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- 11 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
photographer, so many of my favorite childhood and adult memories took place in national parks. I spent 80% of the pandemic going up and down parks along the Pacific Coast Highway. Using business skills to give back to an organization...
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- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
weekly Tupper Lake Free Press about an idea for a regional nature museum in the heart of his beloved Adirondack Mountains, he picked up the phone. Clifford, who still goes by his childhood nickname “Obie” when he’s in Upstate New York,...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518006-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-005 Magic Bus: From Childhood to Livelihood Founded in 1999 by Matthew Spacie to give poor children an opportunity to play, Magic Bus had evolved to...
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Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Joe Stenger
fighter pilot. What is your favorite childhood memory? It was a hot summer day in Barnesville, Ohio. I was 16 years old and had just finished loading several hundred bales of hay from one of my family’s fields into a wagon. It was...
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- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
our ‘customers’ — kids who otherwise wouldn’t get to read Robinson Crusoe or his own childhood favorite Half Magic.” Creating Worldreader has also allowed for personal growth, says Risher, who was recently honored with a Microsoft...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
recalls. “I said, ‘Absolutely. Sign me up.’ It was the luck of bingo that changed my life trajectory. I wanted to be part of something that took luck out of the equation for others.” That bingo reference harks back to Owusu-Kesse’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
outdoorsman, he grew up in San Francisco and spent his childhood hiking and fishing with his family in the Pacific Northwest. The scenery in Manhattan is a bit different, he admits. “We have a different kind of canyon here,” he laughs....
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- 16 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
Out of PE, Into Africa
of my youth ("we should open a bar in the Bahamas!"), this nagging desire to do something off the grid as a family wouldn’t go away. I could see the last vestiges of childhood slipping away in my daughter, who didn’t yet have a...
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- 17 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Setting a Higher Bar on Fatherhood
single mom. I can look back at times in my childhood and see where he was making up parenting as he went, but then again, who isn’t? Rather than shirk the responsibility, he rose to the occasion and gave me the role model that he never...
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- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
food, shelter is perhaps the most basic human need. In modern society, stable, safe housing is more than a matter of comfort and convenience; it positively affects childhood development, individual self-esteem, and family viability....
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- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
academic and life teachers who opened my eyes to what could be accomplished through science and innovation,” Blum says. “This was a way I could pay that back.” Having spent his childhood in the mountains of North Carolina, Blum is a...
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Deborah Blagg
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
family and societal levels: family-of-origin social class moderates effects of maternal employment, and childhood exposure to female employment within society can substitute for the influence of maternal employment on daughters and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
inequalities in public and private spheres are affected by childhood exposure to non-traditional gender role models at home. We test the association between being raised by an employed mother and adult men’s and women’s outcomes at work...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
event can be found here.) "I knew a lot of people who died," Beyaz said. "My cousin and her husband, two beautiful people who left behind two wonderful kids; and also classmates, friends. My childhood home collapsed." Beyaz added that his...
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Margie Kelley
- 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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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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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
Roberts Illustration by PJ Loughran Carter Roberts (MBA ’88) traces his enchantment with nature back to his early childhood in Atlanta, where he roamed a backyard forest and discovered a fascinating world of creatures under rotting logs....
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Roger Thompson
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
unpopular and very costly war in Iraq. Meanwhile, countries that used to be called "less developed" became emerging markets, and have invested much more in the development of talent than we have. So there are also concerns about the competitiveness of the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- September 2021
- Case
Worldreader: Helping Readers Build a Better World
By: Marco Bertini, Elie Ofek and Julia Kelley
Founded in 2010, Worldreader was an international nonprofit organization that promoted reading to children around the world. For many years, Worldreader distributed e-readers to under-resourced communities and funded its operations primarily through philanthropic...
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Subscription Model;
Price;
Financial Strategy;
Education;
Early Childhood Education;
Learning;
Geography;
Geographic Scope;
Global Range;
Goals and Objectives;
Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
Markets;
Organizations;
Mission and Purpose;
Social Enterprise;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Society;
Social Issues;
Strategy;
Commercialization;
Expansion;
Segmentation;
Education Industry;
Africa;
Asia;
Latin America;
Europe;
North and Central America;
South America
Bertini, Marco, Elie Ofek, and Julia Kelley. "Worldreader: Helping Readers Build a Better World." Harvard Business School Case 522-003, September 2021.