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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
City’s welfare hotels. It prompted me to volunteer in a Children’s Aid Society program inside the largest such hotel, the Prince George Hotel, helping kids with their homework, taking them to the park, and just being a friend. When the... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more homes than he can remember,... View Details
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
professor of strategy at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. In the case of Zuckerberg vs. the Winklevosses, the twins may have had created a simple interface for college kids to connect with one another, but it... View Details
- 16 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Shekeyla Caldwell Sandore: Why 'A Name Like Mine' Matters
unconscious—is going into their decision to put me in an interview if my name is one you might have made fun of or thought of as "ghetto"? I see the book as a starting point, as a conversation starter. I’ve received text messages from former coworkers who read it to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Turning Point: On the Line
Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Day 116 was bizarrely poetic. Or poetically bizarre. And not just because I was an HBS grad participating in his second strike. To that point in last year’s... View Details
- Profile
Benjamin Wells
It's made me think about how we teach kids in middle and high schools, where they get talked to rather than talked with. It makes me wonder if we should reconsider our learning model." Confidence in the unknown The Rwanda IXP, says... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
LA Reid’s Song
shape the culture, whatever it might be, and I can tell if that’s happened—like seeing little kids going trick-or-treating dressed up as Avril Lavigne. I want to work with a John Lennon or a Bob Marley. I think that music is only more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
young kids about their lives and ambitions and ways they could make their dreams happen," he says. "Our presence in these countries can be a catalyst for building social change." See other ways HBS is deepening student and faculty global... View Details
- Portrait Project
Gavriel Goidel
three children, despite our different worldviews. At the end of the day, my pursuit for self-realization and happiness is not about money or titles, but rather about the freedom to choose without being judged. And honestly, my beautiful wife and my gorgeous View Details
- Portrait Project
Cameron Johnson
not-quite-good-enough attempts. Invaluable were the lessons taught by my miscues. What motivated me as a kid was simple—the joy of reaching for a far-fetched, albeit often misunderstood, goal I set out for. In today's Internet-driven... 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 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,... View Details
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- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
saved the lives of hundreds of children since it was first established nearly 30 years ago. “It’s an amazing story,” says Kundu. “A man named Balaram Karan was working in a village one day when he found an abandoned baby on the road. Despite having four View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 29 Jul 2024
- News
Leading the Way
for the program’s success,” says Trujillo. “He was our first Be A Leader kid to go the Harvard Business School, and now we have 26. That inspires me, and I told Michael that before I leave this Earth, I want us to send 100 Arizonans to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
company’s materials are designed to be as user-friendly as possible. A parent might help a child with pattern recognition by having them tap out rhythms with household utensils, or teach them to count by having them play hopscotch with numbers. Rocket currently reaches... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
niche advertising. But these marketers realized the best way to create cachet for a young audience was to make it inaccessible and let the kids discover it on their own. So classic marketing wisdom doesn’t always hold true? That’s right.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
much better job at work and probably always wonder if you aren't missing out on one of the great life experiences. You can decide to have kids and give up your career, and always wonder if you are not maximizing who you could be. You... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
beaten play for the championship. In effect, an adults-only paperwork controversy cost the kids a championship of their own. Fortunately, Swearengin noted, “The team all told me they felt like champions, which, for a coach, is a great... View Details
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
Research that explores how children benefit from having a working mom blew away the field for most popular feature article on Harvard Business School Working Knowledge in 2015. With nearly 84,000 visits, twice the number of the second most popular article, View Details