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Vysh Ravikumaran
evening. By the time I woke up in the morning, my dad was back – covered in injuries. The home was wreaked in havoc – our phone lines were ringing, and my parents barely noticed I had entered the kitchen. I want to live life with people I...
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Michelle Henry
On day 34 of not eating, I stopped being hungry. It was a Friday night in March 2014, and the smell of pizza filled the house. My parents scarfed down slices as quickly as they could, hiding from me. I breathed in the pepperoni-scented...
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JJ Singh
declined. After 28 years of service in the Department of Veterans Affairs, he was months away from retirement. He was squirreling away his vacation days — each representing a few hundred dollars. "This will all be your money when I die," he said. My View Details
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Ben Schumacher
When I was 18, I became a man. It happened while I was digging irrigation trenches in central Kentucky horse farms. To me, working in my family's irrigation business meant a summer wage; but it meant something much more to my fellow irrigation workers. My View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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College Daze
American parents wholeheartedly believe in the importance of a college education, but relatively few are saving enough for that not-so-distant day when Junior's whopping tuition bills will start rolling in. Enter UPromise, Inc., a...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Necessity became the mother of invention for staffing-firm founder
When she became a new mom, Allison O’Kelly (MBA 1999) wanted to have more flexibility in her life, and realized that other parents did as well. As founder and CEO of Mom Corps, O’Kelly turned a personal challenge into a profession. As a...
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Mathew Turner
"...to whom much is given, much will be required..." Luke 12:48 I will give back... to my family, my country and our world... .because I have been blessed with a lot: parents that instilled the values in me to beat the harsh...
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- 20 Aug 2016
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The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery
Josue Zapata (MD/MBA 2012) is chief resident in internal medicine at the University of California in San Francisco. In this interview he discusses how he is utilizing his business training to make a difference in patient treatment and health care delivery. “My View Details
James J. Ling
Ling was a maverick in the development of the conglomerate business model, building in 14 years the 14th largest industrial corporation in the United States. A major risk taker, Ling extensively used debt to sustain parent company growth...
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Sheila Marcelo
As a child in the Philippines, Sheila Marcelo grew up watching her parents run a variety of entrepreneurial endeavors. At age seven, when she accompanied her mother and father to the rice mill they ran, she spent her time asking the...
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- 30 Sep 2022
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Scaling Hope
son’s life and D’Antonio’s. Today, both men work in the addiction treatment industry. D’Antonio’s son, now with more than six years continuous sobriety, is trained as a peer recovery coach, supporting others struggling with addiction. D’Antonio, trained as a View Details
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Mike Cohen
When it comes to the legacy I hope to leave, I have some tough acts to follow. My grandparents escaped death in Nazi concentration camps to provide a safer environment to raise their children. Thirty years later, my parents fled a...
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Brendan Sullivan
elderly Japanese women and men. They respond with curiosity by stroking my blonde, almost white, hair. My reluctance during this weekly ritual led to protests that my parents dismissed. My mother, a Colombian immigrant, and my father, an...
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- 08 Aug 2016
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Writing the Book on Balance
her signature in the 500 books we had printed.” As for managing the demands of a busy working parent (she oversees a large senior housing portfolio for a REIT), she observed, “Three years ago, I made a decision to adjust my work hours to...
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- 20 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
legally enforceable agreements only with specific legal entities. Using a sample of bank loans issued to U.S. parent companies, I find that a more complex corporate legal structure is associated with higher loan spreads. The findings are...
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Dina Gerdeman
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Rebecca Gifford
When I was a child, my parents taught me 1960's folk songs instead of lullabies. While most kids were learning "The Itsy Bitsy Spider," I sang "Blowin' in the Wind" and "If I Had a Hammer." I came to HBS to...
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Nina Bilimoria
connections, the human worldwide web. And if that's the case, if we are all indeed connected, we need to worry about each other, console and improve each other. My parents embodied this devout selflessness as I grew up with club feet,...
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Jaime Arreola
I want to live THIS day. I have a lucky past. I grew up watching my father canalizing the gross of his paychecks towards college tuition, English classes, and volleyball traveling expenses for me and my brother. My parents chose my...
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Dan Vallone
sense of wonder with me. But I was lucky. My parents filled my childhood with these moments. Moments that made me look up and believe anything is possible. I want to spend my life creating these moments. When I am a father, I want to...
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Benefits & Compensation | Employment
the country. Time Off See Harvard’s generous vacation, holiday, sick time, and family leave policies. Medical & Dental Quality and affordability are the hallmarks of Harvard’s medical and dental plans. Work/Life Balance Harvard offers an array of resources for working...
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