Family and Family Relationships - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2020
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Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)

bank account, and family support system.” Up the structure. Build your own board of directors. “You need a group of people who will offer outside support and call you to... View Details

01 Apr 1998
News

Going For The Summit

"baby-boomer" audience, iVillage launched its first Web site, Parent Soup (www.parentsoup.com), in 1995. The popular site offers online visitors a combination of expert and peer advice on child rearing, as well as resources such as... View Details

Keywords: Caroline Chauncey

01 Dec 2014
News

3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)

package delivery. The American consumer has rising expectations about the speed and quality of package delivery. So what we’re working toward is a 7-day, 364-days-of-the-year schedule. Do you know the one day we’re not going to deliver?... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Aug 2001
News

Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success

suggested that the health-care industry is also ripe for disruption. Technological innovations such as improved testing and diagnostic equipment and more targeted drugs could soon break down the existing... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Frank Batten (MBA '52); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

07 Aug 2015
Blog Post

Takeaways from the Class of 2015

were in attendance at the HBS commencement ceremony this year you would have seen these colorful index cards – filled with reflections both witty and profound – displayed on the big screen as families View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Robert Goodwin

relationships with the community. These investments can be modest. Just providing safe drinking water can lead to greater productivity and more profit, one of many instances where philanthropy makes good... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

01 Dec 2003
What Do You Think?

Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?

a shadow over the entire industry. The alleged problems include managers of fund families who allocate investments among individual funds in which they may have a management or ownership stake. This allows some investors (particularly... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 May 2016
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A Focus on Sustainability

in more than 100 middle-market companies and currently has $11 billion under management. Since officially retiring in 2012, he now oversees a family office that focuses primarily on environmental View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events

moderated a panel discussion on venture capital during the West Coast Women’s Leadership Accelerator, a conference attended by more than 250 alumnae that took place at the St. Regis San Francisco. 5 Jonathan and Jeannie Lavine (both MBA... View Details

Portrait Project

Rafiq Ahmed

family has always embraced religion as a stabilizing force in our lives. My identity as a Shia Ismaili Muslim was instilled in me through regular prayer and attendance at our community Jamatkhana. I did not... View Details

Profile

Malory Mclemore

public schools in the Birmingham area. Later, he started a small real estate business “flipping” houses, and recently became a top real estate agent in Birmingham, AL. His love for business, community, and... View Details

30 May 2018
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HBS Fellowship Program Puts an MBA Within Reach

American women about her time as an MBA student. “Without this fellowship, I wouldn’t be able to be here and to share my story so that others who look like me could see what it’s like to attend HBS,” she explains. “I’m so appreciative of... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

@Soldiers Field

knowledge that takes place in the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center will develop better leaders who will gain greater understanding, insight, and wisdom to lead in the world of the future,” family patriarch Dr.... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Turning Point: Soul Cycle

about listening to my inner voice and choosing to follow it. In high school, my family and I traveled from Chicago to the East Coast for a whirlwind college tour. Stepping onto... View Details

Keywords: transitions; life experience; career change; entrepreneurship

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

run a successful multinational IT services firm where employees are treated like an extended family and strategy emerges from the bottom up? Those are the key leadership questions posed by Professor David... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Ink

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015 Raje breaks C-suite workplaces into four categories: space used to enhance personal energy (think Zen gardens, cloth journals, and pictures of the View Details

03 Jan 2018
News

Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room

understand what it means to want to provide for your family. And some of us have not come from the best means, so we're looking to do something to help our families and our... View Details

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Commencement 2012 Address | About

Life? ” This question seems especially apt today, when Nate Bihlmaier’s death has reminded how us fragile life truly is. I want to welcome Nate’s parents, wife, brother, and their extended family View Details

Portrait Project

Jamie Holden

soldiers, the thoughtful care packages and letters I received from my dear family or, most importantly, the precious telephone conversations with my husband who was stationed a short (but painfully distant)... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean

Simon. But he saw an opportunity in a sleepy family company with a great reputation. He introduced systems that track customer preferences and check an order’s tiniest details, reducing the opportunity for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; career; life experiences; dry cleaning; leadership; music; Personal and Laundry Services; Personal and Laundry Services

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