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- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
invest in the educational and professional potential of men and women whose young lives were spent as migrant farm workers. Living by the cycle of fruit harvests, a basic education for these kids was often out of reach or incomplete, and...
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- 22 Nov 2011
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A Storybook Beginning
our ‘customers’ — kids who otherwise wouldn’t get to read Robinson Crusoe or his own childhood favorite Half Magic.” Creating Worldreader has also allowed for personal growth, says Risher, who was recently honored with a Microsoft...
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Patrick Chun
developing leadership with teenagers in emerging markets. "The question is how can we impact and re-orient parent mindsets? How do we convince them to get kids thinking about leadership at an earlier age?" Leading through...
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- 06 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Curtis Wu (MBA 2018)
years Did 2+2 change your path or alter your post-undergraduate plans?Growing up, I was an awkward and nerdy kid (and still am). After classes, you could find me making flamethrowers, rock candy, and California snowballs for Chemistry...
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- 05 Aug 2015
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Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
work there before launching Bantay—raising funds for education and rural health care. “It’s good, but not very scalable,” he says. “And also, I’m not a great fundraiser. So it would be a lot of work just to send one kid to college.” Prior...
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- 11 Jul 2013
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The Good Writer
in Hollywood, it began to seem like a possibility that a middle-class kid from Toronto could have a career out here.” Dick performed in the Hasty Pudding theatricals as an undergraduate at Harvard and co-wrote the script for the HBS show...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
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Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
reverse of mine. She had her children early; in fact, her kids were out of the house by the time she was 40. And she had her career later. After thirty years in various Washington libraries, she retired this February as head librarian of...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
longer-term kids have returned to say “thank you.” We still consider one boy — now a man — part of the family. In 2001, DD and I started thinking about the Peace Corps. Our children were grown, and we were free to do what we both had...
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- 16 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
Out of PE, Into Africa
important as we think we are, and people can get by without us. If it is important to you, make it happen! You have the rest of your life to work. Even while the financial piece may seem daunting and irrational, it is doubtful you’ll regret it when your View Details
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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...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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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...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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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...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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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,...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Rich Wilson
their wings; they circle the world and spend months at sea. Why did you sail this race? I started sailing in Marblehead, Massachusetts, as a kid and have always loved it. I’m severely asthmatic, on four medications a day, so the clean air...
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- 21 Aug 2014
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HBS Social Enterprise Initiative Visits NYC
opportunity to work directly with an education agency on the types of strategic issues that have the potential to impact thousands of kids and entire communities.” HBS Leadership Fellows: A visit to Harlem Children’s Zone connected us...
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Moving to the U.S. With a Family - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 25 Aug 2014
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Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
potential and his prospects, Chertavian was determined to help expand options for Heredia and kids like him. “I saw that David had enormous talent and drive, but he needed help to reach his full potential,” says Chertavian, adding an...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Batteries and Chocolates
double or triple duty. Sometimes, being the woman means great things fall at your feet. More often, though, it means another Saturday afternoon or Thursday evening spent showing up to make someone else look better. It doesn't have to be this way. Women can have View Details
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Kimball Thomas
with his cousin Davis in the Silicon Valley where they will “crank on new business ideas.” Kimball will test the best of them in the Business Plan Competition next year. Meanwhile, Kimball never studies alone; he’s joined at HBS by his wife, Wendy, and baby, Jack....
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Ink
Tracking.” Excerpt “They’d watch for the ice man, pick up the small loose pieces that fell when he was carrying the ice, and suck on them like popsicles. They used to stand under the railway bridge at Queen and De Grassi Streets when the steam engine was on the tracks....
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