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- 01 Sep 2005
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New Career Wanted
moving to part time for family or lifestyle reasons. In late career, we often see people who are downshifting or exploring the nonprofit sector. There’s also a spike two or three years after graduation, when young managers often realize...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
the changing global landscape for business leaders Look in any closet, toy chest, or family room in a typical Western home, and you’ll find a trove of goods supplied by a century-old Hong Kong–based export trading company— Li & Fung Ltd....
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
plan might entail setting up a car wash, a truck haulage company, or a fast-food van. “PEP is a terrific program, and I would love to get even more involved,” Edis says. To that end, Edis, whose family has...
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- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
(MBA 1992), CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, suggests that we address the issue of wealth inequality by creating “a way for those with no investment assets to participate in the success of capitalism.” His specific plan is...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
children, and Ray’s demanding travel schedule. To supervise my parents’ care, I relocated my family to Boston, five miles from their home, and Ray and I began commuting to our jobs in Manhattan. I soon discovered the challenges of aging...
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- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
nature of the business, we were still in the world of billable hours; therefore, the conflict of cash flow vs. family time was not resolved. Ultimately, I decided to join a startup operation, and my wife became head of strategic View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
planned for 2023, when he will celebrate his 100th birthday. He’s quick to characterize the 64-year marriage he shared with his wife, Joan, until she died of cancer in 2012. “Where else could I find a woman who would hike across the...
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Julia Hanna;
hobbies;
balance;
meaning;
longevity;
aging;
Paper Manufacturing;
Manufacturing
- 28 May 2021
- News
Unspent Love
of paper origami fish to swim across the ceiling of the family dining room, Kingston writes. “My mother, who put her business degree to use running a small nutritional beverage company with my father in Santa Rosa, Calif., while raising...
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- March 2000 (Revised May 2000)
- Case
U.S. Gas Transportation, Inc.
By: John A. Davis, Myra M. Hart and Sharon Peyus
Presents a career dilemma for a husband/wife owner-manager team. Nanci and Len Mackenzie have received an offer for their highly successful entrepreneurial business, U.S. Gas Transportation, Inc. The Mackenzies are concerned about what the sale might do to their...
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Entrepreneurship;
Family Ownership;
Family Business;
Personal Development and Career;
Organizational Culture;
Employees;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Planning;
Transportation Industry
Davis, John A., Myra M. Hart, and Sharon Peyus. "U.S. Gas Transportation, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 800-049, March 2000. (Revised May 2000.)
- Career Coach
Michele Chambliss
in southern Illinois, has worked on the East Coast (NY/NJ), travelled extensively for her consulting career, and has lived, worked, and raised a family in San Francisco and the Bay Area for over 20 years. Whether uncertain or clear,...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
families bring to company situations," says HBS professor Louis B. ("By") Barnes, who, with Davis and Howard H. Stevenson, taught the program. "We try to help family members develop specific action View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Gardella Joins Alumni Career Services
firm who is reconsidering his decision to take early retirement; an alumnus who wants to spend more time with his family after two years as a management consultant. Gardella envisions his primary role as that of a "facilitator," putting...
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Caroline Chauncey
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
Therese. Morrell: Therese Perzyk was 88, the youngest of 10 children in the Perzyk family of Detroit, and the last living sibling. Quickly, a plan began to form to have the Perzyk View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
School's commitment to provide lifelong learning opportunities that address the needs of all HBS graduates. In recent years, both Hart and Dean Kim B. Clark have said that they often meet HBS alumnae who have left the workforce to focus on caring for their View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Feedback
bulletin@hbs.edu Groundwork Re: Foundations for the future Great vision. The master plan feels good and logical with the purpose of being a residential learning center not only for virtual contacts but, more importantly, for...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Action Plan: Tapping into a Legacy
it’s not right.” The company’s approach to growth is no different. “One of the benefits of a family business is that you’re able to plan for the long term,” Kearsey says of the brewery founded in 1777 by...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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Minding Families' Business
A twelfth-generation scion of one of the oldest merchant families in Quebec, Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien (MBA '54) acquired a family business the old-fashioned way-he built it. Today he dedicates himself to...
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Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
majoring in economics and international relations, and shortly thereafter met her future husband, Ron Marcelo (MBA '98), at a Filipino student conference he had organized at Yale. The subsequent birth of their son, Ryan (now seven), did not alter Lirio Marcelo's View Details
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 07 Oct 2011
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Tea’s Time
Rawdon relates by phone. “But we were united by our vision of what the company could be.” The two spent the following months pulling together a business plan and fund-raising pitch. “My one-year anniversary at Siebel was the same day we...
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Fran Davis
Harvard College and through the Extension School. In addition to her work at Harvard, Dr. Davis maintains a private practice for career consulting and individual, couples and family psychotherapy in the Boston suburbs.
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