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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Business Plan Contest
which took the top prize in the social enterprise track, seeks to eliminate functional illiteracy in India by enabling poor children to stay in school for several years beyond the fifth grade â¹ a time when many drop out to help support... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
to that '60s idealism. If coaxed, Wiley, whose children Pratt and B.J. are now 21 and 19, will admit she has become a role model for many of the young women she meets in her work, who look to her for guidance not only in making a mark in... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 16 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Seeing Everyday as a New Adventure: Reflections for Father's Day
remember taking a class with my dad at the tech center in my small hometown. When I picked up tennis in middle school, he started playing as well. I am trying to follow this pattern with my own children and am loving developing new... View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
American child at the time of birth. “At historical rates of equity returns of 8 percent annually, a $6,750 at-birth retirement account—which would cost the government $26 billion a year based on the average number of children born in the... View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- News
Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources
about. “In 2003, my family moved to Boston. My children were in middle school and I felt that they weren’t getting the kind of experiential learning I had had as a child. Where could my kids go during the summer, or after school, so... View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
Harvard community in Istanbul and gather a group to describe how this disaster has impacted the most vulnerable, especially the estimated 1,000 children in Turkey left orphaned by the earthquakes. "Our purpose was to raise awareness and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
into a book, How Will You Measure Your Life? The following excerpt, adapted for the Bulletin by Allworth, presents a fresh look at what it means to have “the right stuff” at work and draws a parallel to good parenting. Helping your View Details
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For Guests | Commencement 2025
bell). Bookstore & ATM The Coop (and an ATM) are located on basement floor of Spangler Center. Children Harvard Yard Ceremony For events that require tickets (morning ceremonies in Harvard Yard), only infants and small toddlers who will... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
Telecom 1992 Launches Bharti Cellular 1999 Completes OPM Program 2002 Bharti Airtel lists on Indian bourses through IPO 2004 Airtel becomes India’s largest mobile operator 2006 Launches Satya Bharti School Program to educate India’s rural underprivileged View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Portrait Project
Yael Melamed
want to inspire and be inspired, love and be loved. I want to get married, have children and give them everything. I want to be a rockstar. Most of all, I never want to forget the lessons I have been fortunate enough to learn. View Details
- Portrait Project
Mathew Turner
will teach children the joys of reading and the excitement of math tricks... all the while, trying to spark hope. I will stay true to my entrepreneurial spirit. And when I have the idea, I will act on it. Finally, I will lead as Dr.... View Details
- Portrait Project
Michael Murphy
most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well." I want to teach my children (the first arriving this June!) that a life lived in the spirit of... View Details
- Portrait Project
Monica Gupta Adractas
received as the first-generation daughter of Indian immigrants. The jobs, life-improving consumer products, and educational opportunities I produce should enable others to do even more. Suppose I create twelve jobs, and one employs a loving father, who can finally send... View Details
- Portrait Project
David Reinke
I plan to continue to laugh and play with my beautiful Michele, the woman with the blue eyes and the crazy curly brown hair, the girl I have loved since before I knew her. I plan to have lots and lots of children – well, at least two – to... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
world’s largest faith-based micro-finance organization, before starting Edify. To date, Edify has served 3,000 children in countries such as Rwanda, Peru, Ghana, Liberia, and the Dominican Republic. “I see mothers labor in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Waxing Philosophical
As he turned over company operations to his children last winter, it was a time for reflection for Samuel Johnson (MBA ’52), chairman emeritus of SC Johnson, one of the country’s oldest and largest family-owned firms, with $9 billion in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Child’s Play
Tak: Apps for childhood development. The Over in the Meadow Animated Storybook is an interactive, animated, and educational product, the first to be rolled out by a start-up called iMomConnect. It’s designed to help busy parents teach young View Details
- Portrait Project
Ann Chao
orphan who had almost become my little sister. Her name was Chun Yu. I met Chun Yu at a foster home for blind children in China. She had been abandoned as an infant and neglected for years at a state institution before moving to the... View Details
- 30 Jun 2016
- News
Sal Khan Takes Innovation Offline
multiple languages on subjects ranging from trigonometry to grammar to organic chemistry. In addition to its recent partnership with the College Board to offer free SAT test prep, the organization also educates students at its bricks-and-mortar outpost, the Khan Lab... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Changing Old Systems to Provide New Chances for Young Americans
fact that we have 4.4 million young people who are disconnected from any mainstream activity?” he asks. “So we think a lot about policy, think about what systems—educational, health care, adjudication—why aren’t those systems working for millions of Americans who... View Details