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  • September 2016
  • Case

Ekal Vidyalaya: Education for Rural India

By: David Drake, Namrata Bhattacharya, Pooja Godbole and Amrita Saigal
By examining Ekal Vidyalaya (Ekal), a nonprofit network of schools in India, this case focuses on the classic challenge faced by organizations that grow through replication (e.g., McDonald's, Starbucks, Walmart, Whole Foods): How can they continue to drive growth when... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Early Childhood Education; India
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  • 06 May 2015
  • News

Developing a strategic plan for your own life

At HBS, Brigid Sullivan (MBA 1976) determined that she wanted to a career that was creative, interesting, and socially minded. She found that at WGBH-TV where she oversees children’s programming. (Published May 2015) View Details
  • 22 Oct 2020
  • News

A Q+A with Dash Camp Founder Tabitha Salomon (MBA 2014)

  • 21 Jul 2009
  • Research Event

Business Summit: Managing Human Capital—Global Trends and Challenges

ways, the human capital needed for globalization is lacking. Progress is required in important areas such as elevating more women to leadership positions and having talent strategies that incorporate diversity. Taking a longer-term view, early View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Thomas
  • 05 Aug 2015
  • News

Nourishing the Next Generation

When Lesley Kohn (MBA 1992) left her position as a management consultant in the tech sector in 2005 to launch Chefables, there weren’t a lot of people talking about improving school food, especially at the preschool level. “In the beginning, you were a single voice.... View Details
  • Profile

Ashley McCray

volunteered on their Partners in Food Solutions Team which is non-profit that connects local food manufacturers in Africa with technical experts in CPG! What is your favorite childhood memory? Starting a sno-cone stand with my 2 sisters... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Farm Boy

150-acre commercial farm, named Oakholm, in nearby Brookfield. At age 91, he has just completed a memoir, Making Hay, which is about his childhood and life on the farm. The Worcester Telegram & Gazette (September 16, 2008) said the book... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Christine Keung

homework as I could while sitting between the soda machine and a mountain of takeout boxes. Success was getting an education that would free me from what I thought were limits of my upbringing. I’ve since earned an education that has far exceeded my View Details
  • Profile

Alex Furleigh

sophomore-year biology in high school showed me that animals were probably meant to be a fascination for me rather than a career. What is your favorite childhood memory? Hiking in Colorado every other summer with my family. From group... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Turning Point: Make Your Life Count

Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father... View Details
  • Profile

Layeeka Ismail

education and I was always enamored with the idea of saving lives. “Operation” was one of my favorite childhood games. What is your favorite childhood memory? Because both of my parents worked full-time,... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Tamara Lynn Nall

"Faster than a speeding bullet... able to jump buildings in a single bound... it's a bird, it's a plane, NO!... it's Superwoman!!!" I want to be a role model to show the world that a woman can do everything... I want to:  Record my 92-year-old grandmother's... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Helen Ruiqi Zhang

Shackleton's incredible voyage was my favorite childhood bedtime story. I dreamt of conquering the giant waves and stirring ice and surmounting the extreme territory with my hands and feet. Antarctica is my last continent to visit, but it... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Kiwi Star

WHINERAY: A national hero looks back. Photos by (L) Getty Images; (R) David White/ New Zealand Herald One of five brothers growing up in New Zealand during World War II, Sir Wilson Whineray (MBA 1969) experienced a childhood in which “the... View Details
  • 16 Oct 2019
  • News

The Road to Impact

education, promote health, and expand economic opportunity for the citizens of 80 countries. Founded in 1958, EDC designs, implements, and evaluates programs that range from early childhood education to suicide prevention to distance... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Laila Kassis

An image from my childhood home provides inspiration: A framed photo of my family's olive tree with its stumpy figure, gnarled roots, and uneven snow-covered branches reveals the incredible resilience and strength of character developed... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Cindy Thanh Tran

My memory of childhood is filled with carrots - relatively cheap, good for eyesight. I grew up in Vietnam, the war-torn country which was impoverished further by a closed economy back in the 1980s. My mother was determined to do anything... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Ann Lucena

the right answers. I replaced my childhood aspiration with more conventional and tangible goals. Now that I have reached many of the milestones I was 'supposed to,' I find myself thinking back to my original ambition and realizing that... View Details
  • 1984
  • Article

Children's Artistic Creativity: Effects of Choice in Task Materials

By: T. M. Amabile and J. Gitomer
Preschool boys and girls made collages using a subset of a large array of materials. Half of the children were allowed to choose those materials they would use. For the rest of the children, the choice was made by the experimenter. Children in the no-choice condition... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Early Childhood Education; Social Psychology; Decision Choices and Conditions
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  • March 2019
  • Supplement

Kids & Company in 2018

By: Boris Groysberg and Matthew Preble
This case reveals to readers what has transpired at Kids & Company in the year following the decision point presented in Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.” View Details
Keywords: Childcare; Daycare; Early Childhood Education; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; United States; Canada
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