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- Portrait Project
Sabina Robinov
My mother passed away when I was nine. As the oldest child, I spent my childhood taking care of my three young siblings while my dad worked tirelessly to provide for us. At an early age, my priorities became clear. I quickly learned to...
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Assaf Harlap
Too overweight to ever be chosen for football practice, uninspired by school, dealing with a family divorce, and spending several unforgettable days in a bomb shelter — sweating and shivering in my gas mask during the Gulf War — my View Details
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Sue Yang
lifelong friendships, welcoming communities, and new career possibilities. They also found an abundance of resources to enrich my childhood on little means – I grew up a young and happy denizen of its public museums, libraries, and...
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Karibu Nyaggah
Frolicking in the sun. Puddle-jumping in the rain. Teasing my sisters. Feasting on dessert. Sipping tea. Family vacations on white sandy beaches. This was my childhood in Kenya where at school, a diverse curriculum of the arts, math,...
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- 18 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew
remote now, in different parts of the country. Olivia’s apartment has become a 3D printing factory (we’re up to three 3D printers in her childhood bedroom), running almost 24/7. Our testing has gone virtual, with face-to-face interviews...
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Foluke Otudeko
When I was six I contracted childhood measles and went blind for a number of days. As a result, I learned to truly appreciate the gift of sight and even beyond that the importance of vision. Over the years, I discovered there are two...
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Brendan Sullivan
ourselves. They inspired us to work to improve the lives of others even, and perhaps especially, when to do so is daunting. Twenty-five years later, I continue to care for the elderly. But now they are my patients, and all too often, their expressions reveal suffering...
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Brian Elliot
address global poverty. Our world is far too rich with resources for billions to go hungry. "And if not now, when?" Two years ago, a falling telecom cable struck my head and nearly took my life. I don't know where I'll be standing when the next cable falls....
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- 2016
- Case
Denver Public Schools 2015: Innovation and Performance?
By: Michael Tushman, Colin Maclay and Kerry Herman
- Portrait Project
Nneka Ezeigwe
lucky, mostly, but a big part of me wishes I had the choice to grow up in the land of my birth, wishes I had the choice to attend high school and university with childhood friends, wishes I had the choice to start my career close to...
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Felipe Núñez
that you have an army of friends with you that will teach you how to operate your parachute and land with as much grace as humanly possible. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? Funny. What is your favorite childhood...
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- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
http://people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/Investor_Sentiment_JFE_Article_In_Press.pdf Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior Authors:F. Gino and S. Desai Publication:Journal of Personality and Social...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Domingo Garcia-Huidobro
time and I dreamed about seeing them closer. I still encourage my nieces and nephews to become astronauts. What is your favorite childhood memory? Being the youngest of a large family, alone time with my mom was very scarce. I loved that...
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Carl Petty
I look at the rest of my life as one big bonus round. The decade I spent flying fighters in the Navy was a childhood dream come true – more than I ever could have asked for. But I left the Navy feeling an obligation placed on me by...
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- March–April 2022
- Article
School Choice in Chile
By: Jose Correa, Natalie Epstein, Rafael Epstein, Juan Escobar, Ignacio Rios, Nicolas Aramayo, Bastian Bahamondes, Carlos Bonet, Martin Castillo, Andres Cristi, Boris Epstein and Felipe Subiabre
Centralized school admission mechanisms are an attractive way of improving social welfare and fairness in large educational systems. In this paper, we report the design and implementation of the newly established school choice system in Chile, where over 274,000...
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Keywords:
Early Childhood Education;
Secondary Education;
Middle School Education;
Family and Family Relationships;
Welfare;
Chile
Correa, Jose, Natalie Epstein, Rafael Epstein, Juan Escobar, Ignacio Rios, Nicolas Aramayo, Bastian Bahamondes, Carlos Bonet, Martin Castillo, Andres Cristi, Boris Epstein, and Felipe Subiabre. "School Choice in Chile." Operations Research 70, no. 2 (March–April 2022): 1066–1087.
- August 30, 2022
- Article
School Choice Increases Racial Segregation Even When Parents Do Not Care About Race
By: Kalinda Ukanwa, Aziza C. Jones and Broderick L. Turner Jr.
This research examines how school choice impacts school segregation. Specifically, this work demonstrates that even if parents do not take the racial demographics of schools into account, preference differences between Black and White parents for other school...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Race;
Policy;
Early Childhood Education;
Middle School Education;
Secondary Education
Ukanwa, Kalinda, Aziza C. Jones, and Broderick L. Turner Jr. "School Choice Increases Racial Segregation Even When Parents Do Not Care About Race." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, no. 35 (August 30, 2022).
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Pursuing a passion
Michelle Crames and Jeff Norton (both MBA ’ 03) of a company called Lean Forward Media. “Michelle and Jeff discovered they shared a childhood passion for a series of books called Choose Your Own Adventure, which allowed readers to select...
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Josh Latson
realized that I had not done much – my time had been spent building myself up and contributing little to the world around me. I thought again of those words to be etched in stone and my childhood worries soon returned. "Here lies a...
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- 16 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Shekeyla Caldwell Sandore: Why 'A Name Like Mine' Matters
inclusive and respectful. Tell us about your book, A Name Like Mine. The book is a true story; it is my childhood experience mixed with my adult understanding. It’s the story of a little girl who loves her name until other people tell her...
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Storytelling: A Method for Assessing Children's Creativity
By: B. A. Hennessey and T. M. Amabile
Keywords:
Creativity;
Measurement and Metrics;
Early Childhood Education;
Research;
Performance Evaluation
Hennessey, B. A., and T. M. Amabile. "Storytelling: A Method for Assessing Children's Creativity." Journal of Creative Behavior 22, no. 4 (December 1988): 235–246.