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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 29 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
HBS, A Dream and Trey: How HBS Helped Me Launch My Social Enterprise
class. Yes, you read that correctly. I was a tall, lanky kid that loved basketball above nearly everything else, and after mailing a highlight tape to universities nationwide, I was buried under a tidal wave of recruiting attention from...
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Gerald Chertavian
in New York City, where he volunteered as a mentor to 10-year-old David Heredia. Seeing the divide between Heredia’s potential and his prospects, Chertavian was determined to help expand options for Heredia and kids like him. “I saw that...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
classmates who had once been in the majority were now minority students, getting picked on by their Caucasian classmates. Shockingly, about 40 percent of Native American freshmen dropped out within the first two weeks. Essentially, the reservation system had been a...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
boss. At that point in my life, I didn’t want to report to someone else. I don’t consider myself an entrepreneur, yet I started a bank and as well as a school for kids with learning disabilities, called Lake Michigan Academy. Starting a...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Billion-Dollar Question
to summer camp. My HBS classmate Jeff Hicks could have inched his way to a billion dollars by sticking with his hugely successful advertising firm. Instead, as other HBS alumni have done, he took his wife and three kids on a one-year,...
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- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Making Lives Better
predicted. It's a long-term goal, but daughter Jodie, who is now 16, motivates her mother every day. "I'm helping her, and all the kids and adults like her, to have a better future. I'm fortunate that I went to business school and I can...
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- 19 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating our Student Fathers
member of my section knows my son’s name and they’re so excited when he comes to section events. I’ve always said that being a student at HBS is slightly more difficult with kids than without, but HBS is the best place to be a kid! What...
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- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
Brandless be the final nail in the coffin? Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518044-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 418-011 Kids & Company: Entering the U.S. : In April 2017, Victoria Sopik and Jennifer...
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- 25 Jun 2024
- News
On the Move: Alexis DePree (MBA 2007)
When Nordstrom announced the promotion of Alexis DePree (MBA 2007) to COO in early June, media outlets noted DePree’s expanded, end-to-end role in managing operations and customer experience in an increasingly complex retail environment. DePree joined Nordstrom in...
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- 07 Mar 2019
- News
Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands
more aspirations and to try to accomplish things and to try to move the world in a way that, at the end of the day, I can look back to my kids and say, ‘I'm leaving you in a better world.’” (Published March 2019)
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
twenty-five million kids don't go to school. There are too many people dying due to lack of vaccines, and the world is showing an increasing inequity in terms of the distribution of assets and income. The rich are getting richer, and the...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
classrooms to adventures and expeditions worldwide. The programs are distributed both online and via Newspapers in Education channels. I met with Wilson recently in the historic seaport of Salem, Massachusetts. Over breakfast, he explained, “Excite a View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Christian University, he was not only TCU’s first African American basketball player but also the first in the entire Southwest Conference. In 1975, about the same time a kid named Bill Gates opened a shoestring operation called...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
via correspondence course and enrolled at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. “Antioch was a hotbed of students who did it their way,” says HBS Dean Jay Light, a native Ohioan whose first HBS class was taught by Levitt. “It was a very creative, independent sort of...
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- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
invest in the educational and professional potential of men and women whose young lives were spent as migrant farm workers. Living by the cycle of fruit harvests, a basic education for these kids was often out of reach or incomplete, and...
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- 11 Jan 2016
- News
Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources
about. “In 2003, my family moved to Boston. My children were in middle school and I felt that they weren’t getting the kind of experiential learning I had had as a child. Where could my kids go during the summer, or after school, so...
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