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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
math. They also had parents with the resources and knowledge to keep them academically engaged. Now the brother-and-sister team is trying to extend those same advantages to all Indian children through Rocket Learning, the edtech nonprofit... View Details
- Portrait Project
Kelly Quinn
My dad taught me to play baseball. With a batting tee my parents bought, my sister and I created an infield in the front yard. Our towering elm trees stood as first and third base. My dad pitched to me on that homemade field countless... View Details
- Portrait Project
Eric Justin
My parents love biographies, so as a homeschooled kid, I read many, many biographies of great people. I felt like the luckiest kid in the world that “school” meant hanging out on the couch with my mom reading together about Teddy... View Details
- Career Coach
Becca Carnahan
resumes, cover letters, and LinkedIn profiles and specializes in personal branding and storytelling. Becca is a proud working mom of two from Massachusetts and writes about her humorous parenting experiences for her blog and other top... View Details
- Portrait Project
Wilson Kyi
Filial piety. My deep reverence for my parents is captured in this Confucian philosophy. But I can no longer live for them. I used to stake out with my dad in our auto body shop, fending off armed burglars from stealing car radios and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Juan Felix
"There's more than one way to carry money," my parents promised me over the phone. It was simple advice. A few nights before, my mother had given me a roll of bills. She told me to stick the cash in my socks rather than risk... View Details
- Portrait Project
Mark Giragosian
I had never had a dance lesson, but the moment the show ended I ran up on stage and began jumping and turning in celebration of my newly discovered passion. My parents signed me up for lessons. I became the ‘ballet boy’ at school. Some... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
The Work-Life Balancing Act
parenting can be both profound and deeply rewarding, they write. Which isn’t to say that it’s easy: For 50 to 60 percent of working parents, achieving a sense of work-life balance is a challenge, they write. In “5 Questions New Working... View Details
- Portrait Project
Gavriel Goidel
was welcome. Son of two loving parents who had never finished high school, I was taught to play it safe, follow the religious lifestyle, and not question the norms. Harvard seemed like a distant universe. Years later, as I was admitted, I... View Details
- 23 Oct 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
is committed to engaging parents through parent coaches and parent discussion groups. This year a second school will open in Hayward, California, but Liu is perhaps even more... View Details
- Portrait Project
Zuriel Chavez
I keep a pair of World War II Naval dog tags framed in my living room. They are stamped with the name “James P. Lapp” and represent the impact one man can make. In April 1985, I was carried to this country by my young parents who were... View Details
- 11 Apr 2020
- News
Reading Together, Apart
When Max Tuchman (MBA 2012) and her cofounder launched the storybook app Caribu in 2017, they knew their product would be a hit with parents who want to be able to read with their children each night, even when traveling—and with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
with some of firms’ highest-achieving employees often ended with questions about how to manage the demands of parenting and work. Much of the information she found was long on platitudes and short on practical, actionable advice—so she... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Enabling families to navigate the aging process
Caring for her aging parents led Janet Simpson Benvenuti (MBA 1985) to launch a company that helps other families find resources that are right for their own parents’ needs. (Published November 2014) View Details
- 20 May 2020
- News
Keeping Families Connected
call. “We could not live with ourselves if there was a child who couldn’t have a magical, memorable, experience with a grandparent because a parent had just lost their job and couldn’t pay the monthly fee,” explains Tuchman. “We’re a... View Details
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Minh Chau
I will live each day like it is everyone else's last. It was Sunday March 13th, 2011. I was helping my parents load up their car to head back to Pennsylvania. I had just moved to NYC after college, and my View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
A Steady Voice in Difficult Times
Denise Welsh (MBA 1981) is a pediatric chaplain at Mount Sinai Medical Center, a second career after having spent many years in the finance field. In this video, she talks about her role in the intensive care unit and the impact of helping View Details
- Portrait Project
Sunru Yong
Surrounded by friends with cars better equipped to both impress girls and top 60 mph, I wavered between self-consciousness and an absurd delight in the beast of a car my parents had salvaged just for me. In retrospect, I recognize in her... View Details
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
psychologist Diana Baumrind on parenting styles. Her research highlights four parenting "prototypes" oriented along two dimensions: the level of direction parents... View Details
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Irene So
cheerleading camps, and college tuitions for my sister and me. To me, my parents are the definition of sacrifice. They emigrated from Korea and worked incredibly hard to build a life for us in America. And for that - for the years of... View Details