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developed a lot of their food habits, yet,” Kohn says. “If you present them with healthy food options and there is good, positive peer pressure from their classmates, their teachers, and their families,... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Carla Small

during my first year at HBS!" Small says. Be it personally or professionally, the soft-spoken Small has been involved with family issues since her days as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College, where she was a peer counselor in an... View Details

Keywords: Linda Goodspeed

26 Feb 2014
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The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)

elements in life that drive you away from working on something you're passionate about. It can be peer pressure (e.g., 'you should do consulting or finance'); money (e.g., 'a hedge fund is the job with the... View Details

Keywords: online shopping; fashion; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

05 Apr 2016
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Don’t Send Your Kids to College. At Least Not Yet.

Surveying the panic and pressure of college admissions season in the New York Times, Abby Falik (MBA 2008), CEO and founder of Global Citizen Year, suggests that few involved in this cultural pressure cooker... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top

the new program, "women executives long for the same kind of camaraderie and exchange that men can find with their peers in more informal settings." Among those in attendance was Jessie d'E. Bourneuf (MBA '75), then president of the King... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

01 Sep 2006
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Down the Memory Chute

With WAC, the longest running of all the report-writing incarnations, the prototypical assignment featured formal and informal discussions of the case at hand, followed by each student’s own fevered analysis. Then came multiple handwritten drafts and hours of typing,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom

were out there.” As the day wears on, the pressure mounts to boil down everything they’ve seen and heard into a succinct, viable business opportunity. In the end, Camille and Vibha propose a lending vehicle to make loans available to the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

04 Sep 2019
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Deep Dive

Vescovo was all alone at the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the deepest section of the Mariana Trench, about 175 miles southwest of Guam and almost 7 miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. It would take about 7 seconds for his message to reach the support... View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

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The Power of Peers

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