Family Planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 May 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Women Find New Path to Work

The swift current of modern business presents a challenge for any woman deciding to temporarily step out of the corporate rapids to tend to family or other concerns. While they are away competitors come and go, technology constantly... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

Life was hard enough for the one-third of Americans who had wrestled with anxiety prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the disease that has killed almost 100,000 in the United States, left millions unemployed, and socially distanced many people from friends and View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

12 Feb 2016
News

Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict

about their career dreams when a bright-eyed 11-year-old boy shared his plan to be a scientist. “I want to bomb the enemy,” he told her. Mendhro pressed him about his response until he confided: “I don’t know anyone from this country.”... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Apr 2000
News

A Place in the Sun

about where we are, who we are, and what happened yesterday. We discuss each guest's enjoyment levels: Did George and Mary have a good time yesterday? Did they have a life experience? What are George and Mary planning to do today?"... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

in his path. Langford, 65, is far too genteel and affable for that, as anyone who knows him will tell you—and plenty of people in Georgia know Jim Langford (MBA 1984), whose family roots in the state stretch back to 1853. But those same... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

03 Apr 2019
News

Finding Common Ground

photo by Chad Kirkland Randy Shumway (MBA 2000) and his family were regular supporters of clothing and blanket drives for shelters in their Salt Lake City community. But, like many well-intentioned people who are moved by the outcomes of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Commencement 2020 Address | About

the tenth and last time I will have the honor of speaking to a graduating class as Dean of this School as I plan to step down at the end of this year. This is certainly not how any of us had hoped to celebrate this occasion. But let’s set... View Details

Profile

Frank Spencer

trust. "Affordable housing in particular has been a longtime passion of mine." In addition to helping to develop the first SRO (single-room occupancy) residence for homeless men in Charlotte, Spencer has served on the board of the Charlotte Housing Authority... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Services

16 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

of dogs and interested families, Exley and Battles have begun designing an accessible, up-to-date list of families looking for dogs. And there are plans to update the site. (At the risk of making a bad dog... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

01 Mar 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

with comical tales are perceptive looks at things as different as family Christmas rituals, and the impact of 40 years of communism on society. When Climate Change Hits Home by Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012) (Amazon Digital Services LLC)... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

3-Minute Briefing: Burunda Prince (MBA 1987)

My parents were both public school teachers, but they also owned a repair shop called Satellite TV. After school and on Saturdays we’d all go over to the family business. That was my first insight into the hard work of entrepreneurship.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; leadership; Black; African American

18 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Exploring the Tech World Through WesTrek

post-HBS. The tech industry changes quickly, and we heard over and over how the case method - which forces us to take a firm position and make decisions with incomplete information - has contributed to alums’ success. The Connections WesTrek showed me that despite... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Steven C. Watson

things.” Until he adjusted to the daily grind of preparing lesson plans and correcting tests and homework, Watson regularly found himself logging ninety-hour workweeks — after taking a 90 percent pay cut from the consulting job he held... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Vision: Learning Curve

technology so that we can reach out in a low-cost, scalable way,” Mahajan explains. Rocket targets the least educated and most impoverished families in India. Many parents earn between one and two dollars a day doing construction or... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; education; entrepreneurship; startup; India; Educational Services

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Digital Designs on the Inner City

opportunities in inner city businesses, said surveys show a general increase in computer ownership and online access among inner city families. Even so, she pointed out, computer use in the inner city remains significantly lower than in other areas. For example, online... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

and what kind of deals they made. When we talked with female partners, the anecdotal evidence was mixed. They said, "We don't think we see any more business plans from women entrepreneurs than our male colleagues. But, we as a firm... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

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What We Do | Research Associates

Low-Income Families Just a few weeks after I was hired as an RA, I went out to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where we coordinated with a local nonprofit that sets up free tax preparation sites to ensure that low income individuals receive their Earned... View Details

20 Jul 2017
News

Pushing the Next Generation Forward

stories of the families we work with are not unlike my story,” says Owusu-Kesse. The son of Ghanaian immigrants, he was raised by his mother in a distressed Worcester, Massachusetts, neighborhood. “I experienced firsthand the sacrifices... View Details