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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Changing Lives One Computer at a Time
innovation. Although the program usually consists of one teacher and the students, the involvement of adult facilitators has proven to be a powerful added benefit for both the children and the HBS volunteers. Dell will share the HBSAAA... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
thousands of children in his native country. He went on fact-finding missions, acquiring intel from Vanessa Kirsch, CEO of New Profit, a Boston-based venture philanthropy fund supported by the Monitor Group and HBS professor Michael... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
Sonne explained that children are attracted to dandelions, intrigued by them, but as people get older they begin to see them as weeds. “A weed is really a plant in an unwanted place. If you take that plant to a wanted place you’ll find... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
comprising the vast majority of microfinance entrepreneurs worldwide, children are a chief beneficiary of the power of microfinance. Michael Chu, a private-equity specialist at KKR before joining ACCION International, was instrumental in... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
children into the company. Eventually, in-laws and cousins may find themselves working together and trying to manage an intricate set of relationships as the organization expands and formalizes processes that were hit-or-miss during the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Yla Eason (MBA 1977)
Back in 1985, my son Menelik, who was three years old, told me he couldn’t be a superhero because he wasn’t white. That was a shock. When children don’t see themselves represented, research shows it has a negative effect on self-esteem,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Fellowships Have Impact
with Children Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship Program for Not-for-Profit Management Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York Financial Aid Fund George and Edith Weed Willman Fund “It would have been difficult for me to attend HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
benefits of community; each year, Berkley gathers with a close cohort for an annual fly-fishing expedition to Montana. “I’m fortunate to have a strong relationship with my three children and their families,” he says. “And I call a friend... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Turning Point: Step Change
responded, “I must. Otherwise, what are we doing? It’s my duty to do so.” So we helped fix the roof. After the terrible things that happened to people on both sides of the conflict, his forgiveness and willingness to welcome the children... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Turning Point: Power Outlet
around was a fact that had stayed with me ever since I heard it: Black boys as young as 10 years old are no longer viewed as innocent children but as a potential threat and aggressor. That made me feel like I was on the clock with my own... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
children in real-life situations as they learn experientially through play in familiar environments using a mobile device. canada PIXIE is a website that connects passionate, small product companies, designers, and artisans with their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Record-Breaking Gift for Fellowships
father had to take on loans, and it was his dream to have his own children attend college without the burden of debt or having to work during school,” said Jeannie, noting that her father became an investment banker partly in order to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Air Time
completing my MBA at HBS. I had no nanny, no partner, nothing; only the wonderful team at Soldiers Field Park Children Center where I would drop off my daughter and then proceed to my classes. What did I do during evening events/classes... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Teaching kids lessons in making choices and tradeoffs
Nan Morrison (MBA 1987) is CEO of the Council for Economic Education, based in New York City. In this video, conducted prior to the W50 celebration of women in the full-time MBA Program at HBS in 2013, she explains how her organization teaches school View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
moments of a boy’s life. Silent Winds, Dry Seas is a poetic, powerful, and universal novel of identity and place, of the legacies of colonialism, tradition, modernity, and emigration, and of what a family will sacrifice for its children... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
Children learning remotely often have to rely on parents or a sibling for help. The pandemic has caused the largest disruption of education systems in history, affecting more than one billion learners in more than 190 countries, according... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Class of 1997 Graduates with Distinction
Class of '99 Profile Number of applicants 7,467 Total size of class 880 September cohort 560 January cohort 320 Median age 26 Women 30% Minorities 17% International 26% Married 20% Have children 4% Undergraduate Majors Engineering and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
and supported the track programs at Stanford and at Drake University, where Johnson’s father began his coaching career in 1928. Closer to home, the foundation supports several smaller nonprofits that help local youth. “This town nurtured me,” says Johnson, whose four... View Details
- 18 Mar 2021
- News
Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
for innovation and show people how to overcome their own blind spots. He lives with his wife and his 2 children in Atlanta, GA. MODERATOR Bill George Harvard Business School (HBS) Senior Fellow and former Chair & CEO of Medtronic... View Details