childhood - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2000
News

No Place Like Home

positively affects childhood development, individual self-esteem, and family viability. Housing is generally considered "affordable" when its cost does not exceed 30 percent of the median family income in a given area. In one typically... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

November 2019
Supplement

Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.

By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah Mehta and Matthew Preble

This video supplement pairs with “Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.” (case no. 418011). It contains eight individual clips that range in length from 5 to 12 minutes. Instructors can use the videos, either in whole or in part, as an additional teaching... View Details

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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

01 Sep 2010
News

Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

program at MIT. I feel very fortunate to have benefited from great educational institutions throughout my life. Perhaps the most important thing to share about my childhood is that my father was an extraordinary inspiration to me. In many... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

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

Brian T. Bedol

For Brian Bedol, the founder and CEO of Bedrocket Media Ventures, entrepreneurship was deeply engrained from his childhood in Cleveland. Bedol’s father founded a successful small housewares manufacturing and metal stamping business and... 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

01 Apr 1997
News

Facing the Music

slowdown." Candace Bond Candace Bond (MBA '92) recalls one of her earliest childhood memories: watching a stack of 45s spin on her parents' record player and dancing to the music of artists such as Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Jackson... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

his eyes were still red. Everyone had assumed his eyes were red because he had been crying. But the nurse wondered if Kevin might have Kawasaki disease, a rare childhood illness that can harm the coronary arteries, and whose symptoms... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

24 Mar 2023
News

Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey

Clubs News Clubs News Toronto Alumni Explore Shift in Talent Markets On February 9, the HBS Club of Toronto held an in-person fireside chat and Q&A with Ethan Bernstein, Edward W. Conrad Association Professor of Business Administration, to explore the post-pandemic... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

08 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

wilderness. He's lucky he didn't get killed. “The real story in this book is how desperately the United States needed these people” And it's hard to imagine a more dramatic, tragic childhood than Hamilton's. His mother never married his... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking

01 Mar 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

Judith C. Radasch (MBA 1979) (Archway Publishing) In this story of spiritual healing and the restoration of physical and mental health, Radasch shares the details of her life—the good, the bad, and the ugly. She tells how she healed miraculously from the trauma of... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

21 Jun 2022
News

Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead

housing, and early childhood education. “We had a blast,” says Weinstein. “There was such great energy and camaraderie. It was just nice seeing people in-person. The purpose of the banquet is to reinforce the connection to HBS and to each... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

10 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Coming Out at Business School

received to-date on my coming out. From college roommate to childhood friend to most recent boss, they’ve all made my coming out less scary, much more enjoyable, and quite frankly, surprisingly entertaining. My coming out is very much... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

Hajim (MBA 1964) and Glenn Plaskin Skyhorse On the Road Less Traveled is the story of Edmund Hajim, an American financier and philanthropist who rises from dire childhood circumstances to achieve professional success and personal... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Feb 1997
News

Doing It Your Way

pay phones in Tanzania - and recently won a bid to become Ghana's Second National Operator. A Liberian national who spent much of her childhood in English boarding schools, Maddy holds foreign service and economics degrees from Georgetown... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

serving as a volunteer football coach at Western Maryland College, a student complained to him that there were "no opportunities left in America." A survivor of childhood poverty who became a millionaire by age 35 through nursing-home and... View Details

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

boxes on the way to promotion. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/418031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-042 LeBron James: Building a Hollywood Empire It is June 2016. Superstar basketball player LeBron James and his View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Lisa Cousins

pay for our undergraduate degrees. This is an embarrassing memory, but, during the Ty Beanie Baby craze in the '90s, they went so far as to reward us with a Beanie Baby each time we scored above 90% on an exam. I don't think they ever imagined that this focus during... View Details

Keywords: Services; Entertainment / Media

19 Jun 2023
Blog Post

The Road to Impact

programs ranging from early childhood education to suicide prevention to distance learning. The organization is largely funded on a project basis by groups like the National Science Foundation and the US Agency for International... View Details

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