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- 13 Nov 2020
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A Passion for Education
parents. The Robert L. Ryan Fellowship has supported 18 students since Ryan launched the fellowship in 2004. Providing funding for future generations of MBA students is a fitting way for Ryan to recognize the value of education that his View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
Another area that we’re interested in is how parents should think about these things with their kids. How should we think about teaching our kids about time and money so that they make decisions that science says are good for them? What...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled
students, Khan wants parents to feel “Oh, I can do this. This isn’t impossible.” Today, Khan Academy usage is up about 250 percent, student and teacher registration rates are six times higher than normal, and View Details
- 30 Sep 2022
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Scaling Hope
son’s life and D’Antonio’s. Today, both men work in the addiction treatment industry. D’Antonio’s son, now with more than six years continuous sobriety, is trained as a peer recovery coach, supporting others struggling with addiction. D’Antonio, trained as a View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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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...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 26 Jul 2018
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Running the Numbers
field where we all have great passion.” Lessons from Coaches At home in a Boston suburb not far from Gillette Stadium, Gelman and her wife, Corbin Petro, CEO of Benevera Health, juggle a busy schedule of work and parenting their two young...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2000
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Vivek Ranadivé
emotional difficulty of attending the faraway university, Ranadivé persevered, and in 1975 he arrived in Cambridge with fifty dollars in his pocket. He credits his parents for their support of his plans. "My family comes from a tradition...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Making a World of Difference
their father ran successful textile and real estate businesses. Both parents believed in the importance of moral values, and in the fourth grade, the twins began studying at the Ethical Culture Society's Fieldston School. "Each week we'd...
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- 01 Nov 2016
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Paving the Way to College
Harvard-Westlake. I started thinking about all the low-income kids and inner-city kids in Los Angeles whose parents who couldn’t help them go to private school, take them on trips around the country, give them SAT prep, and help with...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Art Collecting’s New Egalitarianism
Alsace-Lorraine—birthplace of the Art Nouveau movement in France—Weidner began collection after his parents gave him a small ceramic piece for his 23rd birthday. “Art is something that has been part of my environment since I was born,” he...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Working to improve California's public education system
is that we believe every child in California should have access to a high-quality education,” she says, “and the reason that has not happened is because there is not the political will in Sacramento. Parents and community members are so...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
people in regions that are in lockdown.” The team is interested in partnering with governments needing assistance with scaling up local COVID-19 testing capacity. MAY 8 As a student at HBS, Kayla Lebovits (MBA 2019) launched Bundle to help working View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
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Educating the Whole Student
the typical school admits students at age five, The Primary School enrolls students as close to birth as possible. “We know the majority of brain development happens in the first few years of life,” Liu explains. In the future, she hopes to begin providing View Details
- 05 May 2022
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Lesson Plans
into a digital platform that not only offers video lessons, but educational tools and tests for teachers, students, and parents through its Khan Academy Districts program, which at last count was in use by more than 280 districts across...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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A Silent Workplace Crisis
thirties, restructuring the marketing organization for a large regional bank, and my husband, Ray Benvenuti (MBA 1986), and I had two children under seven. At that time, I had no inkling of what would be required to juggle the needs of two dying View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
discovers a top-secret parenting manual, it’s kids versus grownups in this kooky, illustrated middle-grade thriller with nonstop, seat-of-your-pants action that will delight fans of Jarrett Lerner and Stuart Gibbs. When tween boy FP...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Chai Ling
the West, Chai hopes a more favorable political climate will allow her to return home. Chai's leadership and organizational abilities were honed early. When she was ten, her mother and father, both military doctors, put her in charge of her two younger siblings and a...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell
watershed events in 1992 provoked further introspection for Cassell: his father died, and, several months later, he and his wife, Bernadine, became the adoptive parents of a baby boy, Alex. "As these events unfolded," says Cassell, "I...
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Eileen McCluskey
- 05 May 2023
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Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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Management Update Launched
position, in 1994. Following that assignment, he became editor for business development at the parent company, Time Inc., identifying and assessing magazines and other media properties the parent company...
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Judith A. Ross