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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
a genetic enzyme deficiency that leads to rapid muscle deterioration and death from respiratory failure, usually before age five. Although fewer than one thousand children worldwide suffer from any form of Pompe's disease, the Crowleys'... View Details
- 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
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For Guests - Commencement 2025
(HBS graduates get four guest tickets for lunch, but unlimited guests at the Diploma Ceremony). All retail dining locations on campus will be open. Children Harvard Yard Ceremony For events that require tickets (morning ceremonies in... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
Leanne Huebner (MBA 1997) was just out of college, working at her first job and volunteering her free time with foster children when a little girl asked: “Will you adopt me?” Just 22 and single, Huebner wasn’t in a position to raise... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ian McLean
how easy it was to light a fire with one match- something he previously didn't think was humanly possible. I want to make my children laugh when I teach them how to blow underwater bubbles in the pool. To make work colleagues laugh when... View Details
- Portrait Project
Claudio Knizek
through life. I dream of strolling through the plains of Africa, tasting exquisite Asian food, and exploding in joy during Brazilian Carnaval. I want my children – two, perhaps three – to be true global citizens. I want them to be... View Details
- Portrait Project
Bahia El Oddi
to spend my days playing with children in the street of Casablanca. Nobody could judge us. There was no social or racial divide. We were just equal, genuine kids. But one day, the lottery of life separated us. I went to school, while... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Philippines Outreach
his mark in the Philippines, where he spent time as a Fulbright scholar after graduating from HBS. Of his several nonprofit endeavors there, the most prominent is the Children Protection Network Foundation, whose shelters provide a menu... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
A Smooth Stretch
explained, “Yoga became a great way to work my body and quiet my mind at a time when my life as a full-time mother of two small children was feeling quite chaotic.” And yoga also offered a great business opportunity, Hanna realized, for... 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
Peter Tynan
– 'of those to whom much is given, much is expected'. And when the sun finally dips towards my horizon, I want to sit back on my verandah, reach for my wife's hand and know that the world is a better place because I lived in it. A better world, because I was given... View Details
- Portrait Project
Emily Anadu
children can do things that will make them happy. I hope I never forget how to laugh or that I can't take myself, or life, too seriously. This way, when my life has come to a close, my career accomplishments are the last things that... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Warren Luke, MBA 1970
Warren Luke’s children have also earned MBAs at HBS: Catherine (MBA 2000), Kevin (MBA 2002), and Bryan (MBA 2006). “Dad instilled in the family the value of education,” says Warren Luke, who has continued the precedent set by his father... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS Global Forum Set for June
for spouses or partners and for children ages 11 to 18. In addition, there are several pre- and post-forum tours, including trips to the Shenandoah and the Blue Ridge mountains and to Civil War battlefields at Manassas and Gettysburg. View Details
- 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
- 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