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- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
life from graduating in 2009 has been profound. My kids literally wouldn't exist if it weren't for the financial crisis. My biggest piece of advice, aside from power through, is to remember that what you see on social media is nobody's... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
execute. Saying hi to your team in the morning, picking up your kids from day care. Just do it. On things that...take a lot of time and aren't very important, you have to regulate those. That's the 147 average emails we get a day. That's... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
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... View Details
- Profile
Casey Gerald
“Truth is, there weren’t a lot of kids around me going to an Ivy League school.” Initially “convinced” he would become a lawyer, a summer internship within a law firm “quickly disabused me of the idea.” Investment banking came next,... View Details
- 20 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
How HBS Prepared Me to Lead a Company on Day One
You Learn Long-Term Leadership Strategy I loved the HBS classroom experience, but I recall initially doubting the power of the case method style of learning. Surely you can just teach us accounting rules without debating! I was like Daniel LaRusso in the Karate View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- News
Progress Through Preservation
role with the Trust, a national nonprofit that works to conserve land for use as parks and gardens, from the inner city to the wilderness, is to ensure that nature sticks around for quite some time—for his kids and their kids. "Children,"... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
beaten play for the championship. In effect, an adults-only paperwork controversy cost the kids a championship of their own. Fortunately, Swearengin noted, “The team all told me they felt like champions, which, for a coach, is a great... View Details
- Profile
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.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
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.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
"near-peers," helping kids to stay in school and on track. City Year was founded by Harvard Law School graduates Alan Khazei and Michael Brown with Jennifer Eplett Reilly (MBA 1990). Similarly, health care could use paraprofessionals to... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
Rich Alton, section E class of 2009. So I work out of a home office, and I have five kids and so there's lots of noise around. So I do my best thinking whenever I put on my noise-canceling headphones, and my trick to doing good thinking... View Details
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
Research that explores how children benefit from having a working mom blew away the field for most popular feature article on Harvard Business School Working Knowledge in 2015. With nearly 84,000 visits, twice the number of the second most popular article, View Details
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
"My goal is to get athletes—and kids who are thinking about becoming athletes—to start thinking of themselves as businesses and not just athletes," he said. Sherman took the opportunity, as he has in previous public forums, to... View Details
- Profile
James Reinhart
Old clothes, it turned out, was not nearly as big a problem for men and women as it was for young kids — and their parents. Children’s clothes did create a significant problem for consumers because they are outgrown every couple of... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Making Lives Better
predicted. It's a long-term goal, but daughter Jodie, who is now 16, motivates her mother every day. "I'm helping her, and all the kids and adults like her, to have a better future. I'm fortunate that I went to business school and I can... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
have to have a clear mind and have energy inside you. I was taught since I was a kid that I have to drink a little bit of olive oil in the morning when I wake up, and I always do. And that gives me energy, certainly. But the important... View Details
- Portrait Project
Mardie Oakes
that light shine on everyone, brown or white, rich or poor, healthy or sick, lucky or not. And I promise to never tell my kids not to splash me in the pool so they won't mess up my hair. April 2006: Reflections on my essay from 2002 It is... View Details
- 20 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Being patients compelled us. Sequoia inspired us. HBS sustained us.
around with our kids (Lazer age 4 and Yara age 2!) and let us intrude on them when we’re miles from home. My sectionmates simply astound me. One shunned a seven figure salary to live on food stamps and finish his medical residency. Two... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
2021 48th Annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference Honors Black Women Leaders
and accessible experience,” said Williams. “Many issues related to pipeline and access to opportunities for kids from diverse backgrounds is one of early exposure. The virtual and free nature of the event really lowered the barriers to... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
unwinds by playing the harmonica, often with an audience of just one: Baron, his Bernese Mountain Dog. “My wife and kids have stopped listening, but that’s OK,” he laughs. “The music takes me to a simpler place and keeps me grounded.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg