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- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
Gareth Olds grew up toeing the poverty line. For years his parents struggled to support three children in Anchorage, Alaska, where food costs run high. His stepfather held down a steady but low-paying job as a dental assistant, and his mom performed a series of odd... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
which is 55,000 student university in Western Australia. I gave a talk and I was looking at an audience of kids. That was around the time that Facebook was really getting traction and as I was looking at this audience of kids, I thought, wow, one of these View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
executive leadership committee, it was not normal for someone to say ‘Can we start the meeting at nine o’clock, because I want to drop the kids at school?’ I have worked to normalize that and to build a culture where people are... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
children who have the infantile/juvenile form of Pompe's will be able to establish a separate enzyme replacement clinical study at North Shore University Hospital in New York during the first quarter of 1999. "Without this funding," notes Crowley, "these View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
also working on ways to help nonprofits. Currently reading Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Nonzero, a book about applying game theory to the advancement of society. Hope for your kids That they grow up to fulfill their own... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- News
Screen Saver
tremendously exciting time.” In addition to offering open enrollment classes to children, teens, and adults, the JBFC provides (often at no cost) programs for students in underserved communities and at local correctional facilities. “We’re not interested in solely... View Details
- 13 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Building a Village: Learning and Living at HBS
so right. By living thoughtfully, intentionally, and supportively, we're teaching our children to do the same. In this community, actions like bringing banana bread to a sick friend or making a card for someone going through a tough time are second nature. We're... View Details
- Web
A Catalyst for Commitment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
she says. “I met kids like me who had been born into completely different circumstances. By the time I finished high school, I was hungry to do something real in the world rather than just go straight to college.” At the time, Falik... View Details
- 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 Dec 2004
- News
GLF Showcases London
for kids ages 11 to 18. Get details and register online at www.alumni.hbs.edu/glf/. But don’t wait until the last minute. Based on the huge success of the Shanghai forum last June, the London event will quickly reach its limit of 1,000... 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
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
yet our top line, our readership, and their book consumption have stayed stable over the last 20 years. That stability may even tip toward growth as we develop the next generation of readers. There are always worries that kids are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Turning Point: On the Line
Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Day 116 was bizarrely poetic. Or poetically bizarre. And not just because I was an HBS grad participating in his second strike. To that point in last year’s... View Details
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Benjamin Wells
It's made me think about how we teach kids in middle and high schools, where they get talked to rather than talked with. It makes me wonder if we should reconsider our learning model." Confidence in the unknown The Rwanda IXP, says... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
LA Reid’s Song
shape the culture, whatever it might be, and I can tell if that’s happened—like seeing little kids going trick-or-treating dressed up as Avril Lavigne. I want to work with a John Lennon or a Bob Marley. I think that music is only more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
young kids about their lives and ambitions and ways they could make their dreams happen," he says. "Our presence in these countries can be a catalyst for building social change." See other ways HBS is deepening student and faculty global... 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
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- 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