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- 02 May 2016
- News
Motivating Middle-Schoolers to Get up to Speed with Math
Veteran entrepreneur and public education innovator Bill Daugherty (MBA 1991) is on a mission to get kids excited about math. In addition to his profit-sector job as executive chairman of ANC Sports Enterprises, Daugherty has been the...
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- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Nourishing the Next Generation
developed a lot of their food habits, yet,” Kohn says. “If you present them with healthy food options and there is good, positive peer pressure from their classmates, their teachers, and their families, these kids will try new things.”...
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David Askaryan
A few times every year in elementary school, a bunch of students would get suckered into selling candy for a school fundraiser. Each kid was aggressively encouraged to sell a minimum number of candies at fifty cents per piece. If students...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Shaking Up the System
founded BLS in 2004 and has been its principal ever since. A Teach For America alumnus, Sternberg insists on teachers and a curriculum that engage his students — youngsters from the neighborhood, who are not specially selected. “The kids...
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Vaibhav Singh
kinship for the fellow traveler and a sense of adventure for the uncharted future, gives meaning to life. The world needs to rediscover this essential lesson from the road. Like the kid at the end of Camelot, I will travel far and wide,...
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Patrick MacKenzie
22-year-old outsider, I felt powerless in standing up against. I will never again let myself feel powerless in fighting for something I believe in, in fighting for kids who deserve better. I want to create, lead, and grow schools where...
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Craig Maughan
hugs, dirty diapers, squeals, tears, and smiles are teaching me sacrifice, patience, and love. Mostly love. In exchange, I do my best to keep my kids well-fed and pointed in a good direction. I’m not sure it’s a fair exchange; this world...
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Maxene Tuchman
"A kid got shot at the football game on Friday. Is he one of your students?" I was a teacher at Miami Northwestern High School, and my Teach For America summer training had not prepared me for the phone call I received from a...
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- 11 Dec 2019
- News
A Righteous Path
1,001 kids we represent, if they didn’t have Safe Passage, only 130 of them would win their cases,” Leimsider says. With legal assistance from Safe Passage, he estimates, about 900 of the children will win their cases. But that’s not...
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Clint Lawrence
strength of God and with the support of those whom I cherish, I can effect change around me. In my Barbados and the Caribbean, the opportunities for me to transform the landscape are endless. I want to help kids be innovative...
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- 14 Mar 2018
- News
Do the Things You Love
important, but it really isn't. You're going to graduate from the Harvard Business School or you are a graduate of the Harvard Business School, or you wouldn't be watching this, and you're going to be fine. There's going to be enough money for a nice place to live and...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Fred Newman
and helped shape and appears daily on Between the Lions, a PBS program that helps kids learn to read. Newman, a Georgia native who came to HBS after a job selling carpets, punctuates ordinary conversations with scene-setting sounds: a...
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- 09 Nov 2016
- News
The Seeds of Learning
“I think that kids these days are spending way too much time taking tests and doing rote memorization when they need to be outside and learning from experience. It reduces stress and improves behavior; it improves test scores. It is kind...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
“Running a household with two busy kids activates the chief of staff in me. I know it sounds funny, but I find time every week for a one-on-one with each of my sons to work through a list of questions to help me map out the week ahead....
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- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Learning Curve
also needed interaction with other children. “They also said there were lots of other kids in Houston who needed this,” Melcher observes. The Joy School began in 1997 as an experiment, with just four students—Katie and three others...
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- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
money for the schools,” says Scheel. “Most of us either have or had kids in Palo Alto schools, so that’s a huge motivator.” Over the years, the band has expanded both its set list and client base. “We still play fundraisers that target...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Film School
in school programs and real-world job skills," Seder observed. "It is meant to lure them into filmmaking. Kids discuss the films and have to think of a way that is real and mature to get out of bad situations." Since BPA was formed, more...
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Jayon Wang
freeze your drink. Teachers and friends all laughed knowingly, “Jayon is at it again!” For my first ‘real job’, I launched a grand plan to fix Big Oil from the inside. An Asian-American liberal kid showing up in Houston with East-Coast...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Leading Quietly
eight chapters - whose titles include "Craft a Compromise," "Don't Kid Yourself," "Buy a Little Time," and "Bend the Rules" - is gleaned from the quiet leaders Badaracco studied. The book is full of practical advice, but Badaracco...
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- 26 Feb 2008
- News
The Right Stuff at HBS
us who work at HBS, such gestures make us feel good about the place. Brighton kids and coach celebrate a job well done. Photos by Neal Hamberg The Brighton Bengals are an inner-city team. Its players take public transportation to practice...
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