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- 27 Mar 2012
- News
One School at a Time
back on a test.” Frock was working as a high-level executive at Corning when she decided to scale back her involvement to spend more time at home with her children, then 7 and 8 years old. After becoming more involved in the local public schools, she and a group of... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
provide the tools and services that will help older adults live longer, healthier lives. Investing in Experience Abby Miller Levy was motivated to start a venture fund in the older-adult sector after discovering a dearth of options for her View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
discovers a top-secret parenting manual, it’s kids versus grownups in this kooky, illustrated middle-grade thriller with nonstop, seat-of-your-pants action that will delight fans of Jarrett Lerner and Stuart Gibbs. When tween boy FP... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
GARRETT Ashley Garrett's 20 years as director of All Souls Soup Kitchen fed her soul. Raised and educated as a Quaker, Garrett (MBA 1987) says her family's values—consensus, equality, service, and integrity—provided her a solid foundation for a life of service. "My... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
daughter, I was technically on maternity leave and that maternity leave quickly shifted into a medical leave, which was a blessing in disguise in its own way, that I was able to be home, truly dedicated to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
amount of e-nun-ci-a-tion helps. Before long, you’re hollering into a void of inhumanity, asking to speak with a human. All this can leave us feeling that we’re being held captive in a robot-hostage situation, says Alex Sambvani (MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
and experience, hopes and aspirations. Some students arrived two years ago directly from college. A significant number had served in the military. Many brought years of on-the-job experience with private-sector and nonprofit organizations. Whatever their paths to HBS,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
wake up to find oneself deeply enmeshed in a large company, a parent or a dog owner, or the proprietor of a stately home in a suspiciously green and leafy neighborhood. But we have followed our own paths to this latest milestone, and odds... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
complete profile. As Yahoo! president, entrepreneur Sue Decker led the company’s global business operations, including sales, product, product marketing, and distribution. Since leaving Yahoo! in April 2009, she spent the past academic... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
development capabilities, ability to attract talent to teach, and growing the market to include the Greater Bay Area of Hong Kong. It ended with insightful parenting tips from these professors to our audience—a group of mostly tiger and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
of Maryland.” In the beginning: “I found business just impossible. Had you known me five or seven years into my business experience, you would’ve said, ‘We had all hoped so much for him. But it’s a shame the way this is working out.’ ” A 16-hour flight: “You should not... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
emotional difficulty of attending the faraway university, Ranadivé persevered, and in 1975 he arrived in Cambridge with fifty dollars in his pocket. He credits his parents for their support of his plans. "My family comes from a tradition... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
high odds, which Ed chronicles in his recent book On the Road Less Traveled: An Unlikely Journey from the Orphanage to the Boardroom. READ MORE Courtesy Ed Hajim Courtesy Ed Hajim In 1939 Ed Hajim's parents divorced and his mother was... View Details
- 15 Apr 2025
- News
Mothers of Invention
VC Backed Moms founders Nicole Wee (MBA 2018), Lisa Marrone (MBA 2017), and Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) Illustration by John Ritter Early in her first pregnancy, having just launched the venture she cofounded, Lisa Marrone (MBA 2017) wondered how she could take maternity... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
Illustration by Lu Zhang Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) grew up feasting on the stories her parents told about how they met and what it was like for them to leave China to start a new life in the United States. These... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
that was targeted at US-born Latino youth, like second and third-generation. So their parents had come to this country and now they're navigating two worlds. We wanted to target that population at MTV, but to do so was a complicated... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
says, “I was living a dream every time I put on that helmet. And none of my teammates, from high school All-Americans to the last guys on the bench, needed any extra motivation to leave their guts, heart, and blood on the practice field... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
control over my destiny became very important to me," he notes. Eve Benton says that her parents instilled in her the desire to be self-reliant and to know how to manage money. "I was an only child. My father was a lawyer, and my mother... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details