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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,”... View Details
Keywords: Tech
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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
- 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
- 25 Jun 2024
- News
On the Move: Alexis DePree (MBA 2007)
simple. I wake up, get ready, and head downstairs for breakfast and pre-school activities with my three kids and husband. I always start my day with a Diet Coke. Mornings are calm compared to the after school/work time when we juggle... View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
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... View Details
- 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
- 23 Jan 2020
- News
Bringing Education Back Home
university name. And we took the leadership concepts we learned here to position ourselves and the professors to have the models to pursue from the students. “Over time, when the parents of the kids started to see the difference on their... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 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 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
Matrix Partners.) “I moved to Boston because my four kids were in New England; they moved away almost immediately,” Hellman jokes. “So I moved back to San Francisco and decided I’d better get a real job.” By all accounts, being chairman... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Avant Ski Makes Turns in Ski Media Objectivity
extreme skiers, and we’re not a mommy blog,” said Widman. “We’re rolling out a whole line of content about multigeneration ski trips, how to get the kids involved, and how to do so without going to 10 different websites and making 10... 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
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
have to have a clear mind and have energy inside you. I was taught since I was a kid that I have to drink a little bit of olive oil in the morning when I wake up, and I always do. And that gives me energy, certainly. But the important... View Details
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
Rich Alton, section E class of 2009. So I work out of a home office, and I have five kids and so there's lots of noise around. So I do my best thinking whenever I put on my noise-canceling headphones, and my trick to doing good thinking... View Details
- 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
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
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... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 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