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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Batteries and Chocolates
double or triple duty. Sometimes, being the woman means great things fall at your feet. More often, though, it means another Saturday afternoon or Thursday evening spent showing up to make someone else look better. It doesn't have to be this way. Women can have View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
An engine of innovation in public education
graduate school of education, and operates a publishing and consulting arm that distributes the results of its work in large school districts. “The goal in our schools is to break through to a situation where we can truly prepare kids for...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
2007) The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz Horowitz on perception: “I was the only kid on the football team who was also on the highest academic track in math .As a result, I ended up moving in multiple social circles and...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
71 Snapshots
Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter Starting Now —...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Noted & Quoted
“You are kidding me. I went to Harvard Business School. I’m the reason the microwave tray rotates.” — Actor ALEC BALDWIN as Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock, from the episode “Don Geiss, America and Hope.” “Women are using (an MBA) not only for...
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- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
mess. The work is already so hard. It’s a blessing to do it, I would not want to work in service to anyone else in terms of the communities of color that we serve in the community that we serve, but it’s tough. It’s really tough. Our kids...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
in order to maintain equity in our society, so most of my volunteer activities have been in the area of education. Hope for your kids What more can you want for your children than that they find people to love and work that they are...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Changing Lives One Computer at a Time
close the digital divide that exists in low-income communities where many families don't have a computer at home. "It's such a compelling idea," says Edward Olebe (MBA '99), who has coordinated the project for the HBSAAA in New York. "Not only do these View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
Laurent Chenot “I want to raise my kids for whoever they are, not for what I want them to be.” First Novel: Angel, written, looking for publisher Born: Sainte-Adresse, France First Trip to United States: summer 1994, intern at Michelin in...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
EducationSuperHighway helped the district install fiber-optic cable. Because of the faster and more reliable service, the district can now provide “one-to-one” computing—meaning each student has a device in the classroom. “Everything is online and in apps. We’re moving...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
another network has expressed interest.” TV limits at home? No firm hours. “My kids work so bloody hard in school that we’re pretty good about letting them decompress the way they need to—what bothers me more is that they watch reality...
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- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
be an entrepreneur. Growing up in the Swedish-built mining town of Yekepa in northern Liberia, she started her first business when she was 12 — an after-school activities company; parents paid her to keep their kids busy. "I didn't know...
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- 01 May 2013
- News
Warren Luke, MBA 1970
biography: “Education is one of the most important things in life my life, everyone’s life, the country’s life. The kids who are growing and getting an education today are eventually going to run the country.” In addition to a family...
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- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Adoption
organization has helped more than 300 children in orphanages across the United States and in 35 countries. Taylor’s hope for Pathway’s future success includes professional counseling for adoptees and their new families. “These families are not wealthy—they have very...
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- 29 Sep 2020
- News
A Righteous Path
back to an unbelievably violent situation without the minimum of a lawyer by their side,” Leimsider says. “We are going to have to rebuild an immigration system that sees children as children and treats them with all the care and support that any of us would want our...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
the conversations were not about business. They were about what the Detroit Lions did that week or what was happening with a kid in my class. Coming into the corporate environment felt like a foreign language to me.” Pass it on: “Having...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Net Gains
responsibility. "We're trying to teach these kids not just about the game but also about life," says Tatum. The next step in developing the market—which Tatum notes has one of the youngest populations of any region in the world—is an NBA...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
some of the case examples were unacceptable, there was another side to this story. One of my classmates mentioned how in their country some families can't afford food, and that sometimes the only option is to have their kids start working...
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- 19 May 2015
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Getting Ready for Success
inspired me to reach higher, I don’t think I would have even considered the Ivy League. That’s a trap even the brightest kids in public high school graduates experience even today.” After Penn, Huebner headed to Wall Street for a job at...
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- 10 Mar 2016
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Can Doug Lemov Save US Soccer?
difficulty many American students have solving problems independently. “If you give [American] kids a math problem and tell them how to solve it,” he said, “they can usually do it. But if you give them a problem and it’s not clear how to...
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