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- 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
- 20 May 2020
- News
Keeping Families Connected
like Mattel, Baby Einstein, and Sesame Street, as well as up-and-coming indie authors that expose children to new cultures, characters, and stories. Caribu also builds its own content. For example, users can visit a museum together... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
Visiting Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Tanzania, he was struck by a Tanzanian school official's comment that the food children receive at school is sometimes the only real meal they eat in a day. “The Christian Council only had enough money for... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
beauty, or perfection, that just creates a sense of wonder and awe,” she says. “Not all the time, but once in a while, I could feel that. I could touch it.” Today, Sharma recognizes how a self-fulfilling prophecy held back many children... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
that women and children would be hurt in traffic by exiting from the left side. Lara, then a manager of product strategy for Chrysler and the mother of an infant daughter, spoke up. “First of all, we park in parking lots, not traffic.... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
with me. After a decade of running Aragon, I’m using the same approaches I use in choosing investments to identify the most effective curriculum for the children in our program, while being mindful of the budgetary constraints of public... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
to have higher academic achievement and experience greater acceptance by their peers in adolescence. Despite this positive influence on educational outcomes, it is still unclear why some children are more prosocial than others in school.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
Louis, Illinois, “one of the most impoverished cities in the country, where the children have been neglected for far too long.” A People-Intensive Business One HBS graduate with broad experience in both the practical and the research... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Happy Campers: HBS Student Auction Helps Local Kids
At a "Christmas in July" auction held last summer, the January Cohort of the Class of 2001 raised just over $15,000 to benefit the Cambridge Camping Association (CCA), a 106-year-old organization dedicated to helping low-income, minority, and at-risk 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
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
with local public and private schools, enabling students to volunteer at All Souls on a regular basis. Young school children set tables and make centerpieces while older ones prepare food and wait on guests. "Students come away from the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors
commercial, financial, and cultural center. There are also a variety of pre- and post-forum tours that make this a unique opportunity. In order to make this forum truly a family affair, children of participants have the opportunity to... View Details
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
By 1998, Pilar Deza (OPM 30, 2001) had weathered several storms on her way to becoming a leading education entrepreneur in Peru. Deza had gone from founding a nursery school in her garage with four neighborhood children to operating two... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Together Again
building green businesses to winning in emerging markets to rethinking business education. For many, the reunion was a family affair, with children and grandchildren participating in a variety of activities tailored to their interests. To... View Details
Keywords: reunion
- Portrait Project
Josh Latson
Some children are afraid of the dark, or spiders, or broccoli. I was always afraid of not being remembered – that one day I'd be gone from this earth before anybody could notice. Even when I thought of how I would like to be remembered, I... View Details
- Portrait Project
David Malinas
difference? I plan to be a devoted husband and father who will do his best to instill values into his family, hoping that his children can have an even greater impact in the world. I plan to run for public office with the desire to... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ben Schumacher
immigrants and their families through our business, and I came to understand that life's true purpose is enabling others. When I was 25, I realized that, in this country, not every man becomes the man he should be. I found that we systematically disadvantage our... View Details
- 26 Oct 2015
- News
Sal Khan Goes Back to School
The revolution started several years ago with Khan Academy, an innovative online portal of educational videos and tutorials that has attracted millions of followers and showed educators a thing or two about the way today’s children learn.... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Taking up the issue of climate change
countries of the world to somehow reduce the emission of greenhouse gasses," says Horn, whose two daughters are also environmental activists. "We want to leave a world to our children that is in balance and that is sustainable for... View Details