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- 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
- 08 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
4 Unexpected Things I Learned at HBS
broadened. 4. I learned the value of community I can’t help but smile thinking about the number of different classmates who went out of their way to help each other over the past two years. Whether it was babysitting a classmate’s kids on... View Details
- Portrait Project
Vibha Kaushik
over-simplified, but I don't care. I guess I am the one obsessed with education this time. In my country, nine out of ten children don't complete school. I will open schools. I will educate India. I will hold as many hands and get as many View Details
- 11 Apr 2020
- News
Reading Together, Apart
as a quasi babysitting service, enabling grandparents to bond with their grandchildren while parents take breaks to shower or make an important call. Another is that kids are using the app for virtual playdates. They can play tic-tac-toe... View Details
- 31 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom
advertising; if you want to reach a narrow audience, you do niche advertising. But these marketers realized the best way to create cachet for a young audience was to make it inaccessible and let the kids discover it on their own. Q: So... View Details
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 4/5
space has endured nearly 20 years, and one of my White middle school classmates is still a close friend that I talk to about racism often. I’m not suggesting that exposing kids to racial injustice will singlehandedly solve the problems of... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
throughout Latin America for GTECH, a Rhode Island–based firm, but when the company expanded into casino gaming and wanted Dyson to manage the portfolio, it was finally too much. He was already spending 80 percent of his time traveling abroad, and his three View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
Walt Minnick (MBA 1966), a successful businessman and former Democratic congressman from Idaho. “It’s the most serious problem facing humanity in the 21st century. If we want a future for our kids and grandkids, it’s imperative that our... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- Portrait Project
Jake Cusack
an 18-year old kid in 120-degree heat. The satisfaction of successfully capturing an insurgent — but then the angst of wondering what hope we were offering to the young family he left behind. The luck of getting credit undeserved. The... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Action Plan for Racial Equity
individuals who apply,” Rivkin told The Wall Street Journal. “Reducing financial barriers is key. It increases financial aid to families that have historically been unable to accumulate wealth over generations and therefore struggled to send their 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
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition,... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
there's no guarantee of that. With It, it is a book. It's a very long book, and it's an epic book that we broke up into two parts. And so the first movie is going to be the first half of the book, which is exploring when these kids are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
magazine, to no avail. Knowing that kids do this stuff, I called over my 12-year-old niece Julia, who told me, “I bet there’s an app for that.” She downloaded the free “Scanner” app and faster than you can say “HBS sings,” I was listening... View Details
- Profile
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... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
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... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
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... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna