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Brittany Williams
Every summer from 7th grade through her senior year in high school, Brittany Williams went to science camp. “I was the kid who went to the NASA space camp—for fun!” Brittany enrolled at the University of Virginia to study aerospace... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
From the Ground Up
schools. We started talking about the kids that actually weren't coming to school. It was something I was totally unaware of. “We started investigating and talking about why that was. Everyone was required to have a school uniform, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Richard Edelman (MBA 1978)
about my kids succeeding me. But the second piece is, oh my God, this business is different than it was even five years ago. “Public relations” is not a complete description of our work anymore. Everything is being driven by brand... View Details
- 09 Jan 2017
- News
Role Model, Coach, Life Guide, and Cheerleader
was the worst kid on the team because he’d never played baseball. He didn’t have a father to throw a baseball with. So, after practice he was crying, because he was aware that he was the worst person on the team. They stuck him into... View Details
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Malcolm Little
As the oldest of six kids who grew up together in Richmond, Virginia, Malcolm Little found the University of Virginia to be "a strong state school – and a good one for our family economically." UVA proved even stronger when,... View Details
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
what shoppers do. This observational work is the bread and butter of Paco Underhill, a consultant whose market research firm, Envirosell (New York City), has been studying retail shopper behavior for 20 years. Teach a kid to hammer, and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sheharyar Malik
meager resources could buy. She never married again, never even went on a date, as that would be a distraction from her sole purpose in life – to make her sons the best human beings they could possibly be. That single-minded focus, unconditional love, and towering... View Details
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Matt Simpson
rejected by it every day. A blue-collar kid from Detroit who wanted to work with cars didn’t fit the crowd. I was an outsider and made to feel it every day. I felt numb, losing any joy and pride I used to have. Instead of succeeding, each... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- News
The Right Stuff
to go through.” Overcoming adversity with character and hard work — that’s the “stuff” the Brighton kids had. And with that kind of stuff, in an ideal world, we’d see some of them again — as HBS students. View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
approach, in essence, was true to the spirit of Lego’s brand. According to Moynihan, there’s a reason for all of those figures that Lin asked (and was granted permission) to play with in his movie, from Wonder Woman to C-3PO: “Given the way the media and entertainment... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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Jeff Norton
company, along with a fellow HBS graduate, to create a new kind of film experience for children: an interactive movie that allows kids to control the story. I worked obsessively on the project, sometimes to my own detriment, but in this... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
get to see it firsthand. Kim thinks of Jervon Lemon, a scholarship administrator on his team. After her father, Sergeant Jerome Lemon, was killed in Iraq in 2004, Children of Fallen Patriots stepped in to help fund her college education. Today, she speaks to the View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Can the United States Avoid a Fractured Future?
important thing. All right. Make sure that U.S. kids are globally competitive and you don’t have to import the brains to launch businesses. Second, when people start demonizing half of the country as godless heathens or conservative nuts,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Millennials, Gen X, and Boomers). In addition, the authors interview other successful Harvard Business School alumnae who are creating or leaving legacies. What an MBA Taught Me But My Kids Made Me Learn By Bea Wray (MBA 1999) Post Hill... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
yet our top line, our readership, and their book consumption have stayed stable over the last 20 years. That stability may even tip toward growth as we develop the next generation of readers. There are always worries that kids are... View Details
- 25 Aug 2021
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
Chicago high-rise in the fall of 2019, giving even more of the city’s students the chance to experience a tailored high school public education. For Zaikos, the mission is personal, having spent most of her life in Chicago and raised her own View Details
- 12 Jul 2018
- News
In the Market for Environmental Change
provide maple syrup to local school breakfast programs. Lots of kids in rural places, and certainly in rural Vermont, are coming to school without having had an adequate start to the day. It's been a wonderful gift to be able to produce... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Reunion Highlights: A Case in Point
reunion kids through their paces at a special class for teenagers. After the video, Ton asked, “What do you think makes this company so consistently successful?” Replied one student, “They’re very open-minded. They’re OK with... View Details
- 26 Jul 2011
- News
An Entrepreneur of the Arts
pointe shoes from Russia and sells them nationwide. In 2006, she opened the Russian Pointe Dance Boutique, the company’s flagship store located on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. Attending OPM, Efimova was inspired by a strategy class to launch a venture that would help... View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
mission-based organization, and the status of your program and the talent of your staff and students is your ROI, you go after the best of the best. “These are kids who are extraordinarily talented, who have always been the best in their... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon