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Moving to the U.S. With a Family - MBA
helping with some of our DIY furniture – he built our bed! I will never forget how indebted I felt toward him. All the help we received made the process infinitely easier. During Thanksgiving, one of my classmates invited us to their house for a spectacular dinner...
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Tathagata (TAT) Sarkar
cyclist who could cycle without holding the handlebars, and my parents who left everything for love. I want to remain a lifelong disciple of my idols and learn from them. And, before I leave this world, I...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World
parents busy, they are delighted with the rewards and responsibilities of raising a child. The energetic preschooler offers a very different set of challenges for Costan than did the World Bank, where she'd spent a decade working on...
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Young, Susan
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
opting instead for HBS and an executive career. Ten years later, he again aborted plans to attend medical school when his wife's health suddenly deteriorated, leaving him with primary responsibility for raising his young son and daughter....
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Thomas Frick
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
psychologist Diana Baumrind on parenting styles. Her research highlights four parenting "prototypes" oriented along two dimensions: the level of direction parents...
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- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
Scott Roth (MBA 1994) in the Black Hills of South Dakota as the pair discussed ways to help. What Kim wanted to do was build a foundation that would aid in funding the college educations of military children who had lost a parent in the...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the Value of an MBA
get right to the core of the decision to get an MBA: “Is two years away from work and this tuition going to be a worthwhile investment in myself?” It’s also present in more mundane decisions while you’re here: going to the gym, getting enough sleep, and calling your...
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Dionne Hosten
I'm jealous. I've always been envious of my friends who knew exactly what they wanted to do with their lives. I don't know exactly what my Calling is, but after two years thinking about it, I have at least some glimpse. I want to help create spaces in this world where...
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- 01 May 2015
- Blog Post
How Being an HBS Partner Changed My Life
parents through cancer treatments and my husband through a deployment. Somewhere during that decade, I stopped dreaming about what life could be, and started hoping for what life wouldn’t be. This is how I arrived at HBS. But to my...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
equity. Firmly established in the business world, in the late 1980s, Tierney set out to find a way to fight poverty in Latin America and Africa. “I had been involved in various efforts since my Peace Corps days, but I knew it was time to get serious,” explains Tierney,...
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Susan Young
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
can do x,’” says Cheney. “I had an ‘aha’ moment that there was a lack of a marketplace to connect the supply and demand on that.” A New Recruiting Solution is Born Cheney built out the concept for Prokanga while on maternity leave with...
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- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
his family. In the 1980s, Adem T. Bunkeddeko’s (MBA 2017) parents escaped from war-torn Uganda to a tiny one-bedroom apartment in Queens. There they raised their children and helped other friends and family acclimate to this new country....
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April White
- Portrait Project
Omar A. Abou-Sayed
around with my fly down of not being liked by people I respect of being loved of regrets of leaving home of not living up to my potential of being outgrown by my friends of being alone of a life without spelcheck of not honoring my...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
Defining Moments by Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr. (Harvard Business School Press) How should you respond if you are offered an opportunity at work solely because of your race or gender? What should you do if a single parent on your staff is...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
for me was just realizing how many other families out there are similarly struggling. And, whether it's a parent with dementia or a child with autism or a spouse or a sibling with a cancer or Parkinson's diagnosis, the problem statement...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Tribute to Fellowships
uninhabitable ruin. Her immediate urge was to leave HBS to help her parents put their lives, and their home, back together. They balked at the idea, insisting that they would be fine without her. Nearly two...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
IN HIS ELEMENT: Peter Thayer has spotted nearly 3,500 species of birds...and counting. Peter Thayer (MBA ’73) didn’t recognize the little bird hopping about in his backyard outside Cincinnati. His parents had given him a field guide for...
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- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes After graduating from HBS, Daisy Dowling (MBA 2002) built a successful career in executive coaching and leadership development, working at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Blackstone. Over time, she...
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
employees have spouses or partners who are also employed, compared with 66 percent in 1988. Nearly half of all workers have children under age eighteen who live with them at least half time. Seventy percent of all parents feel they do not...
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Behrad Mahdi
Although Behrad Mahdi was raised in Columbus, Ohio, his could hardly be described as a typical Midwestern childhood. "My parents could not return to their home country after the 1979 Iranian Revolution," Behrad says....
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