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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
wake up to find oneself deeply enmeshed in a large company, a parent or a dog owner, or the proprietor of a stately home in a suspiciously green and leafy neighborhood. But we have followed our own paths to this latest milestone, and odds... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
students who become tomorrow's employees. Rohit Jain (GMP 5, 2008) @followrohit: Parents need to be involved in their child's education and school. Starts at home and have a working relationship with the teachers ... grow the school... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
wants 15 percent of the equity and would take out a loan from your parent company to buy his shares, the loan to be repaid with dividends from those shares. Would you make him a partner? On a cold winter day in Boston, your car battery is... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
reaching a high of $243 amidst much media fanfare. But like many early dot-com success stories, Perry, who has been called a founding father of the business-to-business online marketplace, has experienced the effects of gravity lately. Chemdex is now defunct, but Perry... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
and followers see it. (3) Make and post videos of your cards in action on YouTube. Be sure to get onto Youtube Kids and pay to get on the homepage. My kids are addicted to watching videos of people opening presents. If you show how your cards are fun, kids all over... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
20th century, who your parents were, whom you knew, and the community you belonged to were key factors. For business leaders, being part of the right society might also mean being either Episcopalian or Presbyterian. Regardless of the... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
cheerleading team free of charge. “Not unlike a startup,” Swearengin says, “a new nonprofit uses a significant amount of duct tape to hold things together,” including, in the early days, stacking parents and children in an end zone to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
arena, where he was president and CEO of GE Commercial Insurance, and into something with strong growth prospects. Four months later, Parker’s wish came true: He became president and CEO of GE’s new Homeland Protection unit. In July 2005 he took charge of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
me solve a problem within a day, or an hour, that might otherwise take a month. There are studies that look for consistent traits in entrepreneurs: Are they a firstborn child? Were their parents entrepreneurs? Did they move a lot when... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
control over my destiny became very important to me," he notes. Eve Benton says that her parents instilled in her the desire to be self-reliant and to know how to manage money. "I was an only child. My father was a lawyer, and my mother... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
Award honoree, Clara Wu Tsai, is a businesswoman, investor, and philanthropist. She is governor and an owner of the WNBA’s New York Liberty and an owner of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets. As vice chair of BSE Global, the teams’ parent company,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
reforming the judiciary, and cracking the mysteries of forest and climate interaction. And then there are my Liberian friends outside of work. Many of them are young people who, while earning $100 or $200 a month, take care of their children (usually as single... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
stroke; a solo parent to two sons, 11 and 14 years old, she takes a very centered, practical approach to managing her time. Depelsha Thomas McGruder: I would say my top three tips for living a balanced life. Well, one thing I said very... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
just floored. We thought, oh, my goodness, he's gonna make it. And his son Ashtyn now is doing really well because Drew had taken parenting classes. He really seems to be pulling his act together. It's going to still be challenging. It's... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
filled with news from enlisted men and officers serving in theaters around the world: letters sent in by parents from sons at sea; first-person and news accounts of harrowing escapes, rescues, and bravery; and reports about sailors... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
but I would say that early intervention about the proper role of technology is important. And I think kids are super receptive to it, because what I have seen is that they watch their parents and they take cues and they're like, "You know... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
creating a personal-finance software. Intuit was established in 1983 but a string of some twenty venture-capital firms didn't believe it had much of a future. Cook, who describes himself as "risk averse," ended up draining his savings, hitting up his View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
says Bradley. Freeing Gillis and Foley had taken six weeks; when Foley’s parents asked Bradley to help again, he agreed. “But Syria is not Libya. Syria is heartbreak. Syria is horrific,” he says, alluding to Foley’s execution and that of... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
board examinations. Out of 30 students, 3 had failed. The memory of one of them, Akash, still haunts me today. The failure that day wasn’t just Akash’s. For 10 years, we had promised his poor parents that if they sent Akash to school, he... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios