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19 Jul 2023
Blog Post

A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations

Coast. “Growing up and moving around, educational media helped me develop multi-culturally; it helped me continue to learn English and see what’s happening in the rest of the world.” Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) Her own parents have held key... View Details

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

entity be able to thrive if denuded to some extent from the parent platform economies and technologies?” LockedOnLeaders asked how Google or FB could actually be broken up. “They own the virtual real estate, and I don’t see how you take... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

01 Jun 2023
News

In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental

Ngoyi at the Fund for Export Development in Africa: creating sustainable development at scale. (Courtesy of Marlene Ngoyi) Born in Brussels to Congolese parents and raised in Gabon, Marlene Ngoyi (MBA 2009) has lived and worked in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investment; exports; infrastructure; life experience; finance; Finance

01 Oct 2002
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Michael F. Cronin

Boston office. In 1991, with Michael Lazarus, he founded Weston Presidio. Cronin and his wife, Marian, whom he met while at HBS, have been married for 22 years and are the parents of three teenagers. He has given generously of his time... View Details

21 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

themselves, who had to be comfortable using the Ellie Care platform. For both groups, the overall message was that Ellie Care would provide them with a sense of freedom. For caretaker children, it meant peace of mind that their parents... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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Derek Ferguson

close-knit community where his father owned a trucking company. Although neither of his parents finished college, both stressed the importance of education. After skipping two grades and gaining admission to the academically rigorous... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

Portrait Project

Jennifer Wu

Mom lay on the bathroom floor, her face ashen as she threw up once more. Dad and I hovered over her, fretful and anxious, as we debated calling an ambulance. Thankfully, it turned out to be a bout of food poisoning that quickly passed. I was visiting my View Details

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Debora L. Spar | About

the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Bentley University. She has also served on the boards of Goldman Sachs and the Wallace and Markle Foundations. Spar earned her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and her B.S. from Georgetown University’s School of... View Details

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Life & Leadership After HBS - Race, Gender & Equity

and women, particularly those parenting young children. Drawing on the most recent Life & Leadership data, this report examines how alumni in dual-career families navigate the intersection of career and family, including differences in... View Details

28 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)

essential to quality of life. Education breeds opportunity which, in turn, elevates life. So having parents and grandparents who were not afforded those opportunities meant that their lives took forms different from what mine ever will.... View Details

02 Dec 2019
News

Championing the HBS Fund

expert in endocrinology who serves as a clinical professor of medicine at Stanford, and Stavropoulos is a partner at Threshold Ventures, an early-stage VC firm that spun out of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ). The parents of three children,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 Apr 2023
News

Leading the Way

community," says Trujillo. "My parents never finished high school." Trujillo's mentor, Pete Garcia, a community leader who worked to empower poor families, set him on the path to success, and it was Garcia's reminders to "be a leader"... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

expect someone to be fully present, eight hours a day, when they have a three-year-old with crayons drawing on the wall, or an elderly parent who needs help navigating the stairs.” THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too

the daily gathering of parents and kids at the same table every night for dinner can make that time feel less like eating an ordinary meal and more like sharing a meaningful family ritual. Types of rituals: from date nights to chores In... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2002
News

Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction

Okeho, a town of about 2,500, before his family moved to Wisconsin so his parents could attend graduate school. When he was eight, the family returned to Nigeria, where Gbadegesin experienced culture shock in reverse. “I didn't fit in... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; democracy; family; technology; Finance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Jan 2013
News

Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987

concept lines around comfort. Jacobson and her team reversed Keds' 25 percent annual sales declines with double-digit growth in sales and profits. After a few years, the parent company, Stride Rite, wanted to promote her to COO. "The... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

whether it's learning algorithms or derivatives or parenting or riding a bicycle." "One of the things we find is that if you ignore [B players] long enough, they begin to see themselves as low performers," DeLong said.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Feb 2017
Blog Post

How I Chose My HBS Recommenders

My name is Ali. I’m an EC in the MBA program, and I’m from Syria. I was born in Los Angeles, where my parents were living at the time, but spent my formative years in Damascus. I attended Boston University where I got my BS and MEng in... View Details

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

offices, kitchen tables, and bedrooms. Parents suddenly needed to juggle homeschooling while learning how to be effective remote workers. Working from home during a global pandemic has introduced new formats, patterns, challenges, and... View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

02 Aug 2007
What Do You Think?

How Will Millennials Manage?

of their childhood. Others attribute it to Baby Boomer parents more devoted to their children than those of other generations, with children who regard them as "pals" as well as parents. Some ascribe it to a society in which... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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