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- 01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney
foundering parent as CEO in the early 1990s. "Both Bain and the SLOC were dispirited organizations suffering from leadership crises," Romney observes. "Both had financial problems and needed new clients. And both were negatively affected...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Turning Point: Crossover
work in real estate investment to make coaching a full-time commitment; and I wanted to do it in my hometown of San Francisco, simply because I wanted to be closer to my parents and my brother and sister. Now I serve as the full-time head...
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- 20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired
about kind of non-financial rewards and kind of put out some nice benefits for you. And we’ll give you leave of absence, we’ll engage in parental leave, we’ll do this and the other. But we haven’t understood that human beings, we are also...
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- 31 May 2018
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Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
with those around you. For years, my parents and friends would try to have a conversation with me about the eating disorder and I could not come from a place of authenticity. I still had this external mask on like everything was fine. If...
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- 18 Jan 2012
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Charter Supporter
“Both of my parents have always been very committed to volunteer work and they always encouraged us to give back to the community,” Burke told the Capital Times. “I feel incredibly lucky to have been given the opportunities I was given,...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Alumni Books
dozens of tips and tricks for students and parents looking for an affordable education. Health Policy Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach by Curtis P. McLaughlin (MBA ’56, DBA ’66) and Craig D. McLaughlin (Jones & Bartlett Publishers)...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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David M. Hughes
you're disciplined." So what is it that motivates Hughes to just say yes to virtually everything? "It sounds incredibly corny, but I'm happiest when I feel I'm giving all I can to others," he says. "My parents instilled in me how...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 16 Sep 2013
- News
Canada’s Native Son
refrigerator to help a local family in need. He remembers his father and grandfather working with folks facing marital problems or troubles with the law. He remembers them grappling with unemployment and education issues among the people. He watched as his View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
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Andrew H. Tisch
of the hotel school's student body and organized protests against U.S. involvement in Vietnam. He credits his parents with his abiding interest in leadership and social issues. “They provided us with a moral compass and emphasized the...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
developments. The Case Method Miracle by Anne Jones (MBA 1997) Crimson Square Press “Socrates created it. Harvard Business School perfected it. We parent with it; anyone, anywhere, anytime. Kids get grit and wise judgment.” View Details
- 02 Dec 2021
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Learning Curve
of teacher collaboration and training in the success of the students as well as the high rates of staff retention. (Though she was still grateful when some parents began to volunteer for lunch duty.) “It was a lot of small battles, a lot...
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- 20 Jan 2015
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Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
lifetime in investment banking, met with health industry and digital record experts to learn how to make the industry more efficient. Thus, Health Record Corporation (HRC), parent company of MedKaz, was created. Passionate about his new...
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- 01 Jan 2008
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John Doerr, MBA 1976
ages 11 and 17, Doerr puts family as his top priority. Growing up in a tight-knit middle-class family in St. Louis, John Doerr was influenced by his entrepreneurial father. “My parents worked hard to give all five of their children...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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America the Unequal
people with zero net worth, and even negative net worth, can still believe that they are living the American dream, doing “better” than their parents did while keeping up with the Joneses. Second, poorer Americans’ belief in social...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Turning Point: Dream Weaver
Encyclopedia Britannica. A little less, maybe the World Book. Neither of my parents went to college. In our case, they struggled to buy a letter a week of the encyclopedia available through the A&P, where we bought groceries. That was how...
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- 13 Nov 2020
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Insatiably Curious
supported the HBS Fund since she graduated. Business was not a path she considered as a child. At the age of 10, Ma, her younger sister, and her parents emigrated from Beijing to New York. Attending public schools and not speaking...
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- 02 Jan 2018
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Reconsidering Retirement
store in New Jersey; the son accompanied him on buying trips to New York and watched him negotiate for the best merchandise and price. He had even launched his own successful business before arriving at HBS: a birthday cake delivery service that advertised to the View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
eighteen different family companies from nine countries. Among them were several family owners and managers of the Stroh Companies, Inc., the parent company of America's fourth largest brewery. "We're now in our sixth generation," says...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
on comedy writing at the People’s Improv Theater in addition to writing for Monk, a USA Network weekly comedy-mystery series. Toplyn and his wife, Sherry, are the parents of two teenage sons. As an undergrad, I worked on the Harvard...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
how to get and use professional help; a rebuttal to family wealth models; a philosophy of family wealth; and challenges for wealthy parents and how to address them. Reinvention: Accelerating Results in the Age of Disruption by Shane...
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