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- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
Alumni How to Deploy the Case Method to Raise Confident Kids When Anne Jones (MBA 1997) was in her first year at HBS, she says she often worried that she didn’t belong there. “I was thinking, ‘how am I here?’ but it was the case method... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
that problem, and all I found were innovations in textbooks or classroom management; people were bringing radical efficiencies to a failed model. Then I met Avi, who had taught himself how to code as a kid and had an amazing career... View Details
- 02 Jul 2024
- Book
Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead
own load on your journey and cover more ground more quickly or with less effort. I built connections with other kids on my football team based on what they needed in order to be on board—some of them I knew I had to be tough with, while... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’
to educate leaders. After all, actual Chinese leaders send their kids to American universities, and in increasing numbers. But it is worth recalling that in the 1920s and 1930s, China's paramount leader, Chiang Kai-shek, sent his sons to... View Details
- 16 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Is MySpace.com Your Space?
the profile page of a MySpace member, turning the winner into the most popular kid on the block. Unilever, Pepsi, and many of the national advertisers that Google aspires to serve are playing with it. Q: What do you think of MySpace as an... View Details
- 08 May 2022
- Blog Post
The Territory of Motherhood: A Reflection in Honor of Mother’s Day
bliss and joy, and while they still were, they were also clouded with heavy emotions and loud thoughts: worrying about a sick child, comparing two kids and their abilities to meet milestones, having unrealistic expectations, juggling... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
little kid I just loved them, they were one of my favorite things. And I grew up in the ‘80s and I heard a lot of people say terrible things about Brussels sprouts, so I hated that. I didn’t like people talking badly about Brussels... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
on to the next new idea or product or opportunity within the organization. I was at back-to-school night for my first grader a little while ago. The teacher said that they’re trying to encourage the kids not to fear failure by having a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
Broadcasting shortly afterward, however, Dodi's division was dissolved. Still under contract, she found herself with eight months of paid "vacation." "The time off helped me get the kids settled into a new culture," she says. In August... View Details
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A Eureka Moment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
through entertaining, interactive videos. “Young children are naturally curious and want to learn how their world works, but all too often they become discouraged and lose interest early on,” says Bucala, who serves as the organization’s CEO. “Our goal with Eureka Ed... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
strengthened the charter public school laws, provided funding for facilities, and lowered to 55 percent the threshold required to pass a local school bond. The net result is that over ten years, a million kids can graduate from new,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
their wings; they circle the world and spend months at sea. Why did you sail this race? I started sailing in Marblehead, Massachusetts, as a kid and have always loved it. I’m severely asthmatic, on four medications a day, so the clean air... View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
George Halverson, the CEO of Kaiser Permanente. In making the argument for flat-fee reimbursement (which his company employs), Halverson notes that even though there is an affordable sealant that is almost 100 percent effective in protecting children's teeth against... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
National Science Foundation grant to implement an ambitious inquiry-based science curriculum.” Highest and Best Use With that synergy as a starting point, since 2009, Thompson Island’s Connections program and the science department of Boston Public Schools have... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
around in the fridge, he cocks an ear toward the snippets of TV news in the background: “Labor unrest...Organized crime...Protesting pensioners.” Welcome to Belgrade and the legacy of Milosevic. Now meet the man who wants to change all that — Bozidar Djelic (MBA/MPA... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
become one of the first female executives at Sports Illustrated in 1983. She had acquired a passion for sports from her father and "had been a Sports Illustrated fan for years and really enjoyed the magazine," she recalls. Moore founded Sports Illustrated for View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
university storage facility, benefits from student energy. They buzz about the expansive lab space, which is stocked with 3D printers, circuit board builders, and a wall full of electronic parts and wires. Two other sections of the facility offer access to heavy... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
by this terrible disease. Your total physical manifestation is affected by this. You lose the ability to walk. You lose the ability to move your hands, to pick things up, to feed yourself. You know, imagine that. Imagine a little kid... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
without reading it, which I thought was the homework assignment, and I did not want to get my homework wrong. It was simple as that. And so I got to class on the day that we were supposed to turn it in, and I watched all these kids walk... View Details
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
Only difference: Piskorski has spent years studying users of online social networks (SN) and has developed surprising findings about the needs that they fulfill, how men and women use these services differently, and how Twitter—the newest View Details