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- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
through a website compared with existing customers, suggesting that categories other than pants might have prompted them to buy online. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/2TKEYULIQKLUFANjs0Nt][/div] Another notable trend: In the US and UK, View Details
- 21 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
HBS Social Enterprise Initiative Visits NYC
opportunity to work directly with an education agency on the types of strategic issues that have the potential to impact thousands of kids and entire communities.” HBS Leadership Fellows: A visit to Harlem Children’s Zone connected us...
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Nonprofit / Government
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Moving to the U.S. With a Family - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
potential and his prospects, Chertavian was determined to help expand options for Heredia and kids like him. “I saw that David had enormous talent and drive, but he needed help to reach his full potential,” says Chertavian, adding an...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Batteries and Chocolates
double or triple duty. Sometimes, being the woman means great things fall at your feet. More often, though, it means another Saturday afternoon or Thursday evening spent showing up to make someone else look better. It doesn't have to be this way. Women can have View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
Illustration by Gisela Goppel Illustration by Gisela Goppel By Connie Baher (MBA 1980) I was standing in New York’s Asia Society Museum when I saw it. A high school kid from Connecticut, I’d taken the train to the big city and was nosing...
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- 06 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
Casey Gerald: Becoming a Leader at HBS
this scrawny kid from our neighborhood could go to a place like Yale and it meant so much to them. I went really because I thought I couldn’t afford not to go. Once there, Yale really opened my eyes in so many ways. One, to the potential...
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- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
administrator on his team. After her father, Sergeant Jerome Lemon, was killed in Iraq in 2004, the nonprofit stepped in to help fund Jervon’s college education. Today, she speaks to the kids who are just like her. “So she’s on the phone...
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Maureen Harmon
- 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....
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- 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....
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- 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...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
part of a terrific management strategy book. The lesson is to never prejudge a book! —Ambi Parameswaran (AMP 186, 2014) The Paper Palace, by Miranda Cowley Heller, is an immersive, literary, emotional, and utterly captivating story about a middle-aged woman with three...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
the conversations were not about business. They were about what the Detroit Lions did that week or what was happening with a kid in my class. Coming into the corporate environment felt like a foreign language to me.” Pass it on: “Having...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Net Gains
responsibility. "We're trying to teach these kids not just about the game but also about life," says Tatum. The next step in developing the market—which Tatum notes has one of the youngest populations of any region in the world—is an NBA...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
some of the case examples were unacceptable, there was another side to this story. One of my classmates mentioned how in their country some families can't afford food, and that sometimes the only option is to have their kids start working...
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- 02 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
science and engineering. But those paths never felt like quite the right fit. "Since high school, I had done volunteer work with homeless kids and vulnerable children and domestic violence victims," she says. "Somehow, that really spoke...
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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to...
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- 28 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
now provides nearly three-quarters of the flexible funding available to principals in the Palo Alto school district. “Most of the band members either have or had kids in Palo Alto schools, so that’s a huge motivator,” says Scheel. “But...
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- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
parents of all 600 schoolchildren. In today’s world, she told them, kids need to learn how to relate to the other sex. Deza’s sales pitch worked. Only four parents transferred their children elsewhere. Today, Casuarinas International...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
EducationSuperHighway helped the district install fiber-optic cable. Because of the faster and more reliable service, the district can now provide “one-to-one” computing—meaning each student has a device in the classroom. “Everything is online and in apps. We’re moving...
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