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- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
HBS invented management education. This is where great ideas emanate.” Ray and his wife, Kathryn, who holds an MBA from Northwestern, have four adult children with very different interests. It was important to the couple to pass their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
less a figure than Gerson Cohen, the head of The Jewish Theological Seminary, agreed to be my tutor. For six years we met once a week; that, too, was an extraordinary education. Then, in 1988, I read Rachel and Her Children by Jonathan... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Educating the next generation of filmmakers
Film producer Dan Lin (MBA 1999) likes to create hero stories that inspire and entertain children and their families. The producer of The Lego Movie is now teaching Chinese filmmakers how to tell their own stories. (Published November... View Details
- Portrait Project
Alex Pak
carried her across the Killing Fields of Cambodia and left behind her siblings, her parents, and her other children who were unable to escape. When my mother was a young woman, she carried me in her belly and my sister in her arms as she... View Details
- Portrait Project
Nathalie duPreez
otherwise. I am fortunate that I have had the encouragement and opportunities to live by his advice. Yet, just five miles away from where I grew up, children do not have fathers to make them "wings," nor role models to inspire... View Details
- Portrait Project
Marijana Kolak
MBAs, where I ended up loving every minute of the experience. I want to make sure my children grow up to be beautiful human beings. As a business leader and public servant, I want to help rebuild Yugoslavia so my View Details
- 29 Sep 2020
- News
A Righteous Path
back to an unbelievably violent situation without the minimum of a lawyer by their side,” Leimsider says. “We are going to have to rebuild an immigration system that sees children as children and treats them... View Details
- Profile
John Schupbach
India. Two thirds of the children there would never go to a single day of school; they were destined to back-breaking, low-pay work and a short life expectancy." During the day, John assisted in the medical clinic. In the evenings,... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating a path out of poverty through entrepreneurship
Annie Bertrand (MBA 2007) tallks about helping create the India School Fund to integrate entrepreneurship skills with other educational goals to give poor rural Indian children a path out of poverty. (Published April 2014) View Details
- Portrait Project
Ann Chao
orphan who had almost become my little sister. Her name was Chun Yu. I met Chun Yu at a foster home for blind children in China. She had been abandoned as an infant and neglected for years at a state institution before moving to the... View Details
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Book Smart
these children to have the same opportunity. Risher had been an executive at Amazon and Microsoft, so he certainly knew plenty about tech and business. He also had connections, such as Steve Kessel, longtime head of Kindle, who heard the... View Details
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
Support System
Target, the company has channeled 15 percent of the company’s profits back to the families of the shea-nut pickers with the intent that it be used for the education of their children, or—for women without children or with View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
and children are sold via fertility clinics, sperm banks, women selling their eggs, surrogates, and adoption services. We don't couch these transactions in terms of profit-making businesses. Orphans aren't sold—they are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
Spar In her new book, The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception, HBS professor Debora Spar takes an unflinching look at a taboo topic: the myriad kinds of interpersonal arrangements and financial transactions that increasingly... View Details
- 13 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Building a Village: Learning and Living at HBS
Josie McNally is a co-president of the Crimson Parents club. The Crimson Parents club helps families make the transition to HBS by addressing the unique needs of the student parent, their partner, and their children through... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Together Again
building green businesses to winning in emerging markets to rethinking business education. For many, the reunion was a family affair, with children and grandchildren participating in a variety of activities tailored to their interests. To... View Details
Keywords: reunion
- Portrait Project
Yaw Agyenim-Boateng
vulnerable amongst us. I plan to raise money over the next few years, build high-quality schools, design world-class curricula specific to Africa, recruit top teachers from all over the world, and teach talented African children... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
learning programs, food and other basic resources, and health services for more than 1,200 children each week in this underserved community. “We had to rethink the operation of our food pantry. We had to develop learning materials that... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
Inside, in a classroom decorated with student art, children gather on a colorful carpet for story time. But the traditional trappings are only part of the story at The Primary School, an ambitious experiment in reinventing education to... View Details
- Portrait Project
Bena Shah
years. We will start tickle wars with our children and laugh until our bellies ache. We will surprise them with donuts on Sunday mornings and spend hours getting to know them over lazy Sunday dinners of kichadi and cudhi, which they will... View Details