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  • Portrait Project

Sabina Robinov

My mother passed away when I was nine. As the oldest child, I spent my childhood taking care of my three young siblings while my dad worked tirelessly to provide for us.  At an early age, my priorities became clear. I quickly learned to... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Assaf Harlap

Too overweight to ever be chosen for football practice, uninspired by school, dealing with a family divorce, and spending several unforgettable days in a bomb shelter — sweating and shivering in my gas mask during the Gulf War — my View Details
  • March 2018
  • Case

Summit Public Schools (A)

By: John J-H Kim and Aldo Sesia
Summit Public Schools was a very successful charter management organization with schools in California and Washington State. The students came from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds, many from economically disadvantaged households. While nearly all of its students... View Details
Keywords: K-12; Online Learning; Virtual Learning; Blended Learning; Secondary Education; Middle School Education; Early Childhood Education; Learning; Business Model; Performance Improvement; Technology
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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Portrait Project

Nneka Ezeigwe

lucky, mostly, but a big part of me wishes I had the choice to grow up in the land of my birth, wishes I had the choice to attend high school and university with childhood friends, wishes I had the choice to start my career close to... View Details
  • Profile

Felipe Núñez

that you have an army of friends with you that will teach you how to operate your parachute and land with as much grace as humanly possible. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? Funny. What is your favorite childhood... View Details
  • Portrait Project

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
  • Portrait Project

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
  • Portrait Project

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
  • 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
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China

By: Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger and Se Yan
Our paper provides a comparative perspective on the development of public primary education in four of the largest developing economies circa 1910: Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). These four countries encompassed more than 50 percent of the world's population... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Early Childhood Education; Government and Politics; Wealth and Poverty; China; India; Russia; Brazil
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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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
  • 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