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01 Dec 2014
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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

01 Mar 2024
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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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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

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Lincoln Alabaster

Family and film. These are the ways I will ensure that the legacy of R. Lincoln Alabaster lives on long after I'm gone. I desire to someday be the type of husband who is devoted to his wife, and pray to be the kind of father whose kids admire him in both their View Details

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Dan Vallone

sense of wonder with me. But I was lucky. My parents filled my childhood with these moments. Moments that made me look up and believe anything is possible. I want to spend my life creating these moments. When I am a father, I want to... View Details

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Foluke Otudeko

When I was six I contracted childhood measles and went blind for a number of days. As a result, I learned to truly appreciate the gift of sight and even beyond that the importance of vision. Over the years, I discovered there are two... View Details

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Brendan Sullivan

ourselves. They inspired us to work to improve the lives of others even, and perhaps especially, when to do so is daunting. Twenty-five years later, I continue to care for the elderly. But now they are my patients, and all too often, their expressions reveal suffering... View Details

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Brian Elliot

address global poverty. Our world is far too rich with resources for billions to go hungry. "And if not now, when?" Two years ago, a falling telecom cable struck my head and nearly took my life. I don't know where I'll be standing when the next cable falls.... 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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Christine Cuoco

I remember sitting in my grandmother's Brooklyn kitchen as a kid while she prepared little-meatball soup and stuffed artichokes and told me stories of her childhood in Agropoli, Italy. My grandmother's fondness for her homeland inspired... View Details

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Brian Sykes

Syringe needles lining the sidewalk. I’m ashamed, yet I know these words are true. When people hear I grew up in SF, they automatically assume my childhood consisted of immense privilege. Million-dollar mansions and fancy jobs in tech. In... View Details

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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

01 Mar 2007
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Pursuing a passion

Michelle Crames and Jeff Norton (both MBA ’ 03) of a company called Lean Forward Media. “Michelle and Jeff discovered they shared a childhood passion for a series of books called Choose Your Own Adventure, which allowed readers to select... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

24 Apr 2014
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Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India

Through the Bharti Foundation, which was launched in 2000, Sunil Bharti Mittal (OPM 27, 1999), founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises, advances his belief that quality education is the most important tool for social and economic development. Bharti Enterprises, one... View Details

August 30, 2022
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School Choice Increases Racial Segregation Even When Parents Do Not Care About Race

By: Kalinda Ukanwa, Aziza C. Jones and Broderick L. Turner Jr.

This research examines how school choice impacts school segregation. Specifically, this work demonstrates that even if parents do not take the racial demographics of schools into account, preference differences between Black and White parents for other school... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Race; Policy; Early Childhood Education; Middle School Education; Secondary Education

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Anita Lynch

around the house warding off the loneliness and fear to gain a feeling of hope, connectedness, and belonging to something greater than myself. I now realize how much an inner sense of belonging in the world inspires me to achieve great things. These difficult times in... View Details

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Pamela Harder

Melinda Gates Foundation, Hewlett Foundation), to K12 school districts & education-focused organizations (Pittsburgh Public Schools, Virginia early childhood education collective). Pam has worked with a number of MBA and MBA/MPP joint... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Education; Emerging Markets; Government; Social Enterprise; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Energy; Consumer Finance; Financial Services (All); Impact Investing; Financial Services (All)

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Victoria Papalian

purest form of that type of environment. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A teacher. What is your favorite childhood memory? Lining up my stuffed animals and teaching them math in pursuit of my dream to become a... View Details

01 Mar 2006
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Scaling Peaks for Cancer Research

MOUNTAIN CLIMBING TRIO: Bishop, Murphy, and Serafini stay in shape. Three HBS students are out to set a world record by scaling the seven tallest mountains on seven continents in seven months — all to raise $5 million to help fight View Details

Keywords: pediatric cancer research; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

16 Apr 2021
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Shekeyla Caldwell Sandore: Why 'A Name Like Mine' Matters

inclusive and respectful. Tell us about your book, A Name Like Mine. The book is a true story; it is my childhood experience mixed with my adult understanding. It’s the story of a little girl who loves her name until other people tell her... View Details

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