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- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
and share them with the world to inform new ways of attacking these perennial problems.” Dichter’s paternal grandparents escaped the Holocaust by fleeing from Poland to Shanghai and then to the United States; his father was born in Shanghai, his mother in Rio de...
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Julia Hanna
- Profile
Ann Chao
forward to in your career? I look forward to being a bridge between people and cultures - business and creative, the US and Asia. My dream since childhood has been to write stories that inspire people, and I love to see the spark in...
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Entertainment / Media
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Building a Village: Learning and Living at HBS - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 2017
- Case
Uncommon Schools (A): A Network of Networks
By: John J-H Kim and Sarah McAra
In 2013, Brett Peiser, CEO of the charter school management organization (CMO) Uncommon Schools, is reassessing the nonprofit’s strategy. For nearly 10 years, Uncommon had fulfilled its mission to bring high-quality education to students in low-income, urban areas...
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Charter Schools;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Teaching;
Talent Management;
Innovation;
Organization Structure;
Education;
Early Childhood Education;
Middle School Education;
Organizational Structure;
Performance Consistency;
Strategy;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Education Industry
Kim, John J-H, and Sarah McAra. "Uncommon Schools (A): A Network of Networks." Harvard Business Publishing Case, 2017. (Case No. PEL-079.)
- January 2005 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
Lean Forward Media
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Victoria Winston
Jeff Norton and Michelle Crames, the co-founders of Lean Forward Media, face several options for producing the world's first interactive DVD film for children. Their vision is to build a company whose products simultaneously entertain children, engage them actively in...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Early Childhood Education;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Management Practices and Processes;
Risk Management;
Partners and Partnerships;
Opportunities;
Creativity
Amabile, Teresa M., and Victoria Winston. "Lean Forward Media." Harvard Business School Case 805-063, January 2005. (Revised August 2006.)
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
Mark Twain in front of his childhood home in Hannibal, Missouri (photos courtesy of American Writers Museum) Before he arrived at HBS, Jay Hammer (MBA 1979) was pursuing a PhD in literature at Johns Hopkins. Daunted by the increasingly...
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Julia Hanna
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
accessible for future generations,” he says. For Coady, a DC resident who traces his interest in environmental protection to childhood summers spent exploring the wilderness of Upper Michigan, the Crow’s Nest preserve is the most personal...
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April White
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
financial services with the Capital Group Companies, attended the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, with some HBS friends. A believer since childhood in the power of storytelling on the big screen, Diamond was struck by the lack...
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Deborah Blagg
- 18 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Coming to HBS after Military Service
I had the opportunity to pursue a childhood dream of working as a ski instructor in Vail, Colorado - as well as participate in veteran specific pre-MBA programs in both investment banking and technology. These opportunities gave me a...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
course The Business World: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry Through Literature. Finding Your Religion offers guidance and inspiration to people who may harbor negative childhood associations with religion or feel daunted by the seeming...
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- 10 Oct 2014
- News
Chicago Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
team. “I owe much to HBS,” she continued, “my ability to start and build my own investment fund, to launch a nonprofit initiative in early childhood education, and to get an Illinois news organization off the ground. All of these...
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HBS Campaign
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Tech
experience has created this amazing sense of comradery for me, and I know once I graduate from HBS I’ll have a life-long, tight-knit network of professionals I can call friends. Anything else you would like to add? Outside of tech, I’m into physical fitness and...
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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
traveling to 140 countries with his wife, Elaine, a specialist in early childhood education, he made it a practice to spend time with people in poor areas before visiting with heads of state or ngos. “We learned a lot that those leaders...
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- 08 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leading With Curiosity: Mayowa Kuyoro (MBA 2015)
Exploration Kuyoro spent her childhood in Nigeria before continuing schooling in the U.K. After completing her degree in Engineering at the University of Warwick, she was eager to continue her education and study the intersection of...
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- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
in October, and texting everyone I knew about it. “There’s no way this is a real job,” I joked with my friends. You get paid to live and work in a national park? Doing management consulting? No way. As a native Californian and landscape photographer, so many of my...
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Nonprofit / Government
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
to social issues. Once he arrived, he dove into his required courses and new environment. That experience, however, was jolting—very little about the campus and culture were familiar, either from his low-income childhood or as an adult in...
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- 13 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leading With Curiosity: Mayowa Kuyoro (MBA 2015)
Exploration Kuyoro spent her childhood in Nigeria before continuing schooling in the U.K. After completing her degree in Engineering at the University of Warwick, she was eager to continue her education and study the intersection of...
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All Industries
- March 2010 (Revised March 2012)
- Teaching Note
PNC Financial: Grow Up Great (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Christopher Marquis, V. Kasturi Rangan and Bobbi Thomason
Teaching Note for [409108].
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- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
benefit the environment as well as a company's bottom line," Rangan adds. Good examples are the early childhood literacy initiative of PNC, a financial services organization based in Pittsburgh, and the 10,000 Women initiative of...
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Malory Mclemore
life is a sort of artistry, and that it all fits together now. What is your favorite childhood memory? Being out on my grandmother’s sunporch in Homewood, Alabama. She had bought me a child-size artist’s desk and put it out on the warm,...
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