Children - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2014
News

Helping smallholder farmers feed the world

training to impoverished communities worldwide, to create healthy local economies. “More than three million children under age five die each year from preventable, hunger-related causes,” he explains. “That shocks me. I have to make my... View Details

23 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Trends in Consumer Products

General Mills products saw significant increases. In fact, Nature Valley Granola Bars sales declined as children stayed home for virtual school. With parents not packing lunches and children eating at home,... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Addressing The Financial Security Gap

explains. “Given that women make 82 cents on the dollar, this income gap affects not only earnings but also retirement savings, creating a gender pension gap. Some of that is because of the industries we go into, and also because we are caregivers for View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

Portrait Project

Missy Blakeley

my grandmas, bake banana bread, sleep with stuffed animals, dance in front of the mirror, decorate with sprinkles, giggle without inhibition, enjoy rainy days, plant flowers, and do my own laundry. I will love for what's real. I will make mistakes and learn from them.... View Details

17 Apr 2014
News

Support for the Global Century

extraordinary gift provides permanent funding to support the School’s international research and course development activities in an era Dean Nitin Nohria has called “a new global century of business.” Over the past decade, the family (all three of the Greenhills’... View Details

01 Jan 2010
News

Marvin S. Traub, MBA 1949

This spring he planned and helped to open a 200,000-square-foot Bloomingdale’s in Dubai. At Traub’s side throughout has been his wife, Lee, whom he married after his first year at HBS. The pair still travel together — on his business trips and to spend time with their... View Details

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business of Babies

it is in other markets." We're not talking about demand for potato chips. This is the kind of demand that becomes an obsession.— Debora Spar There are both low- and high-tech supplies of children, Spar continued. With ten million AIDS orphans in Africa and more... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

15 Sep 2015
News

Easing the Costs of Saving a Child

providing interest-free loans, education, and advocacy. “There are 10-14 million voiceless children trapped in these hell holes around the world. We knew we would only be one arrow in the quiver to rescue the Andrews of the world, but we... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

31 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 31

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-004.pdf Children Develop a Veil of Fairness Authors:A., N. Montinari Shaw, M. Piovesan, K.R. Olson, F. Gino, and M.I. Norton Abstract Previous research suggests that View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Sep 2006
Op-Ed

Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do

compensation committee wants to admit that its CEO is below the median. In fact, most want to place their CEO in the upper quartile. As a result, CEOs are like the children of Lake Wobegon—all are above average. Another upward pressure... View Details

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch

Portrait Project

Viroopa Volla

that saw girls as burdens, women that were dependents of men. In Minnesota, my mother shared stories from her past. My great-grandmother raised ten children on her own after her husband died. Another great-grandmother built a large... View Details

Portrait Project

Joshua Wyatt

desire to build a global family that leads me toward my future hotel empire. Some may view hotels as a place to rest for a night. I view hotels as a landscape, a canvas for the evening; my hotels will be a wide world under one roof. One day, I will teach my View Details

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Diane Hessan

I grew up in a working-class town where children grew up, got married, and moved into their childhood homes. Everyone was happy but didn't much care about the rest of the world. I read every copy of National Geographic I could, and on a... View Details

25 Apr 2016
News

Innovating Education to Create College-Ready Academic Achievers

Ian Rowe (MBA 1993) is navigating a clear path to success for students at Public Prep, a network of tuition-free charter schools in New York City. Like the North Star-shaped model that frames the schools’ mission, Rowe is building a foundation for View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Building a better India through business and philanthropy

chairman of Pratham, the largest non-governmental organization in India, which provides education for underprivileged children with programs such as its “Read India” campaign. (Published April 2014) View Details

Portrait Project

Mamongae Mahlare

Allocate time and energy to initiatives for the primary benefit of my beloved South Africa Many lives were sacrificed for my freedom And with political freedom comes great responsibility To achieve economic emancipation So our children... View Details

09 Jun 2015
News

Lessons in perseverance lead to high-quality schools for Peru

Pilar Deza (OPM 30, 2001) went from opening a nursery in her garage for four neighborhood children to operating some of Peru’s best-run private schools. She faced challenges all along the way, trying to create and operate new schools... View Details

Portrait Project

Michael Echenberg

splendor in love and marriage and children. My love of children has just become concrete like never before with the arrival of my niece and nephew, Anna and Jake. I want to seek the splendor in my career. I want to become expert at... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

A Miller's Tale

Norwich, Vermont. In 1996, realizing that none of their children wanted to continue the business, the Sandses began to turn over ownership to their 150 employees. "Seeing the men and women who work here strive to reach their full... View Details

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Crimson Parents | MBA

Dean's family Holiday parties for families Mothers/Fathers nights out Friday field trips for children Educational groups for children: music, dance, yoga, soccer, sign language and much more! Speaking series focused on families Club Email... View Details

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