From HBS Student to Case Protagonist: Risking It All for Impact - Guillermo "Billy" Jaime скачать в хорошем качестве

From HBS Student to Case Protagonist: Risking It All for Impact - Guillermo "Billy" Jaime

It’s rare to attend Harvard Business School as a student and even rarer to later become the subject of two HBS case studies. Billy Jaime did both. While enrolled in the Owner/President Management (OPM) program, his work building MIA, a for-profit social enterprise delivering affordable housing at scale stood out so strongly that renowned HBS professor Linda Applegate wrote two cases on his journey. What makes Billy’s story extraordinary is not just the scale - over 70,000 homes built across rural Mexico - but the risk he took at the very beginning. He left a fast-rising corporate career at Cemex, voluntarily giving up roughly 75% of his income at a time when he had a one-year-old child at home. Without financial security or guarantees, he bet on a belief: that profit and purpose could coexist. MIA’s model blends family savings, government funding, NGO partnerships, and guided self-construction, allowing families excluded from formal credit to own dignified housing. Billy shares hard-earned lessons on ethical negotiation with governments, refusing corruption, betting on volume over margins, and continuously sharpening judgment through education. The conversation reveals leadership rooted in conviction, courage, and responsibility, not comfort.