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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist
Three dollars in cash, six changes of clothing, five bottles of rum, and a box of cigars. These were the items that belonged to 12-year-old Carlos Saladrigas when he arrived in Miami in 1961. His parents chose the risk of sending their...
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Susan Young
- Profile
Megan Maloney
Coming to HBS is like... ...diving into an ice cold bath after a long, hard workout. It stings at first but your mind adjusts, your muscles heal and you leave better than when you entered it. Being part of the HBS community is like......
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- 11 May 2022
- Blog Post
MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS
was out on parental leave, my classes were recorded. During each Finance class recording my professor would ask "Do we have a baby yet?"... until one day the recording showed our section president receive a text (that I sent from the...
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- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
manages $3.8 billion As part of the Polish underground resistance during World War II, André Jakurski's father forged documents to help those in danger change their identities. "My parents lost everything during the war," explains the...
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Susan Young
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Brandon Tieu
of uncertainty. What is one thing you brought with you to campus, and one thing you’ll be leaving with? I'm sure most students would say they brought their own unique experiences with them to campus, and I am no exception. My experiences...
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- 22 Sep 2022
- News
The Beauty Guide
gave her some advice: Leave the comfort of marketing and join sales; learn the business from the inside out. The suggestion made little sense to Freyre, who considered herself a marketer and a brand strategist at her core. But she trusted...
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Maureen Harmon
- Web
Doubling Down on Women’s Health Innovation and Leveraging the Private Sector in a Post-Roe v. Wade Era - Blog: Health Supplement
right to determine if and when to have children. No matter what one’s personal or religious views are, the impact will be felt by all - health systems and payors bearing costs from pregnancies now forced to continue, employers with more employees taking View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
Ngoyi at the Fund for Export Development in Africa: creating sustainable development at scale. (Courtesy of Marlene Ngoyi) Born in Brussels to Congolese parents and raised in Gabon, Marlene Ngoyi (MBA 2009) has lived and worked in countries including Guatemala, the...
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- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
invigorating, and I have found that it is important for me to use my voice and story to share what that means to me and to invite others to partake in my culture rather than to simply smile and walk away. Patricia Jiang – Class of 2021 My View Details
- 10 Apr 2023
- News
Leading the Way
community," says Trujillo. "My parents never finished high school." Trujillo's mentor, Pete Garcia, a community leader who worked to empower poor families, set him on the path to success, and it was Garcia's reminders to "be a leader"...
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Margie Kelley
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
Any parent can tell you that a surefire way to turn joy into rage is to offer your child a big candy bar—and then turn around and offer an even bigger one to his sister. Suddenly, a special treat turns into a great injustice. "Hey! How...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
the daily gathering of parents and kids at the same table every night for dinner can make that time feel less like eating an ordinary meal and more like sharing a meaningful family ritual. Types of rituals: from date nights to chores In...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
offices, kitchen tables, and bedrooms. Parents suddenly needed to juggle homeschooling while learning how to be effective remote workers. Working from home during a global pandemic has introduced new formats, patterns, challenges, and...
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by Tsedal Neeley
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
AI as a platform, and how to manage the numerous problems digital platforms can create. Participants will leave this session with a deeper understanding of the upsides and downsides of the emerging platform economy, how AI will impact the...
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- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
why do relatively few women ride e-scooters? Why are women underrepresented among Baker Scholars at HBS? I challenge gender stereotypes – do women prefer being homemakers to careers? Why should men in the UK receive two weeks of parental...
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- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
shut down and has seen no revenue, with thousands of employees home, since November. 2. Lead by example Managers should model the behavior they want to see in others. If they say employees can leave the office or avoid travel, but the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people...
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- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
solutions to this issue include membership-only stores or allowing for price matching so that the consumer is unlikely to leave the showroom without making a purchase. Retailers must find ways to get consumers or manufacturers to pay for...
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Harvard Business School
served as director of BET Holdings, the parent company of Black Entertainment Television. Franklin Anderson MBA 1971 Franklin Anderson co-founded and led Cleveland's Hough Area Community Development Corporation (HADC). Before coming to...
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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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