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- 15 Nov 2020
- News
How Scholarships Helped One Student Achieve Many Firsts
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. In a video profile, Christine Keung (MBA 2020) shares how scholarships enabled her to explore, grow, and earn an education that far exceeded her childhood...
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- 09 Jul 2019
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The Road to Impact
evaluates programs ranging from early childhood education to suicide prevention to distance learning. The organization is largely funded on a project basis by groups like the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Agency for...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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No Place Like Home
positively affects childhood development, individual self-esteem, and family viability. Housing is generally considered "affordable" when its cost does not exceed 30 percent of the median family income in a given area. In one typically...
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Garry Emmons
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
A Category Leader
to a couple of strengths. Being attuned to other people and the diversity of their needs came from my childhood traveling with my father, because he interacted with people of all different levels. “Also, developing people is really...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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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 the center by the hour or by...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Judith C. Radasch (MBA 1979) (Archway Publishing) In this story of spiritual healing and the restoration of physical and mental health, Radasch shares the details of her life—the good, the bad, and the ugly. She tells how she healed miraculously from the trauma of...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Pursuing a passion
Michelle Crames and Jeff Norton (both MBA ’ 03) of a company called Lean Forward Media. “Michelle and Jeff discovered they shared a childhood passion for a series of books called Choose Your Own Adventure, which allowed readers to select...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007
abuse throughout his life and spent fifteen years homeless on the streets of Las Vegas, far from their California home, before he died in 2003. “My father gave us the biggest gift he could have, which was to leave,” says Landles-Dowling. “I escaped a potentially tough...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
emotions was, we're so thankful to have this experience and there was a little bit of melancholy about it too, because my father, who had passed away the year prior, would've loved to know that, that had happened. For him, his uncle Dickie was really probably his View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments
Seattle-based Elevar Equity. Her childhood summers in the Philippines, with its extreme poverty and extreme wealth, inspired an interest in development; a career in private equity and investment banking had taught her how to invest. On...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Plugged In
car—which is due in showrooms next month—for the American market. (Though that was nice, too.) The moment also represented a high point in a love affair with cars that began with childhood kart racing and included a few HBS-to-Montreal...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
have learned on my own or in a classroom." Kacyvenski's personal story of overcoming a childhood marred by hunger, homelessness, abuse, and tragedy has earned him a guest spot on The Oprah Winfrey Show and been documented by NFL Films....
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- 29 Mar 2023
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Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
to provide early childhood education, post-trauma psychosocial support for children, parents, and women, and preschool learning materials and hygiene kits for families in container villages and other locations in the region via mobile...
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- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
house in York for us to live in. So this started a very happy childhood in York. JH: Growing up, Bob and his brother had an outdoorsy childhood, riding their bikes and playing in the fields and creeks near town. But Wilson was also pretty...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Code name: Miesiąc
university in Warsaw. The SB officers wanted to recruit Maj as an informer among the student ranks. Teenaged Maj was not an activist. He had spent his childhood in a small town about 50 kilometers outside Kraków, far from the workers’...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
unique food (famed ham, mushroom varietals, cheese-making, and rare herbs), temperate climate, surrounding rivers and mountains, ethnic diversity (bordering Laos, Vietnam, and Myanmar, Dali has been a cultural blotter), and overwhelming hospitality. Zhang returned to...
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- 01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill
region by helping local residents cultivate their own food; and made Pine Mountain a guaranteed buyer of local produce. In addition, he enlisted Sky (who also earned a doctorate from HGSE) to relaunch the school’s early childhood...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Taylor R. M. Keen
tell you, means "those who move against the current," and for Keen, who is always stretching the conventional thinking in whatever community he travels, the name couldn't be more fitting. Spending most of his childhood on his parents'...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 19 Nov 2014
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The Power of Yes
and share them with the world to inform new ways of attacking these perennial problems.” Dichter’s paternal grandparents escaped the Holocaust by fleeing from Poland to Shanghai and then to the United States; his father was born in Shanghai, his mother in Rio de...
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Julia Hanna