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- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
displays, and insurance form services also contribute to an enhanced customer experience. Greenberg notes, "We're simply bringing in modern merchandising techniques to meet the needs of an underserved population." Take Good Care also...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Housing Solutions for the Urban Poor
portfolio of economically viable housing solutions to underserved populations, drawing on the expertise of sociologists, urban planners, architects, engineers, and policymakers. View a video of Mehra.
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- 07 May 2020
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Ensuring Student Equity
learning programs, food and other basic resources, and health services for more than 1,200 children each week in this underserved community. “We had to rethink the operation of our food pantry. We had to develop learning materials that...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 May 2013
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Brahmal Vasudevan, MBA 1997
for underserved children in the markets in which Creador operates in South and Southeast Asia. Vasudevan’s passion for education also extends to HBS, where he has established an endowed fund to support global research and provide...
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- 22 Jun 2023
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Book Smart
David Risher (MBA 1991) was on a family trip to Ecuador in the spring of 2009, volunteering and touring a local orphanage in Guayaquil, when he noticed a padlock on a nearby building. It turned out it was the local library—and no one was particularly keen on using it....
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- 27 Jul 2022
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Alumna-Led Reproductive Health Startup Raises $4.7 Million
products more accessible so we created a 1:1 model where we donate a supply of our own prenatal vitamins to underserved women here in the United States who lack access to high-quality prenatal care,” she tells Forbes. “To date, we’ve...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Outside-the-box innovation for off-the-grid energy
Andreas Jaegle (MBA 2014) and his Harvard University colleagues use the Harvard Innovation Lab as a co-development hub for their startup, elementa energy solutions, which brings low-cost electricity to the most underserved communities in...
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- 08 Oct 2020
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JPMorgan Chase Commits $30 Billion to Advance Racial Equity
Jamie Dimon (MBA 1982) Jamie Dimon (MBA 1982) This week, JP Morgan Chase announced that it would commit “an additional $30 billion over the next five years to provide economic opportunity to underserved communities, especially the Black...
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- 10 Sep 2020
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The Business of Access
technology. “Technology companies are acknowledging that they can play a major role in assisting the underserved and the disabled,” she says. “They understand that their work can help create independence, which enables dignity and...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Goldman Supports Case Method
from top business schools in emerging markets in 2000. Since then, more than 1,000 faculty from Latin America, China, Africa, and Central Europe have participated. Goldman’s support is part of its 10,000 Women initiative, which aims to bring business education to View Details
- 01 Aug 2013
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A Cure for Cold Storage
distribution a daunting process. That's the problem Vaxess seeks to address. The company is developing a way to store vaccines at room temperature using silk proteins, eliminating the need for refrigerated storage and allowing for wider distribution of immunizations to...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Student Benefits from Class of 2006 Fellowship
comes to HBS with a passion for education and three years of social enterprise experience. Most recently, she served as the new schools development associate at The SEED Foundation, a nonprofit that partners with urban communities to provide educational opportunities...
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- 11 Aug 2020
- News
Find Your Allies
for Educational Opportunity changed her mind. The program, which offers educational and career support to students from underserved communities, helped Harris realize something: she loved finance. “I was 19 years old and there I was,...
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- 18 Apr 2022
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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...
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- 01 Aug 2001
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Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
the organization as it has forged educational partnerships with numerous businesses and become the country's leading nonprofit resource for breast cancer information and education. NABCO is now a powerful force in patient advocacy, especially for medically View Details
- 23 May 2019
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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...
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Susan Young
- 02 Nov 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
regulatory dynamics were complicated and, after three years of trying to make it happen, it never got off the ground,” he says. Undeterred, Royster, who has three daughters, remained passionate about higher ed, especially for those View Details
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Jill Radsken
- 08 May 2012
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Screen Saver
tremendously exciting time.” In addition to offering open enrollment classes to children, teens, and adults, the JBFC provides (often at no cost) programs for students in underserved communities and at local correctional facilities....
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Courting the Poor
this merger as well as to lay out guidelines for future growth initiatives. Throughout this discussion issues of cultural fit for employees and customers as well as the limitations of the CEO’s charisma are investigated. Frei hopes that students will see the potential...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Better Care at Lower Cost
doctor’s attention, he explained. Innovations like MinuteClinic that reach previously underserved consumers or provide benefits to those overserved by doctor-based care have the potential to reshape the health-care industry, he added. The...
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