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- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
company. (Formerly CEO of Redbox, Kaplan now serves as interim president of Redbox and president and COO of Coinstar, Redbox’s parent company.) “Value, simplicity, and convenience,” is how Kaplan explains Redbox’s success, citing its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
them with the same strong sense of morals that his parents instilled in him. “I think life is about doing the best that you can with what you are born with,” he remarks. “It’s a fascinating journey to discover what that is.” View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Growing up in a single parent household outside of Chicago, Ami Campbell's (MBA 1997) thoughts on money were mainly focused on scarcity. As she writes in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Action Plan: Writing the Next Chapter
dreamed of living and working in New York. Her parents encouraged her to pursue her outside interests, which included studying hotel management and working in luxury marketing, but those experiences brought her back to Caran d’Ache. After... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
HBS Honors Four Alumni
former chairman of London-based Apax Partners, one of the world’s leading venture-capital and private-equity firms, Ronnie Cohen and his parents emigrated, with virtually no possessions, to England from Egypt in 1956. Often said to be the... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- News
One School at a Time
back on a test.” Frock was working as a high-level executive at Corning when she decided to scale back her involvement to spend more time at home with her children, then 7 and 8 years old. After becoming more involved in the local public schools, she and a group of... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
behind and couldn’t shake the feeling that he had to do something for children like her. Together, the couple launched the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation to provide scholarships and educational counseling to military children who lost a View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)
understand. One of the central challenges we face now is that people hold their childhoods dear. Parents who grew up with Sesame Street don’t want it to change, but the world they grew up in is different from the one their kids are... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
near-failure. Other keynotes included David P. Perry's "The Ups and Downs of the Modern Entrepreneur." Perry (MBA '97) is the founder of the B2B marketplace Chemdex (which recently closed its doors) and CEO of its parent company, Ventro... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
continued to engage with HBS students and drive career opportunities for them—as evidenced in the connection made between Eric Westphal (MBA 2021) and Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999). From Brazil to Harvard A native of Brazil, Westphal moved at the age of 11 with his View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
forcing the Cohen family to leave with only one suitcase each. His mother’s British citizenship enabled the Cohens to resettle in London. “My parents were not broken by what happened in Egypt,” he says. “They saw it as a challenge, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
as a child and worked at the Museum of Natural History for a year before applying to HBS. “We have to decide on the most user-friendly method of con-veying exhibit information to, say, a parent with three small kids and no spare hands. We... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
donors must speak French. The Birthday Rules: Critical Conversations to Have with Your Children (Ages 6-16) by Jeff Wald (MBA 2002) with Rachel Marsh (Post Hill Press) Parents are finding the traditional challenges of raising... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
serve.” This outreach includes wellness-check phone calls and handwritten letters aimed at students, parent resource packets, a virtual self-care program for teachers, and a virtual appreciation lunch program each month for staff members.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
deteriorated, and crime increased. "I remember feeling that my parents and neighbors were victims of forces beyond their control," Jones says. Later, while earning a degree at the University of San Diego, Jones, at age 23, became chief of... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)
We moved to Toronto from Mombasa, Kenya, when I was eight and my brother [Asif Satchu, MBA 1999] was six. For my parents to decide to come here and start a new life was, in many ways, THe ultimate risk. The immigrant experience is... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Ronald P. Mitchell
that was just broken this spring). Off the court, he shone as well, graduating cum laude in economics. The key to his success? "Self-confidence," Mitchell smiles. And that, he says, comes from the encouragement he's always received from his family. "My View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
mother, a single parent who has made considerable sacrifices for her daughter. "Everything I've been able to accomplish thus far, I owe to her," Hubert states simply. "When it came to choosing a college, she told me to make the decision... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
interesting activity, Lawani says, has been Helios's acquisition from multinationals of African businesses that, because of changes in strategy or focus by the parent company, have become "non-core" operations and thus essentially... View Details