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- 01 Dec 2001
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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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- 01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled
back up to speed academically? Sal Khan: As we look to the next several months, we are thinking about how students are going to show up to school with huge gaps in their knowledge. Some kids will keep learning and might even accelerate....
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- 13 Mar 2018
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Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
about what happened. I remember in 2010, I was on my way to a school called the Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. I was driving there from Savannah, Georgia, and I got to St. Louis. And I stopped for dinner. My wife and View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
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The Burning Man Project
the sake of your enjoyment. But what we all know is when we give a gift, the giver feels amazing as well. It feels much more like a family. You don't keep track of how many peanut butter sandwiches you've made for your kids over their...
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- 30 Jul 2024
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Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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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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- 01 Sep 2024
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Ink: Framing the Full Picture
Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,...
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- 27 Oct 2016
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Paying It Forward
saved the lives of hundreds of children since it was first established nearly 30 years ago. “It’s an amazing story,” says Kundu. “A man named Balaram Karan was working in a village one day when he found an abandoned baby on the road. Despite having four View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 26 Oct 2015
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Sal Khan Goes Back to School
the classroom, in the form of Khan Lab School, an educational “R&D lab” in Mountain View, California. The fact that the school goes year-round – meaning there’s no summer vacation, kids – is just the beginning of how different the program...
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- 25 Apr 2014
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Creation of parks connects people to nature and each other
Will Rogers (MBA 1985) recognizes the power of the natural world. As president and CEO of the Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit that works to conserve land for use as parks and gardens, he helps ensure that nature sticks around for quite some time, for his...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Making TV Look Like America
Jackie Burgos (MBA 2014) intends to run a TV network to promote programming diversity, making TV more reflective of the world in which we live. “I think I’ve always been the kid who has big dreams; life otherwise wouldn’t be fun,” says...
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- 12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
dad or single mom who’s got to pick up their kid from soccer practice on Friday afternoon. If all of a sudden being part of the Cloudflare team requires you to come out drinking with us, they’re not going to think that that’s a very...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
as a child and worked at the Museum of Natural History for a year before applying to HBS. “We have to decide on the most user-friendly method of con-veying exhibit information to, say, a parent with three small kids and no spare hands. We...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
consumers shop around, gets him visibly agitated. "Practically speaking, we can't even move an MRI from one guy to the next, and both have electronic medical records—are you kidding me?" (His reputation precedes him: "I've been very, very...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)
about tomorrow morning?" and drove all night from Montreal to get there. I learned that kids from Harvard, Stanford, and Yale weren't necessarily smarter, but they did have two incredible advantages: exposure to leaders and an expanded...
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- 22 Nov 2011
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A Storybook Beginning
our ‘customers’ — kids who otherwise wouldn’t get to read Robinson Crusoe or his own childhood favorite Half Magic.” Creating Worldreader has also allowed for personal growth, says Risher, who was recently honored with a Microsoft...
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- 02 May 2016
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Building Startup Skills for Business and Life
the program in 2004 and taught the first few sessions himself, says, “My belief going in was that E360 would give at-risk kids an opportunity to take control of their futures.” The curriculum fosters entrepreneurial skills and attitudes...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Back from the Brink
buyout of ZeroChaos in 2004, Mills projects the firm to be a $1 billion operation by 2010. “It’s always a great discussion to have with your wife when you’ve got three kids and a mortgage, but she was the one who looked me in the eye and...
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- 22 Sep 2015
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Investing in Scalable Impact on K-12 Education
video, Wu talks about what inspired her decision to focus her career on making a difference in education. “I realized a few years ago, because of a friend who asked me what problem in the world was something I felt compelled to solve, that it was this question of...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Ink
Tracking.” Excerpt “They’d watch for the ice man, pick up the small loose pieces that fell when he was carrying the ice, and suck on them like popsicles. They used to stand under the railway bridge at Queen and De Grassi Streets when the steam engine was on the tracks....
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