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- 11 Apr 2018
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
committed to fighting poverty, which comes, in part, from having grown up in a single-parent household in Worcester, Massachusetts, and experiencing firsthand “the sacrifices parents make to push the next generation forward.” Community... View Details
- 07 May 2016
- News
Retail in the Blood
As a boy, Simon Belsham (MBA 2007) hung out on the shop floor of Scally Wags Fun Factory, the toy shop his parents ran in the English town of Ashford. The shop closed with the arrival of Toys R Us, but “it gave me an insight into the... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
something completely different.” So Deza chose a third approach. She would merge the two schools and sell one of them. The plan was fraught with risks. One school was all-boys, and the other was all-girls. Her senior school administrators opposed the plan, fearful that... View Details
- Portrait Project
Tara Hagan
day. As the second-oldest child adopted into a multiracial family of nine in small-town Oklahoma, I almost didn’t go to college. We couldn’t afford it. Besides, I didn’t know anyone who had finished college. My parents pushed me to... View Details
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Susan Hamilton
professional and to be the kind of mother I want to be. I miss work to take my children to the doctor. I take client calls while at the playground. I want to send a message - parenting v. professionalism is not a zero-sum game. View Details
- Portrait Project
Matthew Naunheim
My parents gave me scars. The pale pink one on my left knee was from Dad, a surgeon, who meticulously sutured a puncture wound made when I fell on a rusty nail. The jagged arc on my forearm was from Mom, an emergency physician, who... View Details
- Portrait Project
Alok Sanghvi
in. I want to plot my course with someone I love. I am not sure that I've found her yet, but I think I'm getting close. I want to ask my parents for directions. The best map of my life is the one they continue to draw for me in dinner... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Hawes Hall Dedicated
students who will attend classes in Hawes Hall, the School's teaching mission will be greatly enhanced by the technology in the building, including videoconferencing, teleconferencing, Webcast, and broadcast capabilities. Hawes was filled with emotion as he recounted... View Details
- Portrait Project
Kelly Quinn
My dad taught me to play baseball. With a batting tee my parents bought, my sister and I created an infield in the front yard. Our towering elm trees stood as first and third base. My dad pitched to me on that homemade field countless... 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... View Details
- Portrait Project
Matt Simpson
than any Ivy League classroom ever could. Made me appreciate just how much my parents had done to give me this chance. That my father woke up at 4am for decades to put me in the position I was squandering. That mom and dad set the... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
market like a local. In this way, my parents exposed me to so many aspects of their lives while letting me shape my own perspective and identity. My mom is always telling me that because of what we have, “every day is extra.” She... View Details
- Profile
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
But she would not have it any other way. Born to entrepreneurial parents who ran a variety of businesses, the precocious Marcelo was curious at an early age about business processes and asked endless questions about the work environment.... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
of trusted appointees (known internally as the "Dutch Mafia"), whose understanding of Philips technology, commercial objectives, and overall strategy provided the major link between the parent company and its dispersed national... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
offers a look at where they are headed. The millennial generation is so large as to beg the question, are millennials a single cohort? There are millennial homeowners and millennial teenagers. Parents and the parented. What beliefs and... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
and days when you feel like you are invincible. On those rough days, try to take some time to decompress and to get some space from the business. I find that leaving and unplugging from technology for a few hours usually does the trick." What's it like working with... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
height of the civil rights movement, Thomas-Graham's parents held up Thurgood Marshall and other lawyers as role models who created peaceful change at a time when racial tensions were running high. "Our family heroes were African... View Details
- Portrait Project
Lea Carpenter
English author E.M. Forster wrote a mantra for the Moderns; it was this: "only connect." That formula—if we can bleed it both into our lives (our husbands our wives our sons our daughters our parents our friends our work) and... 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
- Portrait Project
Eric Justin
My parents love biographies, so as a homeschooled kid, I read many, many biographies of great people. I felt like the luckiest kid in the world that “school” meant hanging out on the couch with my mom reading together about Teddy... View Details