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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
thirties, restructuring the marketing organization for a large regional bank, and my husband, Ray Benvenuti (MBA 1986), and I had two children under seven. At that time, I had no inkling of what would be required to juggle the needs of two dying View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Play's the Thing
Baron, the first non-European to win the prestigious award. "I think it's a well-made story, and it's funny," said Baron, a former executive with American Express and Coca-Cola who later became a television and movie writer. "It's really about View Details
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- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
with some of firms’ highest-achieving employees often ended with questions about how to manage the demands of parenting and work. Much of the information she found was long on platitudes and short on practical, actionable advice—so she...
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- Portrait Project
Kelly Quinn
My dad taught me to play baseball. With a batting tee my parents bought, my sister and I created an infield in the front yard. Our towering elm trees stood as first and third base. My dad pitched to me on that homemade field countless...
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Eric Justin
My parents love biographies, so as a homeschooled kid, I read many, many biographies of great people. I felt like the luckiest kid in the world that “school” meant hanging out on the couch with my mom reading together about Teddy...
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- Career Coach
Becca Carnahan
resumes, cover letters, and LinkedIn profiles and specializes in personal branding and storytelling. Becca is a proud working mom of two from Massachusetts and writes about her humorous parenting experiences for her blog and other top...
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- Portrait Project
Juan Felix
"There's more than one way to carry money," my parents promised me over the phone. It was simple advice. A few nights before, my mother had given me a roll of bills. She told me to stick the cash in my socks rather than risk...
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Kevin Omwega
"I'm scared," I said, as we walked into our new home. The house had no lights, no furniture, no running water, nothing. My elder brother Eric, who had remained in Kenya when my parents pursued their education in the U.S., stood...
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- Portrait Project
Viroopa Volla
Two babies were born in the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant government hospital at 11:38 p.m. one Monday in 1991. The father in the other room left as soon as he saw that it was a girl. My father stayed and believed that I was the most beautiful thing in the world. My View Details
- Portrait Project
Kyle Caven
“Don’t embarrass us.” The last words I heard from my parents before every high school football game and wrestling match seemed to convey a focus on results and triumph. I felt enormous pressure to succeed and make them proud. Eventually,...
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- 23 May 2018
- News
The Work-Life Balancing Act
parenting can be both profound and deeply rewarding, they write. Which isn’t to say that it’s easy: For 50 to 60 percent of working parents, achieving a sense of work-life balance is a challenge, they write. In “5 Questions New Working...
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Kasia Biezychudek
My parents would not allow the weight of the iron curtain to hide my stage. Suitcase in hand, they uprooted their lives in Poland and started over to give my brother Piotr and me opportunities they never had. With each experience I...
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- Alumni WDYDWYD
Amy Reinhard
I can't stand sitting on the sidelines. I've always wanted to be in the game. When I was eight years old, I told my parents I wanted to play Little League baseball with the boys. Luckily, my parents didn't...
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- Portrait Project
Minh Chau
I will live each day like it is everyone else's last. It was Sunday March 13th, 2011. I was helping my parents load up their car to head back to Pennsylvania. I had just moved to NYC after college, and my View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
A Steady Voice in Difficult Times
Denise Welsh (MBA 1981) is a pediatric chaplain at Mount Sinai Medical Center, a second career after having spent many years in the finance field. In this video, she talks about her role in the intensive care unit and the impact of helping View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
A Passion for Education
parents. The Robert L. Ryan Fellowship has supported 18 students since Ryan launched the fellowship in 2004. Providing funding for future generations of MBA students is a fitting way for Ryan to recognize the value of education that his View Details
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Zuriel Chavez
I keep a pair of World War II Naval dog tags framed in my living room. They are stamped with the name “James P. Lapp” and represent the impact one man can make. In April 1985, I was carried to this country by my young parents who were...
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- 11 Apr 2020
- News
Reading Together, Apart
When Max Tuchman (MBA 2012) and her cofounder launched the storybook app Caribu in 2017, they knew their product would be a hit with parents who want to be able to read with their children each night, even when traveling—and with...
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- 20 May 2020
- News
Keeping Families Connected
call. “We could not live with ourselves if there was a child who couldn’t have a magical, memorable, experience with a grandparent because a parent had just lost their job and couldn’t pay the monthly fee,” explains Tuchman. “We’re a...
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- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Enabling families to navigate the aging process
Caring for her aging parents led Janet Simpson Benvenuti (MBA 1985) to launch a company that helps other families find resources that are right for their own parents’ needs. (Published November 2014)
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