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- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
thousands of children in his native country. He went on fact-finding missions, acquiring intel from Vanessa Kirsch, CEO of New Profit, a Boston-based venture philanthropy fund supported by the Monitor Group and HBS professor Michael... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Yla Eason (MBA 1977)
Back in 1985, my son Menelik, who was three years old, told me he couldn’t be a superhero because he wasn’t white. That was a shock. When children don’t see themselves represented, research shows it has a negative effect on self-esteem,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Fellowships Have Impact
with Children Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship Program for Not-for-Profit Management Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York Financial Aid Fund George and Edith Weed Willman Fund “It would have been difficult for me to attend HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Record-Breaking Gift for Fellowships
father had to take on loans, and it was his dream to have his own children attend college without the burden of debt or having to work during school,” said Jeannie, noting that her father became an investment banker partly in order to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Air Time
completing my MBA at HBS. I had no nanny, no partner, nothing; only the wonderful team at Soldiers Field Park Children Center where I would drop off my daughter and then proceed to my classes. What did I do during evening events/classes... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Teaching kids lessons in making choices and tradeoffs
Nan Morrison (MBA 1987) is CEO of the Council for Economic Education, based in New York City. In this video, conducted prior to the W50 celebration of women in the full-time MBA Program at HBS in 2013, she explains how her organization teaches school View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
way learning should happen. You’re soon going to open a brick-and-mortar school? I totally believe in brick-and-mortar schools, and I want my children to attend one, but with a very different environment and setup. Unfortunately,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
services jargon is really scary for newer investors to overcome. In the United States, we don’t teach children how to manage their finances in school. So even when people graduate from college or graduate school, many don’t have the tools... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
song with the Vietnam War heavy on his mind, and spent much of his life as a social justice advocate who fought for prison reform, Native American rights, and for opportunities for children born into disadvantage, among other issues. No... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Africa and as a Bain consultant. She is still actively involved with a Johannesburg home for abused children as a member of its management committee. At HBS, as copresident of the Africa Business Club, Mahlare has become interested in how... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
and I want my children to attend one, but with a very different environment and setup. Unfortunately, traditional schooling can be a dehumanizing experience. Students are sometimes belittled and frustrated, they’re not allowed to talk,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
highlight of the conference was the announcement of a partnership between the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA), the AASU, and the Boys & Girls Club of America to launch "Connecting Through Caring," an initiative led by Ann Fudge that focuses on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’
provided assistance to more than 450 students over the years and continue to support students today.) After establishing and growing CPS Technologies into a thriving business, at the age of 40 with five children at home, Christensen... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Working to improve California's public education system
time working on repairing California’s broken public education system. That’s where I’ve finally found my passion,” Welch says. “I’ve always been interested in education at some level—as a volunteer and then as a parent. It was when I put my View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
Children’s HealthWatch achievements are you most proud of, and why? “I am most proud of the ways in which we have contributed to improved policies that have made life better for millions of American children and families. Many parties... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
one-year stint ended, Tierney joined the corporate finance division of White, Weld & Co. in New York and settled with his wife and three children in Connecticut. At White Weld, he developed a department that focused on transportation... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
More Than a Business
of four young children, Graves hopes some of them will also eventually join the company. "Black Enterprise makes a positive contribution to the African-American community," he says proudly. "My father taught us that this magazine is more than just a business, and I'd... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
being treated properly. Not being able to properly transport and treat waste has a wide scale impact. Forty-eight percent of all children under the age of five are undernourished because of bad sanitation. What’s more, India spends 15... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
Therese. Morrell: Therese Perzyk was 88, the youngest of 10 children in the Perzyk family of Detroit, and the last living sibling. Quickly, a plan began to form to have the Perzyk family visit Zavattrello and receive the bracelet. And so,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War
trillion dollars in spending could have begun significant repair of the Social Security system, or hired 15 million public school teachers, or built 8 million housing units, or underwritten 120 million children in Head Start, or offered... View Details