disaster relief and globally sustainable affordable housing. “For less than $2,000, we can provide better housing than what most people in the world already have,” Zwern...
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- 07 Feb 2017
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Shaping Singapore
didn’t take long, however, for Cheong to understand the challenges and opportunities afforded by urban planning’s broader scope, particularly in a land-constrained city-state like Singapore. “In architecture, you are only looking at a...
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- 08 Oct 2020
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JPMorgan Chase Commits $30 Billion to Advance Racial Equity
more tangible, meaningful way.” The release notes that the firm’s commitment will focus on promoting and expanding affordable housing and homeownership for underserved communities; growing Black- and...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices
public policy, and social challenges. In health care, for example, the dominant policy model assumes that access and affordability are the keys to improving care for the poor. In Ashraf’s view, “We can’t solve the challenges of global...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Kresge’s Afterlife
University’s associate manager of recycling and waste. “That’s especially true when recycling allows needy organizations to receive goods they couldn’t afford otherwise.” Below, we track a few of the donations to see where Kresge Hall...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Feb 2000
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William Jones: Builder with a Mission
believed that if CityLink did a good job creating public amenities, then the existing housing in the area - much of it dilapidated or overly dense for the local infrastructure - would become more desirable. He has seen that phenomenon...
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Thomas Frick
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Tools and Training for a “Wicked Problem”
the homeless transition to affordable housing, and expanding behavioral health services and substance abuse treatment programs are all part of the plan; when it comes to its implementation, however, Keller will draw on tactics he picked...
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homelessness
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
international regions, presented business plans for their start-ups to judges on Monday, April 25, during the final round of competition. On Tuesday, Rakhi Mehra (MBA '09), founder of micro Home Solutions, a social housing initiative for...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
When Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the faculty chair of HBS’s Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, was studying questions of gender and race in organizations in the 1980s, research into building an inclusive economy was “a...
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April White
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
product. You know that if you’re not happy, you can take your business somewhere else. You have status. You matter.” Asha Impact invests in a variety of businesses that have impact. Examples include Janaadhar, an affordable View Details
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
Facilitating private-sector progress while benefiting the taxpayers "Governments need to think more like partners, not order-givers," said Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Greg Bialecki. "Government can play an...
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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
throughout Massachusetts, creating some 4,200 affordable homes and more than 1,100 jobs. Colorful masks made by a community cultural center decorate the office walls, and there’s good news for a Monday morning: a coworker has brought in...
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- 23 Feb 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
Pittsburgher, the community leader and MacArthur Award recipient Bill Strickland. Motley, who believes affordable housing is a key part of Pittsburgh’s future, is one of three partners on a $20 million View Details
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April White
- 01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
the six-foot six-inch former Yale basketball player is conducting a whirlwind tour of the facility that houses Kettle Cuisine, Inc., the soup-making company Shafir has painstakingly nurtured since cofounding it in the mid-1980s. With...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
been knocking it out of the park for some time.” Harder, a former student of Moss’s, puts it this way: “I felt like Washington was a house on fire, and too many arsonists were being elected.” Representative Josh Harder (MBA/MPP 2014),...
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Deb Blagg
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
As the Nigeria-Biafra war raged around them, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994), her mother, and her brother made a dangerous dash for a better life. Huddled in the belly of a Portuguese cargo plane returning from delivering arms to the Biafran forces, Dyer remembers Nigerian...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
and suddenly, there's no doubt it's the 1990s: "Mr. Davis, how much money do you make? What kind of car do you drive? How many houses do you own?" It's a fact of life these days that when kids, or fans of any age, look upon a professional...
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Garry Emmons
- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
interacted with it...I wanted to take the chapel and make it a public space." Bob Ryan: The funeral home was in a very rundown building. If you segment the African American market, you had people who couldn’t really afford to pay for a...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
Understanding that for many prospective students the greatest barriers to attending graduate school are financial, HBS is taking proactive steps to make the MBA Program more affordable. The School has held tuition flat for the past five years, and in August 2022...
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Jennifer Gillespie