Filter Results:
(82)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(222)
- People (1)
- News (82)
- Research (66)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (16)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(222)
- People (1)
- News (82)
- Research (66)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (16)
Sort by
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
always positioned itself as a fun toy that helps children develop, and it enjoys a healthy relationship with schools and educators throughout the world. About 90 percent of U.S. preschools and kindergartens use LEGO products. Its Learning Institute comprises an... View Details
- 10 Aug 2021
- News
Moving Education Within Reach
children’s families sometimes needed medical assistance, and it certainly could get noisy in the house while Ramalingam and Scheel were also raising their own two children. But Scheel says her husband was motivated by a belief that helping one View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
achieve goals together.” Every sail is remarkable, but one stands out for Callahan as particularly extraordinary. It was an occasion when a highly functioning autistic child volunteered to steer the boat with him. “A few minutes later, a... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
communities across the country to better serve some of our most vulnerable populations. READ MORE Luna: You joined Code for America in June of 2017 and you talked openly about how current events and the upcoming birth of your third child... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
1981. The School's Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, Herzlinger is the author of seven best-selling books, including her landmark volume Market-Driven Health Care (1997), which analyzed the revolutionary impact of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
your own 'storefront' on the Internet." READ MORE Cynthia A. Fisher - Viacord, Inc. Shikhar Ghosh - Open Market Joyce I. Greenberg - Take Good Care Monique Maddy - African Communications Group Steven C. Walske - Parametric Technology... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
hemophiliac, I knew I was different, but that was just normal life for me,” Massie recalls. “My family led a very romantic existence; we had a great time.” Yet as a child with a chronic illness (“the constant shadow,” he once wrote) that... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
with me. They wanted some advice on setting up a small business that they were doing. These women were all widows and rape survivors from the war. Their children had been abducted, they had been raped by soldiers, their husbands had been killed, and they were banded... View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- News
Looking at Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada
conversation covered a range of issues, including the new $30 billion Canadian child care budget, which Collenette called “potentially transformative,” the likelihood that work-from-home arrangements will... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
crucibles when you lost your fiancé shortly before your wedding, and then your mother as well. Can you talk about how that experience shaped you? BG: Well, I was in my mid-twenties and I'm an only child and I was very close to my mother.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
managers are making strides toward finding new career models that better suit their reality. If not the "perfect answer" to the parenting/ career dichotomy, their approach at least validates their dual desire to care for their families... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax mobile clinic in greater Boston he helped to cofound. Photos courtesy David Valesquez David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax mobile clinic in greater Boston he helped to cofound.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
mothers who suddenly find themselves, not their kids, taking care of feeding and the associated hassles of lugging home huge bags of kibble. “Customers have told us that SmartPaks help them to realize their lofty visions of pet ownership,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
involved here, and we need to take care of that. We also need to decide whether reproduction is some sort of human right or whether infertility is a medical condition. If the answer is yes to either of those, then we should pay for it, as... View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
second company, SynapDx, launched in 2009 while he was still at HBS, is developing a blood test for early diagnosis of autism. "With autism, there is a small window of opportunity," he says. "If you can give a parent a diagnosis when the View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
especially for early education care providers given social distancing, the lower numbers of kids that can be in the classroom, the cleaning protocols, etc. SY: Are there any silver linings in this difficult time? JP: I feel like it's a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
child and wants to be there for your child. And at the same time, you are a fully committed, diligent, and dedicated member of the team or member of your organization, a top-flight professional who gets the job done, and who’s working... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
few pennies to that dollar. Lack of social supports, such as child care and paid sick leave, is another ever-present issue the pandemic laid bare. It could explain why some women have elected to leave the... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
great-grandmother had her first child at age 17 and had twin boys at age 49. If you keep that in mind, you can see why it’s not always possible for cousins to find each other when their parents or grandparents emigrated to the United... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
pandemics more likely. Aside from pandemics, what are WHO’s chief concerns? WHO has four major objectives: enhancing global health security by detecting and responding to disease outbreaks; accelerating progress on the UN Millennium Development Goals, which include... View Details