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  • Portrait Project

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
  • 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
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

http://people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/Investor_Sentiment_JFE_Article_In_Press.pdf Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior Authors:F. Gino and S. Desai Publication:Journal of Personality and Social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Government, Business and Making China an Educational Powerhouse Since the 1980s

By: Geoffrey Jones, Yuan Jia-Zheng, Yuhai Wu and Qianru Wang
This article examines how China successfully built a highly competent K-12 education system since the 1980s achieving high literacy rates, broad basic education and gender equality. It argues that this success was driven by a strategy of blending public and private... View Details
Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Secondary Education; Literacy; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Business and Government Relations; Policy; Education Industry; China
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  • March–April 2022
  • Article

School Choice in Chile

By: Jose Correa, Natalie Epstein, Rafael Epstein, Juan Escobar, Ignacio Rios, Nicolas Aramayo, Bastian Bahamondes, Carlos Bonet, Martin Castillo, Andres Cristi, Boris Epstein and Felipe Subiabre
Centralized school admission mechanisms are an attractive way of improving social welfare and fairness in large educational systems. In this paper, we report the design and implementation of the newly established school choice system in Chile, where over 274,000... View Details
Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Secondary Education; Middle School Education; Family and Family Relationships; Welfare; Chile
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  • Portrait Project

Carl Petty

I look at the rest of my life as one big bonus round. The decade I spent flying fighters in the Navy was a childhood dream come true – more than I ever could have asked for. But I left the Navy feeling an obligation placed on me by... View Details
  • Profile

Zayed Muhammed Yasin

designing wouldn't be satisfying to me." Looking for an alternative approach to international development As an undergraduate, Zayed spent a summer in Albania working with refugees from the war in Kosovo. After graduation, he spent a year in Pakistan doing public... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Olivia vonNieda

I’ve lived the life people dream of for their children. I grew up in the town of Paradise, PA to parents who were brought up into stable, privileged homes. The name of my hometown accurately describes my idyllic childhood – full of love... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Drew Johnson

childhood growing up in the quintessential midwestern neighborhood. What came next can only be described as the best in humanity: neighbors helping neighbors, an outpouring of support from communities nearby, and the kindness of total... View Details
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Jeanine Barnett

I do what I do because I believe that creativity and competitiveness are not mutually exclusive concepts. Daily, as I draw on fond memories of a Caribbean childhood filled with countless moments on theatre stages and tennis courts, I am... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Josh Latson

realized that I had not done much – my time had been spent building myself up and contributing little to the world around me. I thought again of those words to be etched in stone and my childhood worries soon returned. "Here lies a... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

A Man of Influence

childhood as the grandson of Sicilian immigrants to World War II, when he piloted a B-25 attack bomber, to his time as an aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson, to his 39 years amongst the movers and shakers of Hollywood as leader of the... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Seth Cohen

been eclipsed by ones of a more personal nature. Of immigrating alone to the U.S. as a teenager. Of being the first in the family to graduate high school. Of drawing strength from the death of a childhood friend. Of failure, and how it... View Details
  • Profile

Juan Camargo

car—which is due in showrooms next month—for the American market. (Though that was nice, too.) The moment also represented a high point in a love affair with cars that began with childhood kart racing and included a few HBS-to-Montreal... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology; Consumer Products
  • Profile

Olivia Melendez

to cast her next blockbuster hit. Then in 7th grade, a psychic at my friend’s birthday party predicted I’d go on to become a soap opera star. I guess I’m still waiting for my shot What is your favorite childhood memory? There’s a home... View Details
  • 05 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Silent Lessons

there.”Because your shield has failed. Black children learn, we quickly learn,That the world doesn’t see our parents as we see them.So, we start to ask:“Officer, will you shoot us?”Black children learn that childhood walks away.Our... View Details
  • 18 Jul 2019
  • News

A Category Leader

to a couple of strengths. Being attuned to other people and the diversity of their needs came from my childhood traveling with my father, because he interacted with people of all different levels. “Also, developing people is really... View Details
  • October 2022
  • Case

EducationSuperHighway 2.0

By: William A. Sahlman, Allison M. Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean
In 2012, Evan Marwell launched EducationSuperHighway (ESH) to address a major problem: though most public K-12 schools in the US had access to the Internet, only roughly 30% had true broadband access that would enable every student to have high speed connectivity. ... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Issues; Leading Change; Early Childhood Education; Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Telecommunications Industry; Education Industry; Technology Industry; United States; San Francisco
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  • 1982
  • Article

Children's Artistic Creativity: Detrimental Effects of Competition in a Field Setting

By: T. M. Amabile
Girls whose ages ranged from 7 to 11 years made paper collages during 1 of 2 residential parties. Those in the experimental group were competing for prizes, whereas those in the control group expected that the prizes would be raffled off. Artist-judges later rated each... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Early Childhood Education; Motivation and Incentives; Situation or Environment; Competition; Teaching
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  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Case Study: Growing the Family Business

(Zoonar RF/Thinkstock; iStock) Sweet Kiddles is a new concept in center-based childcare. Unlike traditional centers where parents must commit to fixed full- or part-time schedules, Sweet Kiddles’ flexible scheduling allows families to use the center by the hour or by... View Details
Keywords: childcare; Finance