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Phoebe Peronto
has tried new things to discover fresh interests. Beginning with a summer internship in the Senate office of Dianne Feinstein, she has served stints with Pixar Animation Studios, a start-up in Dubai, and with Google Ventures. “I grew up professionally at Google,”...
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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...
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Financial Services
- 20 Nov 2019
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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...
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- 09 Apr 2001
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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...
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- 01 Nov 2018
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The Power of Civility
It's a very self-centered world these days, and that does worry me about our future as a civilization. “One of the things that my parents taught me when I was a kid was that we need to take responsibility for our own actions, and we can't...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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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...
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- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
never work late or on weekends. I’ve found that if you work efficiently during the day, you can “just leave” at 5:30 or 6. These are pretty simple things, but over the years the effect of being home for dinner and to see the kids added...
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- 28 May 2019
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Broken Link
EducationSuperHighway helped the district install fiber-optic cable. Because of the faster and more reliable service, the district can now provide “one-to-one” computing—meaning each student has a device in the classroom. “Everything is online and in apps. We’re moving...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
another network has expressed interest.” TV limits at home? No firm hours. “My kids work so bloody hard in school that we’re pretty good about letting them decompress the way they need to—what bothers me more is that they watch reality...
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- 18 Feb 2014
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Stick with Plan A
be an entrepreneur. Growing up in the Swedish-built mining town of Yekepa in northern Liberia, she started her first business when she was 12 — an after-school activities company; parents paid her to keep their kids busy. "I didn't know...
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- 15 Sep 2020
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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
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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,...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Giving Live Sports Another Dimension
three hours [when they’re] sitting in their seat.” To that end, new ballparks and arenas have begun to include physical diversions such as pools, kid zones, and beer pavilions. But Mariner, former executive vice president and CFO of Major...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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Emerging Information
on the screen. "The client was like a kid in a candy shop," Mueller recalls. "It was one of those moments when you know you're really on to something." For Mueller, that "something" has become a thriving company that currently has 700...
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- 13 Jun 2013
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Learning Curve
Marshall Tuck with kids Photo courtesy of Marshall Tuck Marshall Tuck's exciting new job had a rough start. Selected in late 2006 to head a turnaround of the Los Angeles Unified School District, Tuck (MBA 2000) saw his position evaporate...
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- 29 Jul 2024
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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...
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- 01 Sep 2024
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Ink: Framing the Full Picture
also make it interesting so that kids want to read it. It’s even harder because I can’t just make it up, and I can’t embellish either. There was an additional layer because my son, who is 20, is the cowriter of this book. We’ve worked...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 27 Oct 2016
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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
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Casey Gerald
“Truth is, there weren’t a lot of kids around me going to an Ivy League school.” Initially “convinced” he would become a lawyer, a summer internship within a law firm “quickly disabused me of the idea.” Investment banking came next,...
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- 13 Nov 2020
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Students craft their post-HBS lives
conversations so special, explains Danziger, is they went beyond professional issues to address life topics that all students grapple with. “I spent an hour talking with one alum about everything from how to instill values in your kids to...
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