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  • 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
  • 2016
  • Case

Denver Public Schools 2015: Innovation and Performance?

By: Michael Tushman, Colin Maclay and Kerry Herman
Keywords: Innovation; Education Reform; Education; Secondary Education; Middle School Education; Early Childhood Education; Innovation Strategy; Education Industry; Colorado
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  • 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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Domingo Garcia-Huidobro

time and I dreamed about seeing them closer. I still encourage my nieces and nephews to become astronauts. What is your favorite childhood memory? Being the youngest of a large family, alone time with my mom was very scarce. I loved that... 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
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Diane Hessan

I grew up in a working-class town where children grew up, got married, and moved into their childhood homes. Everyone was happy but didn't much care about the rest of the world. I read every copy of National Geographic I could, and on a... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Alyssa Wilson

be in my eulogy? Last year I emptied my childhood home, boxing my dad’s sailing trophies and business recognitions plus my brother’s attendance certificates and ski ribbons. Mementos of accomplishments long forgotten, sitting on dusty... View Details
  • 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... View Details
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Storytelling: A Method for Assessing Children's Creativity

By: B. A. Hennessey and T. M. Amabile
Keywords: Creativity; Measurement and Metrics; Early Childhood Education; Research; Performance Evaluation
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  • 18 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew

remote now, in different parts of the country. Olivia’s apartment has become a 3D printing factory (we’re up to three 3D printers in her childhood bedroom), running almost 24/7. Our testing has gone virtual, with face-to-face interviews... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Katy Lankester

I spent most of my childhood in a place that cared a lot about appearances. The 'pretty' girls were thin and went to extraordinary lengths to stay that way. I didn't want to go on 'celery diets' – I wanted to be an athlete; I wanted to be... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Crowdfunding capital for small business

James ("Brad") McGee (MBA 1987) cofounded iCrowd to bring entrepreneurs together in online communities to network and to help provide the financial and commercial resources businesses need to thrive. He launched the crowdfunding website in 2013 with View Details
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Turning Point: Eternal Returns

Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely... View Details
Keywords: life experience; search firm; entrepreneurship
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Sadiq Gillani

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better. And your better best." With these words my mother inspired me throughout my childhood I am going to apply that energy to help transform the airline industry and,... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Ana Kotevska Tracey

express my own personal, multifaceted identity. And my identity—a dedication to mentorship that evolved from my traditional Balkan upbringing, and a passion for innovation spawned from my childhood curiosity—has guided my actions since.... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Sue Yang

lifelong friendships, welcoming communities, and new career possibilities. They also found an abundance of resources to enrich my childhood on little means – I grew up a young and happy denizen of its public museums, libraries, and... View Details
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Karibu Nyaggah

Frolicking in the sun. Puddle-jumping in the rain. Teasing my sisters. Feasting on dessert. Sipping tea. Family vacations on white sandy beaches. This was my childhood in Kenya where at school, a diverse curriculum of the arts, math,... View Details