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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
when the future of the business hinged on a single decision. For Sarina Russo (OPM 28, 1999), founder and president of the Sarina Russo Group of education, employment services, and property companies, that moment came in 1993 when she... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
deteriorated, and crime increased. "I remember feeling that my parents and neighbors were victims of forces beyond their control," Jones says. Later, while earning a degree at the University of San Diego, Jones, at age 23, became chief of... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the decades of research and teaching that began immediately after World War II. By the late 1960s, however, institutional interest in the subject (reflective of broader educational trends) had waned, and the School's "curriculum" in entrepreneurship took the form of a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Americans, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Ivy League alums, high-school grads, and parents offers coping strategies to help ordinary people turn challenges into extraordinary opportunities for action. College Sports Traditions: Before,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Balance Pouring yourself into a single full-time job is the riskiest move you can make. Your parents ’ advice to focus on one career path? It doesn’t work anymore, for reasons ranging from recessions to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
speech in which he thanked a number of people for their support over the years, singling out his parents for special mention. "A printer by trade, my father taught me the importance of prototyping," Bricklin... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
up there. Any one of them alone is taxing enough, but Monica Dodi has experienced all three in the past two years. Yet the unstoppable entertainment executive, now a single mom, is still smiling and upbeat. "I'm happy and where I want to... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
two-parent families in the United States with children reported both parents working full-time in 2015—up from less than a third in 1970. For some, there has been a tangible impact on their professional lives, with 30 percent of the Pew... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
to. “They’re doing the single most interesting thing they can find at that moment—the story itself.” “It would be easier to love casinos in China, which are going to grow a lot more than magazines, but I love journalists, editors, and... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
that's the interesting part. It is those intentional activities. What can we do to influence our actions and thoughts every single day when we get out of bed to flip our brain into a positive mindset? And that's what I've been trying to... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
"I wanted to be closer to the work the Enterprise Fund was doing on the ground and to see what else I could do in Egypt—and that was too difficult to judge from the United States." In September 2018, she returned to Cairo. [music] Enan grew up with her View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
the corner store, and helped his mother, a single parent of four, sell furniture at weekend flea markets. Although his family was "periodically on welfare" and food stamps were a regular part of life, Rogers... View Details
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
I called it different boats, because all of my team members, we were all experiencing the same thing, but we were in different boats. I had some, the parents were in the whitewater rafting boat. I mean, it was so tumultuous in terms of... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
to provide early childhood education, post-trauma psychosocial support for children, parents, and women, and preschool learning materials and hygiene kits for families in container villages and other locations in the region via mobile trucks that serve as safe child... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
reforming the judiciary, and cracking the mysteries of forest and climate interaction. And then there are my Liberian friends outside of work. Many of them are young people who, while earning $100 or $200 a month, take care of their children (usually as View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
stroke; a solo parent to two sons, 11 and 14 years old, she takes a very centered, practical approach to managing her time. Depelsha Thomas McGruder: I would say my top three tips for living a balanced life. Well, one thing I said very... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Illustrated by Julie Kwon Little, Brown Books for Young Readers This children’s book by Cherie Fu is a pitch-perfect rhyming text about messiness that any child and parent can relate to, featuring a unique Chinese-American,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
natural curiosity was encouraged by his parents (and by a memorable high-school teacher), and as a child who had had glimpses of San Francisco and Washington, D.C., Stevenson recalls, “I was desperate to get to the outside world. I tried... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
and Beasts and Heroes, a battlefield strategy game—and a technology platform that Norwood hopes will unite the fragmented gaming world. On that platform, she says, players would navigate every game using the same avatar, an innovation that would change game strategy.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
just steaming around in circles." Even as Liz Claiborne circled, AMR, the parent company of American Airlines, the world's largest airline, was in the process of laying off several hundred managers, technical specialists, and clerical... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry