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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
Illustration by Lu Zhang Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) grew up feasting on the stories her parents told about how they met and what it was like for them to leave China to start a new life in the United States. These narratives were central to... 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
- Alumni WDYDWYD
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
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Mary Dell Harrington
In January 2012, I co-founded a blog, Grown and Flown: Parenting from the Empty Nest, jumping into the deep end of social media. Though on Facebook, I had everything to learn about blogging, twitter, Pinterest, SEO, and an alphabet soup... View Details
- Portrait Project
Keyne Monson
Although the tables seemingly are reversed, with the child asking the parent a variant of this age-old question, it is a tremendous lesson to me about the need to seek after knowledge and learning at all stages of life. Professional... View Details
- Portrait Project
Anita Lynch
I am not graceful or coordinated, but dancing allows my soul to transcend. To dance is to rise above obstacles and stretch beyond my reality. To dream. To take risks. To seek change. I grew up with my mom as a single parent so after... View Details
- Portrait Project
Alexander Kamenskov
announcement in the news. Perestroika was proclaimed when I was born. Seven years of change, and my nation was still at a crossroads, yet again in civil unrest. On that day, shooting stopped. I was walking in the street with my parents... View Details
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Judy D'Agostino
political persecution and chased freedom, liberty, life. My parents exemplified the archetypal immigrant dream: middle-class Americana.But I was often reminded that I wasn’t really American, despite my birthright. My ‘code-switch’ was a... View Details
- Portrait Project
CiCi Barrett
in the lab was chipping away at who I was. Such an obsessive life left no room for joy or love. I was determined, but I felt bitter, stressed, and alone. I knew this wasn’t the life my parents wanted for me. It wasn’t the life I wanted... View Details
- 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
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
father would make us read through the annual reports of companies he had invested in, but that was an early influence: realizing I had an education and holidays because my parents complemented their income by investing in the Nigerian... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
scale back on travel and her hectic work schedule after coming back from parental leave. They responded by changing her job to one that did not require travel. "It was the worst job of my career," she said. "I hated that... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 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 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
Photographed by Susan Young; edited by Dan Morrell See full profiles and more photographs here. Claudio Haddad (OPM 12, 1987) Chairman, Insper Institute of Education and Research My parents were both teachers. They always told us that... View Details
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Debbie Rosenbaum
old. (My parents like to joke that I have not stopped since then.) Couple my Hispanic culture with my Jewish background, and one better understands that for me, communication is about more than just words. It is interactive and dynamic,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
more time with stay-at-home parents or grandparents. I missed out on a lot of those lessons on my way to adulthood, and when I started doing research for the book, I discovered a world of people who felt the same way. How did you decide... View Details
- 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
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
supply chain complexity and an inflationary environment?” For Sundy, it’s an exciting challenge he calls his “MBA 2.0.” Heigh-ho: “My mom was a teacher in the Detroit public schools and my dad was a barber. My parents would be up at the... View Details
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Sahar Meghani
be OK. I want to have faith. I want to feel excited about the future. I want to start living my life like she and I would talk about. I want to make my parents proud, like we always said we would. I want to start that company, like we... View Details