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- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
down from mentors or parents and, in the process, create a dividing line between those who inherently know how to navigate a workplace environment and everyone else. After working as a career advisor for first-generation and low-income... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Roadmap for Moms
retain women during their child-rearing years or permit them to take a break and come back. What’s the experience been like for you personally? I’m showing my kids that it’s possible to be both a parent and a professional, and I think... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
students, teachers, and parents real-time reports on student progress. In the same classroom, you’ll have some fifth graders working on trigonometry and some reviewing basic arithmetic. The teacher no longer spends class time lecturing,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
serve.” This outreach includes wellness-check phone calls and handwritten letters aimed at students, parent resource packets, a virtual self-care program for teachers, and a virtual appreciation lunch program each month for staff members.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
deteriorated, and crime increased. "I remember feeling that my parents and neighbors were victims of forces beyond their control," Jones says. Later, while earning a degree at the University of San Diego, Jones, at age 23, became chief of... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)
We moved to Toronto from Mombasa, Kenya, when I was eight and my brother [Asif Satchu, MBA 1999] was six. For my parents to decide to come here and start a new life was, in many ways, THe ultimate risk. The immigrant experience is... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
GARRETT Ashley Garrett's 20 years as director of All Souls Soup Kitchen fed her soul. Raised and educated as a Quaker, Garrett (MBA 1987) says her family's values—consensus, equality, service, and integrity—provided her a solid foundation for a life of service. "My... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
a brand that resonates with children and parents — and even grandparents — alike. While the company has experienced significant volatility in recent years, LEGO has maintained its position in the top five toy brands for the last twenty... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
IN HIS ELEMENT: Peter Thayer has spotted nearly 3,500 species of birds...and counting. Peter Thayer (MBA ’73) didn’t recognize the little bird hopping about in his backyard outside Cincinnati. His parents had given him a field guide for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Author: Thomas H. Fischgrund (MBA ’80)
want to use their skills to have an impact on the world. Ninety percent plan to go to graduate school. How did you score on the SAT? I took the test in 1966 and scored in the 1300s. What’s your next book? I’m interviewing the parents of... View Details
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
and to be better, and it's a great tool to help them succeed in school, a profession, university, or whatever," he explains. Sometimes the biggest change isn't in the kids but in the parents. The more the young people succeed at their chosen sport, the more confident... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
providers to build shared mobile towers. As Akhil Gupta (AMP 163, 2002), a colleague since 1994 puts it, “Sunil gets to the bottom of the problem without going around in circles.” Mittal and his wife of 33 years, Nyna, are the proud View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
and social justice in the conduct of capitalism. When Massie was an infant, his youthful parents received a stunning diagnosis: Their lively firstborn was a hemophiliac. The family's life in New York's Westchester County became dominated... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids By Daisy Dowling (MBA 2002) Harvard Business Review Press Sure, there are plenty of parenting books out there. But as working moms and dads, we’ve never had a trusted, go-to guide all... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Turning Point: Crossover
work in real estate investment to make coaching a full-time commitment; and I wanted to do it in my hometown of San Francisco, simply because I wanted to be closer to my parents and my brother and sister. Now I serve as the full-time head... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
employees have spouses or partners who are also employed, compared with 66 percent in 1988. Nearly half of all workers have children under age eighteen who live with them at least half time. Seventy percent of all parents feel they do not... View Details
- 23 Jan 2020
- News
Bringing Education Back Home
university name. And we took the leadership concepts we learned here to position ourselves and the professors to have the models to pursue from the students. “Over time, when the parents of the kids started to see the difference on their... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World
parents busy, they are delighted with the rewards and responsibilities of raising a child. The energetic preschooler offers a very different set of challenges for Costan than did the World Bank, where she'd spent a decade working on... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
Way, also seeks that coveted CEO position in order to mix things up in another way: by giving young black men a role model for success in business. "We need more balance in how people look at, admire, and respect black men," he says. A St. Louis, Missouri, native who... View Details