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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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Partners & Families | MBA
partners@studentclubs.hbs.edu to reach out. Crimson Parents Club The Crimson Parents Club helps families make the transition to HBS by addressing the unique needs of the student parent, their partner, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Origin Story: Mary Chen (MBA 2026)
Address label: Born outside Cleveland, Ohio, Chen grew up in California and Texas before attending Emory University in Georgia, where she majored in business. “My three siblings live in New York now, and I’ll be working there this summer, so that feels closest to... View Details
- 20 Aug 2016
- News
The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery
Josue Zapata (MD/MBA 2012) is chief resident in internal medicine at the University of California in San Francisco. In this interview he discusses how he is utilizing his business training to make a difference in patient treatment and health care delivery. “My View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
striving for an out-of-reach goal. This can be difficult for parents to do. So much of our society’s culture is focused on trying to build self-esteem in children by never letting them lose a game, giving them accolades simply for trying... View Details
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
psychologist Diana Baumrind on parenting styles. Her research highlights four parenting "prototypes" oriented along two dimensions: the level of direction parents... View Details
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
legally enforceable agreements only with specific legal entities. Using a sample of bank loans issued to U.S. parent companies, I find that a more complex corporate legal structure is associated with higher loan spreads. The findings are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
Children learning remotely often have to rely on parents or a sibling for help. The pandemic has caused the largest disruption of education systems in history, affecting more than one billion learners in more than 190 countries, according... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
liquid, the observation refers to her involvement in, first, the 1993 launch of ViaCord, a company that enabled parents to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood as a source of stem cells that help treat life-threatening diseases like... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Brief: Bargaining for Better
see their interactions with others in ways they could not before, and provided them with a set of skills to change those interactions. The training mimicked real-life situations, such as negotiating with parents or siblings over household... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
immigrants’ location decision by interacting pre-existing ethnic settlements with aggregate migration flows, we find that immigration raised marriage rates, the probability of having children, and the propensity to leave the parental... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Opportunity Abounds
walking and has about five words. Bragging parent alert: he actually started walking at eight months, so we’ve been relatively busy! Devan has become so active in the Crimson Parents Club that next year, we... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
the typical school admits students at age five, The Primary School enrolls students as close to birth as possible. “We know the majority of brain development happens in the first few years of life,” Liu explains. In the future, she hopes to begin providing View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
to interview Howard. When the candidate arrived, the search committee immediately understood that this was not a test. In addition to his stellar résumé, Howard brought an unexpected quality: charisma. He could relate to everyone they introduced him to—from students,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 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
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
The Power of Civility
It's a very self-centered world these days, and that does worry me about our future as a civilization. “One of the things that my parents taught me when I was a kid was that we need to take responsibility for our own actions, and we can't... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
Mexico City revealed significant cultural differences. “Colgate wanted to better understand teens’ values and opinions,” says Franklin. “One question we asked involved heroes. Almost all said their parents were their heroes because they... View Details
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Olivia vonNieda
I’ve lived the life people dream of for their children. I grew up in the town of Paradise, PA to parents who were brought up into stable, privileged homes. The name of my hometown accurately describes my idyllic childhood – full of love... View Details