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- 22 Jul 2015
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Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
Women Returners, which helps professional women in the United Kingdom go back to work after extended career breaks. “When my mom became very seriously ill, I had to devote my time to caring for her. The thing that was easiest to drop was the career. I had young View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
developments. The Case Method Miracle by Anne Jones (MBA 1997) Crimson Square Press “Socrates created it. Harvard Business School perfected it. We parent with it; anyone, anywhere, anytime. Kids get grit and wise judgment.” Parent Anne...
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- 16 Oct 2013
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Progress Through Preservation
role with the Trust, a national nonprofit that works to conserve land for use as parks and gardens, from the inner city to the wilderness, is to ensure that nature sticks around for quite some time—for his kids and their kids. "Children,"...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Ink: Talking Shop
part of a terrific management strategy book. The lesson is to never prejudge a book! —Ambi Parameswaran (AMP 186, 2014) The Paper Palace, by Miranda Cowley Heller, is an immersive, literary, emotional, and utterly captivating story about a middle-aged woman with three...
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- 12 Sep 2019
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Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
Rich Alton, section E class of 2009. So I work out of a home office, and I have five kids and so there's lots of noise around. So I do my best thinking whenever I put on my noise-canceling headphones, and my trick to doing good thinking...
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- 24 May 2023
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Balancing Acts
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: What does "work-life balance" mean in today's post-pandemic world? Associate editor Julia Hanna asks this year's five recipients of HBS's Alumni Achievement Award to describe how they think...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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The Levitt Brand
backseat of his father’s 1969 red Camaro convertible while Levitt zigzagged the car through the streets of Belmont. “That was part of who he was and his hardscrabble life growing up,” notes Levitt. “The idea of kids wearing helmets to...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
EducationSuperHighway helped the district install fiber-optic cable. Because of the faster and more reliable service, the district can now provide “one-to-one” computing—meaning each student has a device in the classroom. “Everything is online and in apps. We’re moving...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
another network has expressed interest.” TV limits at home? No firm hours. “My kids work so bloody hard in school that we’re pretty good about letting them decompress the way they need to—what bothers me more is that they watch reality...
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- 18 Feb 2014
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Stick with Plan A
be an entrepreneur. Growing up in the Swedish-built mining town of Yekepa in northern Liberia, she started her first business when she was 12 — an after-school activities company; parents paid her to keep their kids busy. "I didn't know...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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School of Hard Knocks
classmates who had once been in the majority were now minority students, getting picked on by their Caucasian classmates. Shockingly, about 40 percent of Native American freshmen dropped out within the first two weeks. Essentially, the reservation system had been a...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
boss. At that point in my life, I didn’t want to report to someone else. I don’t consider myself an entrepreneur, yet I started a bank and as well as a school for kids with learning disabilities, called Lake Michigan Academy. Starting a...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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The Billion-Dollar Question
to summer camp. My HBS classmate Jeff Hicks could have inched his way to a billion dollars by sticking with his hugely successful advertising firm. Instead, as other HBS alumni have done, he took his wife and three kids on a one-year,...
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- 29 Aug 2018
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The Value of Valleys
not I was cut out to be in business. So when we pulled up in the summer and realized that we had to do another reduction in force I went to our Chief Operating Officer and asked if I could take a package. My kids at the time were one and...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Action Plan: Fired Up
pegged Traeger as a lifestyle company: “When people say your grills changed their lives, show you their Traeger tattoos, and name their kids after your company, you’d better listen,” says Andrus, who has created a corporate culture around...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Turning Point: One Step at a Time
Kids and adults alike had told me I just “wasn’t athletic,” and that was OK—I was smart and talented in other ways. So when the time came for that mandatory mile run I had to get creative. We didn’t have a gym at my small parochial...
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Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- 04 Jun 2008
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Whistle While You Work
sports, themselves subsets of the gargantuan leisure-and-entertainment industry.) We’ve increasingly decided that our kids will absorb more at school if learning is presented as entertainment. As a corollary, for workers in the workplace...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Ticktock
could wake up to their favorite songs rather than beeps (Tocky made it to market). Ofek remains in touch with Nanda, reporting that she is now mulling the idea of a children’s alarm clock that will not only wake kids in the morning but...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Happy Monday
Illustration by Fabio Consoli Illustration by Fabio Consoli The co-CEOs noticed it right away: Early in the pandemic, staffers at the online children’s clothing company Primary.com were struggling when they logged back into Zoom on Mondays. People were not recharging...
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