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- 17 Sep 2021
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
When Xiao Wang (MBA 2014) and his parents immigrated to the United States from China three decades ago, the process was a difficult and expensive one. The family spent the equivalent of five months’ rent on an immigration attorney to...
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Irene So
cheerleading camps, and college tuitions for my sister and me. To me, my parents are the definition of sacrifice. They emigrated from Korea and worked incredibly hard to build a life for us in America. And for that - for the years of...
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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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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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- 29 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Being a Mom and a Founder at HBS
advice or a listening ear on some of the struggles that are unique to being a mom while in school. We are also a part of the broader Crimson Parents student group which supports all students, parents, and families. Truly, the View Details
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Rafiq Ahmed
I have always struggled to answer when people ask me about my family’s heritage. Since my parents and grandparents spent their lives across several countries – Myanmar, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India – before immigrating to America, I...
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- 11 Apr 2018
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
committed to fighting poverty, which comes, in part, from having grown up in a single-parent household in Worcester, Massachusetts, and experiencing firsthand “the sacrifices parents make to push the next generation forward.” Community...
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Matias Ruiz
Growing up in Argentina with loving parents and finding the love of my life were the strongest things that shaped the person I am today. Early on when I started this fantastic experience I promised myself that I would gather some of the...
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- 13 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Video Perspectives: Magashe Ngoepe
my parents were educators. I grew up in the Limpopo Province of South Africa, and they placed a high value and premium on having a solid and strong education. But I wasn't always first in my class, I wasn't always the hardest working. I...
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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Down on the Farm: Frank Burke (MBA '87)
the tarp out on the field when it rains, to greeting the fans as they enter the park. "Our parent club, the Cincinnati Reds, pays our players," Burke continues. "That leaves us free to concentrate on optimizing the ballpark experience...
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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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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
father was a commercial fisherman before retiring to manage his mother’s neighborhood tavern. “My parents were focused on education,” she recalls, “so the Catholic high school I attended, Bishop Kenny, was the aspiration in Jacksonville.”...
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Matt Simpson
than any Ivy League classroom ever could. Made me appreciate just how much my parents had done to give me this chance. That my father woke up at 4am for decades to put me in the position I was squandering. That mom and dad set the...
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Statement from Dean Srikant Datar on Anti-Semitism | About
peacefully and productively. Everyone deserves the same opportunity my parents found here. As the words of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. remind us, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” None of us should tolerate...
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- 17 May 2017
- News
Nisa Godrej Takes Over
she met considerable resistance from the parent company chiefs, including her father. "Godrej has been one of those lifetime employers, and you don't change management," Nisa explains. "Within that year, I probably said I was quitting two...
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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
- 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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Sheila Lirio Marcelo
But she would not have it any other way. Born to entrepreneurial parents who ran a variety of businesses, the precocious Marcelo was curious at an early age about business processes and asked endless questions about the work environment....
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Saigal knew her...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
(Zoonar RF/Thinkstock; iStock) Sweet Kiddles is a new concept in center-based childcare. Unlike traditional centers where parents must commit to fixed full- or part-time schedules, Sweet Kiddles’ flexible scheduling allows families to use...
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