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- 01 Mar 2018
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Turning Point: One Step at a Time
Kids and adults alike had told me I just “wasn’t athletic,” and that was OK—I was smart and talented in other ways. So when the time came for that mandatory mile run I had to get creative. We didn’t have a gym at my small parochial...
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Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- 04 Jun 2008
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Whistle While You Work
sports, themselves subsets of the gargantuan leisure-and-entertainment industry.) We’ve increasingly decided that our kids will absorb more at school if learning is presented as entertainment. As a corollary, for workers in the workplace...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Ticktock
could wake up to their favorite songs rather than beeps (Tocky made it to market). Ofek remains in touch with Nanda, reporting that she is now mulling the idea of a children’s alarm clock that will not only wake kids in the morning but...
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- 01 Sep 2024
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The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to...
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- 28 Sep 2015
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Rockin’ for a Cause
now provides nearly three-quarters of the flexible funding available to principals in the Palo Alto school district. “Most of the band members either have or had kids in Palo Alto schools, so that’s a huge motivator,” says Scheel. “But...
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- 13 Feb 2015
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Lessons in Perseverance
parents of all 600 schoolchildren. In today’s world, she told them, kids need to learn how to relate to the other sex. Deza’s sales pitch worked. Only four parents transferred their children elsewhere. Today, Casuarinas International...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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Ink
send employees and supporters over to the big chain store to buy it, bring it back, and sell it for a penny less.” THE MARKET TESTING “I told this Freezy Frosty story to my kids for years. And they would tell their friends, who would come...
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- 20 Sep 2013
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Connections Add Up
lessons about choices and tradeoffs are about more than money—and even more powerful. "An economist in my network in Memphis was asking kids what they had learned, and one said, 'I learned not to join a gang.'" Her passion needed a...
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- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
administrator on his team. After her father, Sergeant Jerome Lemon, was killed in Iraq in 2004, the nonprofit stepped in to help fund Jervon’s college education. Today, she speaks to the kids who are just like her. “So she’s on the phone...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
Countries, Four Kids by Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA 1968) (Robert Stobaugh) Prosper: Create the Life You Really Want by Ethan Willis and Randy Garn (both OPM 39, 2010) (Berrett-Koehler Publisher)
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- 02 Apr 2014
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Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
science and engineering. But those paths never felt like quite the right fit. "Since high school, I had done volunteer work with homeless kids and vulnerable children and domestic violence victims," she says. "Somehow, that really spoke...
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- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
kids mathematics or to teach non-English speakers how to read English in third grade, or how to better inhibit suicidal patients from taking their own lives,” he notes. Offensend is currently focused on increasing the organization’s...
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- 01 Apr 1999
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A Vibrant Brand
12-to 24-year-olds, the magazine does not accept advertising from cigarette and alcohol manufacturers. Hip hop is known for its profanity, and Blaze uses a creative smudge technique to avoid printing any offensive words. "It would be moralistic and foolish to think...
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Susan Young
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
in bringing kids out of the bush. And in fact, one study showed that Kony's army had been depleted down to just 200 fighters, and that from the intake interviews, with the people coming out of the bush, 80% of them were saying that it was...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Happy Monday
Primary.com’s policy says that employees are free to use their Fridays however they wish. Get a haircut, take the kids to the orthodontist or watch TV while they’re at school, or possibly finish up a work task. “It’s all fair game,”...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Offshore Learning
National Science Foundation grant to implement an ambitious inquiry-based science curriculum.” Highest and Best Use With that synergy as a starting point, since 2009, Thompson Island’s Connections program and the science department of Boston Public Schools have...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Banishing Balkan Ghosts
around in the fridge, he cocks an ear toward the snippets of TV news in the background: “Labor unrest...Organized crime...Protesting pensioners.” Welcome to Belgrade and the legacy of Milosevic. Now meet the man who wants to change all that — Bozidar Djelic (MBA/MPA...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2006
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Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
become one of the first female executives at Sports Illustrated in 1983. She had acquired a passion for sports from her father and "had been a Sports Illustrated fan for years and really enjoyed the magazine," she recalls. Moore founded Sports Illustrated for View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed
university storage facility, benefits from student energy. They buzz about the expansive lab space, which is stocked with 3D printers, circuit board builders, and a wall full of electronic parts and wires. Two other sections of the facility offer access to heavy...
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- 23 Sep 2020
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Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
Alumni How to Deploy the Case Method to Raise Confident Kids When Anne Jones (MBA 1997) was in her first year at HBS, she says she often worried that she didn’t belong there. “I was thinking, ‘how am I here?’ but it was the case method...
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Margie Kelley