childhood - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Jan 2015
News

Good Investments

Seattle-based Elevar Equity. Her childhood summers in the Philippines, with its extreme poverty and extreme wealth, inspired an interest in development; a career in private equity and investment banking had taught her how to invest. On... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; impact investing; ideas; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

unique food (famed ham, mushroom varietals, cheese-making, and rare herbs), temperate climate, surrounding rivers and mountains, ethnic diversity (bordering Laos, Vietnam, and Myanmar, Dali has been a cultural blotter), and overwhelming hospitality. Zhang returned to... View Details

12 Jan 2018
Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

afraid of what's to come and pleading with God to let him off the hook because he says, "I have no courage, I am weak, and I want to get out of here. I just can't do this." Kenny: You mention his father, what was his childhood... View Details

28 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 28

Learning Foundation's efforts to promote early childhood education for low-income children, this case series explores the nature of their engagement and source of their sustained commitment. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

different actors (government, for-profit companies and non-profits) involved and then discusses three major health problems—heart disease, HIV/AIDS, and childhood illnesses—to show the different levels of private sector involvement in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

have suddenly become an alternative investment vehicle pursued by high-end investors and hedge funds. Will this phenomenon last? Time to Sell Those Sports Cards follows a personal trip to market as author John Schwarz turns a childhood... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

29 Mar 2023
News

Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

to provide early childhood education, post-trauma psychosocial support for children, parents, and women, and preschool learning materials and hygiene kits for families in container villages and other locations in the region via mobile... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

program at MIT. I feel very fortunate to have benefited from great educational institutions throughout my life. Perhaps the most important thing to share about my childhood is that my father was an extraordinary inspiration to me. In many... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

region by helping local residents cultivate their own food; and made Pine Mountain a guaranteed buyer of local produce. In addition, he enlisted Sky (who also earned a doctorate from HGSE) to relaunch the school’s early childhood... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

26 May 2022
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Bidding Up

house in York for us to live in. So this started a very happy childhood in York. JH: Growing up, Bob and his brother had an outdoorsy childhood, riding their bikes and playing in the fields and creeks near town. But Wilson was also pretty... View Details

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Art Nature Business

have also explored natural disasters in other series, such as in Circleville , from their series, Accidentally Kansas . Nix explains: 'My childhood was spent in a rural part of the United States that is known more for its natural... View Details

01 Apr 1997
News

Facing the Music

slowdown." Candace Bond Candace Bond (MBA '92) recalls one of her earliest childhood memories: watching a stack of 45s spin on her parents' record player and dancing to the music of artists such as Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Jackson... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

his eyes were still red. Everyone had assumed his eyes were red because he had been crying. But the nurse wondered if Kevin might have Kawasaki disease, a rare childhood illness that can harm the coronary arteries, and whose symptoms... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

15 Jun 2021
News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

Hajim (MBA 1964) and Glenn Plaskin Skyhorse On the Road Less Traveled is the story of Edmund Hajim, an American financier and philanthropist who rises from dire childhood circumstances to achieve professional success and personal... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way

pay phones in Tanzania - and recently won a bid to become Ghana's Second National Operator. A Liberian national who spent much of her childhood in English boarding schools, Maddy holds foreign service and economics degrees from Georgetown... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

serving as a volunteer football coach at Western Maryland College, a student complained to him that there were "no opportunities left in America." A survivor of childhood poverty who became a millionaire by age 35 through nursing-home and... View Details

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

and Hungary, and he made for the border. Q: So this was not an easy childhood. A: It was an extremely difficult childhood although not an unhappy one. It was a close-knit family group. His father and mother loved one another and they... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

boxes on the way to promotion. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/418031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-042 LeBron James: Building a Hollywood Empire It is June 2016. Superstar basketball player LeBron James and his View Details