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Merit-Based Admissions, Need-Based Aid | MBA

IS possible to afford an HBS MBA. With generous support from our alumni, we are able to offer need-based financial aid that considerably reduces the price of our program." Play My MBAid Story: Christine Keung, (MBA 2020) video Play Video duration: 4:44 Christine Keung,... View Details
  • January 2010
  • Case

Pratham - Every Child in School and Learning Well

By: Srikant M. Datar, Stacey M. Childress, Rachna Tahilyani and Anjali Raina
The case focuses on how Pratham, a non-governmental organization, provided quality education to underprivileged children in India by collaborating with the government. It focuses on the problem Madhav Chavan, the founder, is trying to solve, the contributing factors... View Details
Keywords: Non-Governmental Organizations; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Social and Collaborative Networks; Performance Evaluation; Change Management; Organizational Design; Early Childhood Education; Management Systems; Strategy; Quality; Education Industry; India
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  • July 1989
  • Article

Immunizing Children Against the Negative Effects of Reward

By: B. A. Hennessey, T. M. Amabile and M. Martinage
Two studies were conducted to examine the effect of intrinsic motivation training on children's subsequent motivational orientation and creativity in an expected reward situation. Past research has demonstrated the overjustification effect: Children who work on an... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Training; Early Childhood Education; Learning; Teaching
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  • 17 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

What to Expect from your First Week at HBS

I’m originally from Turkey but I spent large portions of my childhood in New York, Greece, and Italy. I returned to Turkey to complete my undergraduate degree and worked in management consulting back home in Istanbul before completing a... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

2019 Martin Aares (MBA 2001) had always known his childhood interest in the environment would be part ... Checking in with 2019 Goldsmith Fellows: Fall of First Year 31 Oct 2019 Harvard Business School awards Horace W. Goldsmith... View Details
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Delving Deeper into Development with the Joint MBA/MPA-ID Program | MBA

up in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest commercial hub, and in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. I have fond memories of my childhood such as learning about Nigeria’s history on my grandpa’s walking tours of Lagos Island, celebrating Eid holidays... View Details
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Jay Khil

A childhood in the United States, an adolescence in South Korea, a semester abroad  in China, and a career launch in Dearborn, Michigan – by any measure, Jay Khil is a woman with an international perspective that comes from her core. “The... View Details
  • 29 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact

business & environment opportunities and risks. BEI helps to connect current MBAs with these alumni for learning and careers. We recently spoke with one such alum about his career journey.     Martin Aares (MBA 2001) had always known his View Details
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Fereshteh Zeineddin

women in all corners of the world, from executives on Wall Street to Middle Eastern women who use cosmetics as a form of self expression. Fereshteh's appreciation for what cosmetics can do for women grew out of her unique background. Born in Iran, she spent much of her... View Details
  • October 2001
  • Case

SchoolSuccess.net

By: James E. Austin and Arthur McCaffrey
The mission of the nonprofit Jumpstart for Young Children was to address the problem of school readiness of low-income family preschoolers. It had been growing significantly, and to achieve its projected expansion would require major increases in funding. After... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Early Childhood Education; Venture Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Startups; Management Teams
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  • 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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  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

of performance feedback in motivating productivity in repetitive tasks. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-078.pdf Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior Authors:Francesca Gino and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Kristie Gan

enchanting.  I looked forward to it every year to cool down the blistering summers.  But one day after I had been playing in the rain, I found myself gasping for air as my grandmother rushed me to an emergency room.  This was the day I was diagnosed with severe... View Details
  • 11 Jul 2016
  • Blog Post

Career Resources to Consider Before You Arrive at HBS

search. But what about those already in your network? Do they know that you are going to get your MBA? Have you talked with classmates from college, current and former colleagues, as well as childhood friends and acquaintances about your... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

School of Hard Knocks

were now ill-prepared for a very different demographic reality. Although I was no longer the object of discrimination, I couldn't shake off the knowledge of what it's like to be harassed and terrorized because you are different. Indeed, my View Details
Keywords: discrimination; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
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Mike Watitwa

efforts elsewhere. What is your favorite childhood memory? My parents practised small-scale farming. During the holidays, they would occasionally allow my siblings and me to join other casual laborers to work their maize plantation and... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1997
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Taylor R. M. Keen

tell you, means "those who move against the current," and for Keen, who is always stretching the conventional thinking in whatever community he travels, the name couldn't be more fitting. Spending most of his childhood on his parents'... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 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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Carter Romansky

childhood education or global health delivery. "Many organizations are great at being small- to medium-sized," notes Carter. "I want to help them become huge. The trick is figuring out what you can scale up, what things you... View Details
  • 02 Jun 2015
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Pointing the Way to a Better World

to research and write the book, film the documentary, and promote both projects on a speaking tour last fall. While she returns to her financial work this year, she knows the book’s work—to inspire change—is far from over. Whether it’s fighting for access to early... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley