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American Public Media [Marketplace], 12 September 2006

DR. DEBORAH SPAR: "The ability to choose gender is really only the first... View Details

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

and children by not only providing medical care, but also working to rehabilitate people’s homes and provide vocational training for parents. She initially shied away from seeking help from the rich and powerful—people she saw as greedy... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

01 Jan 2013
News

Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960

Central America, the World Wildlife Fund, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, where 7 million visitors tour Sant Ocean Hall annually. The couple, who will soon celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary, work together on the foundation and are... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

lifestyle was important to one’s well-being. Later in life, I was a single father with two children (8 and 4) and working those long hours. One evening, during another senior staff meeting that usually ran until 6:00 or 6:30, I thought,... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

22 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

workers during the pandemic. “You have to trust that they are intelligent enough and well-intentioned enough to get work done no matter what it takes,” she says. This means managers should be careful not to treat workers like children by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

25 Apr 2024
News

Origin Stories

of numerous organizations including One Mind, a nonprofit focused on catalyzing change in how mental health is treated and perceived, and 10 Million Names, a collaborative project dedicated to recovering the names of the estimated 10 million men, women, and View Details

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

candidates. We find that increasing the political representation of Muslims improves health and education outcomes in the district from which the legislator is elected. We find no evidence of religious favoritism: Muslim children do not... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

have a clue as to how Internet stocks are valued and as a result tend to stay away from them. How would you rate your personal computing skills? My children would say laughable, but I can check my e-mail and surf the Net. James A. Stern I... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

A few years ago, Reshmaan Hussam and colleagues decided to find out why many people in the developing world fail to wash their hands with soap, despite lifesaving benefits. Every year more than a million children under the age of five die... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

25 Jan 2016
Blog Post

3 Tips on Coming to HBS with a Partner

stayed in our apartment off campus, which is about halfway between the business and law school. You can definitely still live on campus if you have a partner or children – the only housing not available to you is the dorms. There are... View Details

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

Workers who used to be fine with regular office hours pre-pandemic are still struggling, as the pandemic continues to affect their availability and the predictability of their work hours. Parents with vaccinated kids could still find their View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Jan 2010
News

James Dimon, MBA 1982

Salomon Smith Barney, the Travelers Group, and Citigroup, which he helped build into the world’s largest financial services company through tight management and astute mergers. Both Dimon’s father and grandfather worked as stockbrokers, but he never felt forced to... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Remix

game board, whole sections of which were grayed out and unplayable, she says. Her professional network, skills, and expertise were all intertwined with an industry that felt toxic. From 2006 to 2008, by then “hiding out” as a stay-at-home mom of her two View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

apps to improve their and their children’s health outcomes. Ovia seeks to improve poor maternal health outcomes, particularly among women and children of color, adopting as its existential intent the provision of “equal care, longitudinal... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

Post-HBS Industry: Manufacturing / Technology What is it like to be pregnant / a new mom at HBS? Because I had both of my children while getting my MBA, I was pregnant for 75% of my time at HBS. Being pregnant RC (first) year was more... View Details

06 Nov 2008
Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

raising a family in a land that delivers Franklin Roosevelt's (and Norman Rockwell's) four freedoms. Still others dream of their children accessing the highest possible level of education, living healthy lives, being good citizens in... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

24 May 2017
News

John J. Brennan, MBA 1980

from which his and Cathy’s three children graduated. There is, however, a second religion in the family: sports. Brennan, a marathon runner, coached his kids’ teams to the point that some neighborhood parents thought he worked for the... View Details