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- 29 Sep 2020
- News
A Righteous Path
back to an unbelievably violent situation without the minimum of a lawyer by their side,” Leimsider says. “We are going to have to rebuild an immigration system that sees children as children and treats them with all the care and support that any of us would want our...
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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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Payal Agrawal Divakaran
Business School (HBS). Prior to that, she worked at Eventbrite, Spectrum Equity, and J.P. Morgan. Payal received her MBA, with Distinction, from HBS and her BS in Electrical Engineering and minor in Management from MIT. She is a Boston native and Boston sports fan. She...
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Venture Capital;#43;#Healthcare
- Portrait Project
Arielle Loeb
settled, starting an organization that enables disadvantaged high-school kids to live abroad, or opening a bakery to which people delight in coming. I want to fall in love with the guy who makes my socks go up and down and start a family...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Toy Story
2006, Schmults said that “any time you’re in a tough retail environment and your traffic is up 50 percent, you know you’re doing something right.” He added, “This is a happy place to work. How could it not be? You see kids racing around...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Adventure in Reading
Abominable Snowman, which features the voices of actors William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman. Norton believes the DVDs will actually encourage kids to read, just as children read Harry Potter books after seeing one of the movies. Even...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A Day’s Pay
Times (June 3, 2010). “It’s kind of hard to take the farmworker out of the kid and the legislator when you come from farmworker stock and you see what your parents and grandparents have gone through.” As for the future, Florez said public...
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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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- 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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Julia Hanna
- 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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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
In emerging economies, business opportunities provide lessons in leadership
students participate in HBS's mission of making a difference in the world. "We saw it when we talked to young kids about their lives, ambitions, and ways they could make their dreams happen," Leach says. "Our presence in these countries...
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- 22 Oct 2014
- News
Preparing middle school students for the opportunities that lie ahead
are pursuing STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) degrees. We really need about 70 percent of our students to be graduating with proficiency in a STEM area, and so it is very, very important that we prepare kids at this age...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
in order to maintain equity in our society, so most of my volunteer activities have been in the area of education. Hope for your kids What more can you want for your children than that they find people to love and work that they are...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Changing Lives One Computer at a Time
close the digital divide that exists in low-income communities where many families don't have a computer at home. "It's such a compelling idea," says Edward Olebe (MBA '99), who has coordinated the project for the HBSAAA in New York. "Not only do these View Details
- Portrait Project
Ryan Kennedy
McDonald's – seeing firsthand the building blocks of opportunity. Hard work, sacrifice, and support for one another. I retired my McDonald's uniform many years ago. I won’t retire the learning: opportunity is a precious gift, but one best shared. I will dedicate my...
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- Portrait Project
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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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
Another area that we’re interested in is how parents should think about these things with their kids. How should we think about teaching our kids about time and money so that they make decisions that science says are good for them? What...
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April White
- Portrait Project
Mike Anders
determined to be an example for that gay kid in Maryland who doesn’t have a role model. It’s okay to like sports. Geek out on innovative technology (I do). It’s okay to be you. It’s great to be you.
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