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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979)
positions in the private, nonprofit, and public sectors, including director of the Peace Corps, president and CEO of United Way of America, and her present post, U.S. Secretary of Labor. I remember driving to Boston with my parents to... View Details
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Maren Quezada
When Maren Quezada was eighteen, her parents took a trip from their home in Peru to the United States. “We didn’t know their plans at the time,” she says. “I thought it was a vacation, but it was a life in a new home.” Maren hadn’t... View Details
- Portrait Project
Kevin Omwega
"I'm scared," I said, as we walked into our new home. The house had no lights, no furniture, no running water, nothing. My elder brother Eric, who had remained in Kenya when my parents pursued their education in the U.S., stood... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sue Yang
untold opportunity in a new country. It was the 1990s, and my parents had just emigrated from Shanghai, with me in tow. Shanghai had afforded them rare passage from poverty and illiteracy to higher education, and rarer still, to America.... View Details
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Ilene Lang
My parents raised me to set my sights high. But at age 11, a religious teacher said I could not be a leader because I was a girl. In my high school, only boys could run for senior class president so I had to settle for vice president. A... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
computer company back into an industry leader. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Finance and Business by Steven Rogers (MBA 1985) (McGraw-Hill) Rogers, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, provides practical insights about financing entrepreneurial ventures. The... View Details
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Radha Ruparell Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Building a world where all children can fulfill their potential Radha Ruparell 24 Aug 2017 When I was 12-years old, my... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
independently from their parent organizations. Even in ventures with comparable staffing levels and start dates, those that had separated from the core business were more innovative and had higher market-penetration rates than those that... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Making Lives Better
course. "I think every parent whose child is diagnosed with autism becomes an advocate to some extent," she says. "Everyone goes to the walks, but there are a handful of people who want to take their professional training and use their... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
their names, and there were kids who actually couldn’t. One child, who was almost four, kept saying his name was Corky, which it wasn’t. These are children who have been paid so little attention that they don’t even know their names.” Equally empowering are CHECC’s... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference across Borders
years were spent in Brazil where his parents owned and operated a grocery store that they started from a garage and built into a successful small business. After twenty years, the business was forced to close and Westphal’s View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A Day’s Pay
Times (June 3, 2010). “It’s kind of hard to take the farmworker out of the kid and the legislator when you come from farmworker stock and you see what your parents and grandparents have gone through.” As for the future, Florez said public... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- News
Focus on Fellowships
classmate Tony Sanchez. Gilbane, who works in his family's real estate business in Houston, Texas, named the fellowship he established in honor of his parents because of their commitment to education. "I know that tuition doesn't cover... View Details
Keywords: MBA Class of 2005
Morgan G. Bulkeley
In 1879, Bulkeley was elected the third president in the history of Aetna Life Insurance, a position he held until his death. Under Bulkeley’s leadership, Aetna’s assets grew from $25 million in 1879 to over $200 million in 1922, and the number of employees rose from... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
In Pursuit of Academia
During her time at HBS, Catarina Fernandes (MBA 2012, PhD 2019) and her husband Alberto Fernandes (MBA 2012) became parents to Vicente, 3, and Francisca, 4, who helped their mother accept her Doctoral Program diploma in May 2019. (photo... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Herman I. Safin
"but I had been away from my parents and family for such a long time. Going back was the best move I ever made." He credits his parents with giving him the freedom to pursue his own path in life. "Every day,... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
The Sky is Not the Limit Ruth Cenat (MBA 2015) plans to change America—one community at a time. “In disadvantaged areas,” Cenat says, “if local businesses thrive, the neighborhoods flourish. There is a stronger tax base, parents have... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
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Vysh Ravikumaran
evening. By the time I woke up in the morning, my dad was back – covered in injuries. The home was wreaked in havoc – our phone lines were ringing, and my parents barely noticed I had entered the kitchen. I want to live life with people I... View Details
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Janice Lin
nothing but a career and a bank account. Instead, I will see all the oceans and travel to each continent. I'll sit with penguins in Antarctica and play with pandas in China. I'll ride a motorcycle through the winding mountain roads — fast! I'll make my View Details
- 18 Feb 2021
- News
Jumping In, Fighting Bias
Photo via LinkedIn Photo via LinkedIn Growing up in suburban Chicago, Sumaiya Balbale (MBA 2009) and her Indian immigrant parents didn’t see many other Muslims. At school she was teased and bullied—an experience that no doubt shaped her... View Details