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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Turning Point: Crossover
with the foster kids there reinforced for me the power of coaching as a platform for teaching positive values and life skills, all while being involved in a game I love. A few years later, I began volunteer coaching the Illinois Warriors... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe
of those insidious problems that if you don't fix today, nothing bad is going to happen tomorrow. But when we don't do anything, it becomes a huge problem, and it's not an easy fix. Hope for your kids I want them to be intellectually... View Details
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
support from the alumni network. "All we usually read about is some whiz kid in California whose new app has made him millions," notes Fred Braun (MBA 1959), president of Workman Fund in Leavenworth, Kansas. "Perhaps the report the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
kids would often eat without me during the work week. Now we have a nightly ritual. My kids take turns setting the table, which they fight over every single day. And my husband and I are doing a lot of... View Details
- 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) View Details
- 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... View Details
- 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 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
of 1998 we won the “Truth” anti-tobacco account in the state of Florida. That put us on the radar. It also just happened to be targeted at kids between the ages of 10 and 14, which really anchored this agency in youth marketing.... View Details
- Portrait Project
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
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
gather for their weekly Wednesday sessions. The apprentice program pairs nine high school students with the nine fellows—an exercise in “possibility thinking,” as Student Program Manager Jay Kemp describes it. The kids see firsthand what... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
and the corporate sector in is not easy today because there’s far more sexy stuff to work on out there. I think we have to just persist because it is such a critical area for the country, for just healthy living, clean living, and ensuring that our View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Feedback
1956) Constraining Carbon Re: Walt Minnick (MBA 1966), and Bill Eacho (MBA 1979) Great article! With the future of our kids and grandkids at stake, as Walt Minnick says (and I agree), it’s quite surprising that this issue isn’t getting... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
the next 15 years, the goal in our schools is to really break through to a situation where we can truly prepare kids for high-level college education and, eventually, livelihoods," says Leschly. "Because then you can break the cycle of... View Details
- Profile
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... View Details
- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding professional purpose: Building an impactful career that reflects your values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
Like many career journeys, my path ebbed and flowed. When my kids were young, I decided to step away from full-time roles and focus on consulting so I could be home more. While I wasn’t sure how or when I’d step back into full-time work,... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 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... View Details
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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,... View Details
- 15 May 2015
- Blog Post
How to Get a Global Perspective at HBS
kids with delicious snacks just like our mothers, and Turkish businesses rely on the same strategic principles that my classmates and I are learning at HBS. 3. International cases expose you to global business Elizabeth: I love the fact... View Details