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Arnab Mishra
I walk into the office of my own business and to treasure the moment that business signs its first paying customer. I want to be with my parents to see the sun rise and set over the Himalayas. I want to be waiting, camera in hand, when my... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
Scott Roth (MBA 1994) in the Black Hills of South Dakota as the pair discussed ways to help. What Kim wanted to do was build a foundation that would aid in funding the college educations of military children who had lost a parent in the... View Details
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- Portrait Project
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
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Nourishing the Next Generation
developed a lot of their food habits, yet,” Kohn says. “If you present them with healthy food options and there is good, positive peer pressure from their classmates, their teachers, and their families, these kids will try new things.” Sometimes, says Kohn, the harder... View Details
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Eric Chavez
Eric Chavez, the son of immigrants who moved from Mexico to find greater opportunity in the United States, “does not take this life for granted.” His parents worked their way up from picking lemons in California to maintaining properties... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sarah Sommer
"Your daughter is deaf and she may never read beyond a fourth grade reading level," the doctor told my parents when I was two. 30 years later when I greet each day by putting on my "ears" -- my cochlear implants -- I... View Details
- Portrait Project
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
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1.23 Pregnancy, Childbirth & Adoption during Business School | MBA
the assignments and course material covered during their leave. Parental Leave Policy and Resources for Students Experiencing the Birth of a Child or Adoption While Enrolled at HBS Students who are adopting a child or whose partner will... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
A Passion for Education
parents. The Robert L. Ryan Fellowship has supported 18 students since Ryan launched the fellowship in 2004. Providing funding for future generations of MBA students is a fitting way for Ryan to recognize the value of education that his View Details
- Portrait Project
Cyril Abel Vergis
As a first-generation, first-born American, I grew up believing that my motivation was derived from the self-imposed pressure to take advantage of the opportunities my parents did not have. I strove to make the right choices, to take... View Details
- Portrait Project
Craig Maughan
opportunities they need to succeed in life? On reflection, probably not. As much as my parents gave me, they fell short (so did their parents). But along the way, others helped me fill in the gaps. That’s why I will spend my life giving... View Details
- Portrait Project
Viroopa Volla
Two babies were born in the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant government hospital at 11:38 p.m. one Monday in 1991. The father in the other room left as soon as he saw that it was a girl. My father stayed and believed that I was the most beautiful thing in the world. My View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
thirties, restructuring the marketing organization for a large regional bank, and my husband, Ray Benvenuti (MBA 1986), and I had two children under seven. At that time, I had no inkling of what would be required to juggle the needs of two dying View Details
- Portrait Project
Kasia Biezychudek
My parents would not allow the weight of the iron curtain to hide my stage. Suitcase in hand, they uprooted their lives in Poland and started over to give my brother Piotr and me opportunities they never had. With each experience I... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Amy Reinhard
I can't stand sitting on the sidelines. I've always wanted to be in the game. When I was eight years old, I told my parents I wanted to play Little League baseball with the boys. Luckily, my parents didn't... View Details
- Portrait Project
Tara Hagan
day. As the second-oldest child adopted into a multiracial family of nine in small-town Oklahoma, I almost didn’t go to college. We couldn’t afford it. Besides, I didn’t know anyone who had finished college. My parents pushed me to... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Susan Hamilton
professional and to be the kind of mother I want to be. I miss work to take my children to the doctor. I take client calls while at the playground. I want to send a message - parenting v. professionalism is not a zero-sum game. View Details
- Portrait Project
Matthew Naunheim
My parents gave me scars. The pale pink one on my left knee was from Dad, a surgeon, who meticulously sutured a puncture wound made when I fell on a rusty nail. The jagged arc on my forearm was from Mom, an emergency physician, who... View Details
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Alok Sanghvi
in. I want to plot my course with someone I love. I am not sure that I've found her yet, but I think I'm getting close. I want to ask my parents for directions. The best map of my life is the one they continue to draw for me in dinner... View Details