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- 10 Mar 2021
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Next Normal
family time is one of the most valuable and precious things on earth. Time with the kids is perhaps the best thing to come out of what has otherwise been such a trying time. There are blessings even in challenges.” —David Aron Levine (MBA...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible
young kids from difficult environments. Launched in 2001 with 25 classmates, the group has grown to 100 members who are involved in a selected set of projects, giving advice, sharing contacts, and providing financial support. “We took a...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
traded off careers with my husband, who is a neurosurgeon. After I was at P&G for two years, he got a post in San Francisco, so I took a job at Bain. When Disney offered me a job, the kids and I moved to LA, and he commuted. Then he got...
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- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
I was just a person with a baby walking in. Search is a great thing to do while you’re having kids because your schedule is your own. RY: Well, maybe this is a good moment to talk a little bit about the business that you ended up buying,...
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- 22 Nov 2017
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How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
amounts of time doing different things. And as a 22-year-old kid I could tell you I never left the office and worked all the time. As a 47-year-old man I wouldn't advocate that to anybody. And I have this general sense that the more you...
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- 01 Sep 2024
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Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects
horror has taken an enormous toll. My son has only sixteen kids in his pre-K class. Two of them are now fatherless. In one street, just a few blocks away, there are four missing people." Also in New York, Nan J. Morrison (MBA '87)...
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- 20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired
understand, first of all, don't get confused by purpose statements. Theranos had one. Purdue Pharmaceutical had one. Facebook pulled one out in 2016 when they were in trouble. And you read those statements and you’re like, you gotta be View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
kids on vacation with tobacco company money, you know? And so yeah, I do feel, I do feel good about that. DM: So Richard, we've been speaking a lot about what business leaders, what firm leaders can do. They see this big movement ahead of...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Afghan citizens who returned to their country after years spent in Pakistani refugee camps. When Khoja was nine, the family moved to London; there, kids on the playground called him a “Paki,” the shorthand slur for all Southeast Asians;...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
Maine. His work at two of Common Good's partner organizations — Stone Soup Foods and East End Kids Katering, both in Portland, Maine — focused on evaluating new business opportunities and developing marketing plans to maximize each...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face
Beth Terrana clocked the seventy-hour weeks demanded of someone in her position. “I’d get home from work, eat dinner with my family, put the kids to bed, and work until 1 a.m. I was in a constant state of exhaustion,” she recalls. Then,...
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- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
consumers shop around, gets him visibly agitated. "Practically speaking, we can't even move an MRI from one guy to the next, and both have electronic medical records—are you kidding me?" (His reputation precedes him: "I've been very, very...
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- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
lawn without my son or daughter hanging on to the handle, feeling like they're helping me push it, but they're hanging on. Do you know what I mean? Or-- I don't think I've ever been hammered a nail all the way through without having one of my View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
now if K-12 education performance doesn’t substantially improve?” The consequences of each year sending tens of thousands of unprepared kids into a harshly competitive world are already clear. They include rising social safety net...
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- 13 Dec 2017
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Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
talk to that person. Because you can't say to somebody, well, wait a minute, though—don't you think he's kind of racist? I mean, you you have to say what's going on? How do you think there's a way to do this kind of research? So we got this View Details
- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
however, Bob suffered an injury that changed him from an athletic, outgoing personality to more of an introvert. BW: A key thing in my whole life was that I had a severe concussion when I was 14. We had four or five kids on each side of a...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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We Rise
business: Venture Kits, an educational game that taught kids how to be entrepreneurs. A would-be bakery owner, for instance, could work through the necessary steps of calculating costs and doing market research on the way to selling...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero
a player at the beginning of his career, is another surprising success story. Here’s someone who looks like the kid from next door who mows your lawn, and he played like a veteran in a pivotal position under the toughest pressure in...
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