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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
family time is one of the most valuable and precious things on earth. Time with the kids is perhaps the best thing to come out of what has otherwise been such a trying time. There are blessings even in challenges.” —David Aron Levine (MBA...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible
young kids from difficult environments. Launched in 2001 with 25 classmates, the group has grown to 100 members who are involved in a selected set of projects, giving advice, sharing contacts, and providing financial support. “We took a...
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- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff...
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- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
amounts of time doing different things. And as a 22-year-old kid I could tell you I never left the office and worked all the time. As a 47-year-old man I wouldn't advocate that to anybody. And I have this general sense that the more you...
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- 11 Jul 2013
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Making Lives Better
predicted. It's a long-term goal, but daughter Jodie, who is now 16, motivates her mother every day. "I'm helping her, and all the kids and adults like her, to have a better future. I'm fortunate that I went to business school and I can...
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- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
looks less like a veteran technology entrepreneur than a kid in a candy store. A lifelong techie, Levy learned to read by deciphering The Boys’ First Book of Radio and Electronics, a 1954 classic that gave step-by-step instructions for...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
Levitz The book does a good job making the case for why we should let our kids make their own decisions and chart their own path. —Bryan Mistele (MBA 1995) Working from home has given me the time to go back to books in my library that...
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- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
most. "Don't be afraid to fail," is the advice he doles out most often — be it to kids at the local Boys & Girls Clubs, to the recipients of his fellowships at Columbia and HBS, or to his four sons. A native of Brookline, Massachusetts,...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Christian University, he was not only TCU’s first African American basketball player but also the first in the entire Southwest Conference. In 1975, about the same time a kid named Bill Gates opened a shoestring operation called...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
via correspondence course and enrolled at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. “Antioch was a hotbed of students who did it their way,” says HBS Dean Jay Light, a native Ohioan whose first HBS class was taught by Levitt. “It was a very creative, independent sort of...
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- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
invest in the educational and professional potential of men and women whose young lives were spent as migrant farm workers. Living by the cycle of fruit harvests, a basic education for these kids was often out of reach or incomplete, and...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Afghan citizens who returned to their country after years spent in Pakistani refugee camps. When Khoja was nine, the family moved to London; there, kids on the playground called him a “Paki,” the shorthand slur for all Southeast Asians;...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
Maine. His work at two of Common Good's partner organizations — Stone Soup Foods and East End Kids Katering, both in Portland, Maine — focused on evaluating new business opportunities and developing marketing plans to maximize each...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
Beth Terrana clocked the seventy-hour weeks demanded of someone in her position. “I’d get home from work, eat dinner with my family, put the kids to bed, and work until 1 a.m. I was in a constant state of exhaustion,” she recalls. Then,...
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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a...
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- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
throughout Latin America for GTECH, a Rhode Island–based firm, but when the company expanded into casino gaming and wanted Dyson to manage the portfolio, it was finally too much. He was already spending 80 percent of his time traveling abroad, and his three View Details
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- 17 Nov 2015
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Carbon Neutral
Walt Minnick (MBA 1966), a successful businessman and former Democratic congressman from Idaho. “It’s the most serious problem facing humanity in the 21st century. If we want a future for our kids and grandkids, it’s imperative that our...
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Michael Blanding
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition,...
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- 30 Jul 2024
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Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: John Doerr
strengthened the charter public school laws, provided funding for facilities, and lowered to 55 percent the threshold required to pass a local school bond. The net result is that over ten years, a million kids can graduate from new,...
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