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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Helping smallholder farmers feed the world
training to impoverished communities worldwide, to create healthy local economies. “More than three million children under age five die each year from preventable, hunger-related causes,” he explains. “That shocks me. I have to make my... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
a genetic enzyme deficiency that leads to rapid muscle deterioration and death from respiratory failure, usually before age five. Although fewer than one thousand children worldwide suffer from any form of Pompe's disease, the Crowleys'... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
Real Students of HBS Webinar Series: Coming to HBS with Kids
This webinar will focus on coming to HBS with children and will include a Q&A with a student panel. The webinar will begin at 4 PM EST. View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Balancing business goals and social benefits
Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992), former chairman of Microsoft India, talks about the social and business benefits of teaching more than 3 million children to use computers. (Published April 2014) View Details
- Portrait Project
Viroopa Volla
that saw girls as burdens, women that were dependents of men. In Minnesota, my mother shared stories from her past. My great-grandmother raised ten children on her own after her husband died. Another great-grandmother built a large... View Details
- Portrait Project
Joshua Wyatt
desire to build a global family that leads me toward my future hotel empire. Some may view hotels as a place to rest for a night. I view hotels as a landscape, a canvas for the evening; my hotels will be a wide world under one roof. One day, I will teach my View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Diane Hessan
I grew up in a working-class town where children grew up, got married, and moved into their childhood homes. Everyone was happy but didn't much care about the rest of the world. I read every copy of National Geographic I could, and on a... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Innovating Education to Create College-Ready Academic Achievers
Ian Rowe (MBA 1993) is navigating a clear path to success for students at Public Prep, a network of tuition-free charter schools in New York City. Like the North Star-shaped model that frames the schools’ mission, Rowe is building a foundation for View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Building a better India through business and philanthropy
chairman of Pratham, the largest non-governmental organization in India, which provides education for underprivileged children with programs such as its “Read India” campaign. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A World of Reading
David Risher (MBA 1991) cofounded Worldreader to help one million children who today have nothing to read get access to the libraries of the world. The nonprofit has sent one million e-books to more than 13,000 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
- 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
- 13 Sep 2006
- Op-Ed
Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do
compensation committee wants to admit that its CEO is below the median. In fact, most want to place their CEO in the upper quartile. As a result, CEOs are like the children of Lake Wobegon—all are above average. Another upward pressure... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch
- Portrait Project
Richard Linder
her goal of building a medical practice that benefits our community and for us to raise children that are creative and honest. I will consider new ideas and spend life being challenged by the inner-children around me. Let's face it;... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ryan Kauppila
"When you laugh, everyone laughs with you. Cry, and cry alone. So you best put a grin on that face right now!" No matter the circumstance or tragedy, those were my grandma's words of 'comfort'. The youngest of 17 children and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Keys to the Kingdom
Yorkers in the future.” Added Rhea, who grew up in Detroit and attended its public schools, “I know what it’s like to be from a place where both parents are working hard to help give their children a better life and access to quality... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Last Look
the summer of 1946 or 1947, although budding trees may suggest an earlier season and the automobile (at lower right) a later year. HBS research associate Joan McCue also suspects a picnic may be in progress, or that mothers working or studying at HBS used strollers to... View Details
- Career Coach
Meredith Hamilton
Home for Children (EVP & COO), Jumpstart (Strategy & Operations SVP), Citizen Schools (HBS Leadership Fellow), Teach for America (Summer Intern), The Guidance Center (Fundraising Manager), Prudential (Management Associate) View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/BFSWIPO.pdf Luck or Cheating? A Field Experiment on Honesty with Children Authors:Alessandro Bucciol and Marco Piovesan Publication:Journal of Economic Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract We run an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Education Revolution
falling short, especially in science and math. “If we don’t take control of our schools,” Compton said, “we are condemning our children to a life of struggle and declining standards of living, and that’s not the life I want to give my... View Details