childhood - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jul 2017
News

Making Friends with Mother Nature

weekly Tupper Lake Free Press about an idea for a regional nature museum in the heart of his beloved Adirondack Mountains, he picked up the phone. Clifford, who still goes by his childhood nickname “Obie” when he’s in Upstate New York,... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518006-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-005 Magic Bus: From Childhood to Livelihood Founded in 1999 by Matthew Spacie to give poor children an opportunity to play, Magic Bus had evolved to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2007
News

Profiles from the class of 2007

abuse throughout his life and spent fifteen years homeless on the streets of Las Vegas, far from their California home, before he died in 2003. “My father gave us the biggest gift he could have, which was to leave,” says Landles-Dowling. “I escaped a potentially tough... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/419016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 419-017 Christine Lagarde (A): A French Prime Minister Calls This case covers formative events and influences in Christine Lagarde’s childhood and her... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Apr 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Tech

experience has created this amazing sense of comradery for me, and I know once I graduate from HBS I’ll have a life-long, tight-knit network of professionals I can call friends. Anything else you would like to add? Outside of tech, I’m into physical fitness and... View Details

01 Jan 2008
News

James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959

traveling to 140 countries with his wife, Elaine, a specialist in early childhood education, he made it a practice to spend time with people in poor areas before visiting with heads of state or ngos. “We learned a lot that those leaders... View Details

08 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Leading With Curiosity: Mayowa Kuyoro (MBA 2015)

Exploration Kuyoro spent her childhood in Nigeria before continuing schooling in the UK. After completing her degree in Engineering at the University of Warwick, she was eager to continue her education and study the intersection of... View Details

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

food, shelter is perhaps the most basic human need. In modern society, stable, safe housing is more than a matter of comfort and convenience; it positively affects childhood development, individual self-esteem, and family viability.... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

13 Oct 2016
News

Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease

academic and life teachers who opened my eyes to what could be accomplished through science and innovation,” Blum says. “This was a way I could pay that back.” Having spent his childhood in the mountains of North Carolina, Blum is a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

inequalities in the public and the private spheres are affected by childhood exposure to non-traditional gender role models at home. We test the association between being raised by an employed mother and adult men's and women's outcomes... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2013
News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

have learned on my own or in a classroom." Kacyvenski's personal story of overcoming a childhood marred by hunger, homelessness, abuse, and tragedy has earned him a guest spot on The Oprah Winfrey Show and been documented by NFL Films.... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2006
News

One-on-One with Carter Roberts

Roberts Illustration by PJ Loughran Carter Roberts (MBA ’88) traces his enchantment with nature back to his early childhood in Atlanta, where he roamed a backyard forest and discovered a fascinating world of creatures under rotting logs.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Growth of the Social Enterprise

order to accelerate their expansion efforts, Jump Start, an early childhood education program that pairs college students with pre-schoolers struggling in Head Start, began entering into affiliate partnership agreements with colleges and... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

unpopular and very costly war in Iraq. Meanwhile, countries that used to be called "less developed" became emerging markets, and have invested much more in the development of talent than we have. So there are also concerns about the competitiveness of the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2011
News

Downtime

surmount them or succumb to them. Memorable childhood books? The Laura Ingalls Wilder series that begins with Little House in the Big Woods, for their vivid reconstruction of a world gone by and a child’s place in that world. Those books... View Details

Keywords: fiction; Christianity

Profile

Marcela Sapone

spin-out of Dupont. Work dictated several moves and Sapone spent a part of her childhood living in Copenhagen and later Paris. She focused on starting ventures, like a crafts fair or a literary magazine, using a combination of charisma... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

unique food (famed ham, mushroom varietals, cheese-making, and rare herbs), temperate climate, surrounding rivers and mountains, ethnic diversity (bordering Laos, Vietnam, and Myanmar, Dali has been a cultural blotter), and overwhelming hospitality. Zhang returned to... View Details

25 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

other diseases. In addition to disruptions with the flu supply in each of the past four years, the Times notes that there have been shortages in eight of the eleven vaccines for childhood diseases in the U.S. Why were we vulnerable to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Not Waiting for Progress: Diversity and Inclusion in the Film Industry

This is a repost from the Alumni Stories blog. Brickson Diamond (MBA 1999) has never been one to, as he puts it, “just sit back and wait for progress to happen.” His role as cofounder and chair of the Blackhouse Foundation is a case in point. The organization took... View Details

04 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

New Yorker at heart, and a curious and resourceful learner. All of these pieces of her identity have shaped the leader she is today and the impact she makes in her company and community. Plugging into Support to Carve Her Path Born and raised in New York City, Ramirez... View Details

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