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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
17, 1991) Its schools are found in some of the world's toughest neighborhoods—in Iraq, India, and the United States—because SABIS and its president, Carl Bistany, believe every child deserves a chance. SABIS is a for-profit View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
elective, The Management of New Enterprises. This in turn spawned other such course offerings throughout the 1960s and ’70s in the MBA and Executive Education programs. Many students indeed were going on to become entrepreneurs as alumni.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
major executive education program for over a thousand senior leaders from a variety of companies, I asked participants what percentage of the people they hired or promoted turned out to be a superb choice. By their own reckoning, about a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Shaking Up the System
proudest achievement. Located in the building that formerly housed Evander Childs High School, once one of the most dangerous educational facilities in the country, BLS last year graduated 95 percent of its... View Details
- 20 May 2020
- News
Keeping Families Connected
call. “We could not live with ourselves if there was a child who couldn’t have a magical, memorable, experience with a grandparent because a parent had just lost their job and couldn’t pay the monthly fee,” explains Tuchman. “We’re a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
possible for organizations and individuals to donate unused computer time for use in AIDS and cancer research, which requires huge amounts of data-processing capacity. What is the difference between the “no child left behind” approach to... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
little bit of help could make a big difference, and everybody just needs a chance.” Wu got his start in international aid work early. After getting his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth, he worked on development projects in Tanzania and with a center combating View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Turning Troubled Schools into High-Achievers
think about my own education in K-12, I know that I am really fortunate to have received an excellent education. So really, when I wake up every day today, I want to make sure that every single child in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
the numbers, that's becoming less and less true." —Stacey Childress STUDENT-CENTRIC SCHOOLS "Our old system worked well enough for an industrial-based economy. In a knowledge-based economy, we need an individualized, personalized approach that can View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
typically have educational options, and are not always exploited. I had never considered this side of child labor. I had immediately thought of the reporting I had seen on the bad (and unfortunately common)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
For Christina Ehrenberg (MBA 2001), HBS is only the latest in a series of remarkable learning experiences — the world itself has been her greatest teacher, imparting to her a wisdom and composure that belie her years. An only child whose... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Research Brief: Ending the Legacy of Poverty
open doors, making professional and personal lives easier to navigate and translating to higher earnings. As a result, 36.5 percent of children born to parents in the top 20 percent of income distribution remain there—twice the probability that a View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
will seem quaint in comparison, say the HBS alumni behind the nonpartisan group, Reform Elections Now (REN), who gave a virtual presentation to the HBS Club of Dallas in early September to educate and engage business leaders on the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
expanding his Coosawattee Foundation, an educational organization he founded in 1986 dedicated to preserving Georgia’s archaeological sites and environmentally sensitive areas that combines Langford’s passions for history and the natural... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Business of Babies
deliver on hope. “Providers of fertility treatments are selling the promise of a child, the dream of a family, but at some point they have to come through,” said Spar. Privacy is a factor as well. “Acquiring a child is an intimately... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
took care of 1,000 children at a cost of $80 a child, which is less than $120 a child spent by comparable organizations. Even that amount of reporting would be very useful, but it is not the norm. By and large the reporting focuses on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
always positioned itself as a fun toy that helps children develop, and it enjoys a healthy relationship with schools and educators throughout the world. About 90 percent of U.S. preschools and kindergartens use LEGO products. Its Learning... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
responsibility. As a diary of successful social activism, the book is engaging. What makes it inspiring is the back story: Massie was afflicted by hemophilia, a rare disorder that as a child left him in constant pain and without the... View Details
- 29 Jul 2024
- News
Leading the Way
Illustration by Gisela Goppel When Michael Trejo (MBA 2013) was a freshman at Arizona State University (ASU) in 2005, he almost lost his full scholarship. “I just really lacked direction,” says Trejo. That’s when he joined ASU’s Hispanic Students Business Association... View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
HBS alumni and a faculty member were among the respondents. Kwame Owusu-Kesse (MBA/MPP 2012), CEO of Harvard Children’s Zone, writing with the organization’s founder, Geoffrey Canada, suggested that, “[i]f we are going to break the cycle of poverty, we must reimagine... View Details