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- 01 Jun 2003
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Books
something nice to say, then don’t say anything at all” may be a recipe for success in polite society, as parents have long taught their children. But holding one’s tongue may wreak havoc in the business world, according to HBS associate...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
percent down payment. Not many of our grand- parents or great-grandparents could save that much. Under Roosevelt’s New Deal, the Federal Housing Administration institutionalized the long-term, fixed-rate mortgage, opening the door to home...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
from publishing weekly to biweekly. Knight Ridder, the Wall Street darling that owned the Philadelphia Inquirer and Detroit Free Press, is no more, having been swallowed and largely written off by a peer whose own fortunes then nose-dived. Tribune, the View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Action Plan: Writing the Next Chapter
dreamed of living and working in New York. Her parents encouraged her to pursue her outside interests, which included studying hotel management and working in luxury marketing, but those experiences brought her back to Caran d’Ache. After...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2006
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HBS Honors Four Alumni
former chairman of London-based Apax Partners, one of the world’s leading venture-capital and private-equity firms, Ronnie Cohen and his parents emigrated, with virtually no possessions, to England from Egypt in 1956. Often said to be the...
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- 27 Mar 2012
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One School at a Time
back on a test.” Frock was working as a high-level executive at Corning when she decided to scale back her involvement to spend more time at home with her children, then 7 and 8 years old. After becoming more involved in the local public schools, she and a group of...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
parenting popular in the United States and Europe. She also offers a few clever tips, such as how Russian babies are potty trained well before the age of two, and how Russian mothers easily get their young children to eat healthy,...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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A Janus-Faced Reflection
wake up to find oneself deeply enmeshed in a large company, a parent or a dog owner, or the proprietor of a stately home in a suspiciously green and leafy neighborhood. But we have followed our own paths to this latest milestone, and odds...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Lesson Plans
students who become tomorrow's employees. Rohit Jain (GMP 5, 2008) @followrohit: Parents need to be involved in their child's education and school. Starts at home and have a working relationship with the teachers ... grow the school...
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- 05 May 2023
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Fail Better
that was targeted at US-born Latino youth, like second and third-generation. So their parents had come to this country and now they're navigating two worlds. We wanted to target that population at MTV, but to do so was a complicated...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money
wants 15 percent of the equity and would take out a loan from your parent company to buy his shares, the loan to be repaid with dividends from those shares. Would you make him a partner? On a cold winter day in Boston, your car battery is...
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- 19 Jan 2023
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Forged in Fire
prepare for the wedding. We were both living in Washington, in separate houses. And I got a call from parents the next morning saying that she had died of a malignant brain tumor. And it really forced me to think about "what's life all...
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- 09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity
that is based on robotics. “The goal is for us to identify talent early, so that we can attract students into our graduate program and provide hope to primary schools kids and parents that there will be jobs and an employment future,” he...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2024
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Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely...
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- 07 May 2020
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Ensuring Student Equity
serve.” This outreach includes wellness-check phone calls and handwritten letters aimed at students, parent resource packets, a virtual self-care program for teachers, and a virtual appreciation lunch program each month for staff members....
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 2000
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William Jones: Builder with a Mission
deteriorated, and crime increased. "I remember feeling that my parents and neighbors were victims of forces beyond their control," Jones says. Later, while earning a degree at the University of San Diego, Jones, at age 23, became chief of...
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Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2014
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3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)
We moved to Toronto from Mombasa, Kenya, when I was eight and my brother [Asif Satchu, MBA 1999] was six. For my parents to decide to come here and start a new life was, in many ways, THe ultimate risk. The immigrant experience is...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Security Chief
arena, where he was president and CEO of GE Commercial Insurance, and into something with strong growth prospects. Four months later, Parker’s wish came true: He became president and CEO of GE’s new Homeland Protection unit. In July 2005 he took charge of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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Mr. Start-Up
me solve a problem within a day, or an hour, that might otherwise take a month. There are studies that look for consistent traits in entrepreneurs: Are they a firstborn child? Were their parents entrepreneurs? Did they move a lot when...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Coming Full Circle
1980 to found Delta Consulting, a firm that merged with Mercer Consulting in 2000. Now vice chairman of Marsh & McLennan, Mercer’s parent company, Nadler continues his engagement with academia through his financial support of the HBS...
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