Age - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1997
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Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey

explains. "The reason I often choose young protagonists is because that's the age when we make our first major choices and begin to discover the connections that reach far beyond our own lives." Barron and his family live in Boulder,... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Apr 2000
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

interest on a regular basis. Continuing Education for Alumni Many graduates have asked for continuing education programs that are tailored to specific age groups and professional situations. This committee has made significant progress in... View Details

Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)

01 Jun 2000
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Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain

"I never intended to write a book," says Deborah A. Cohen (MBA '87). Nor did she expect to be diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 35. The author of Just Get Me Through This! The Practical Guide to Breast Cancer (Kensington... View Details

Keywords: Morgan Baker

01 Dec 2015
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In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)

Joss Kent’s (MBA 1997) first memories are of being on safari. “I remember the smoke rising from the fire to boil water,” says Kent. Safari was the family business: His grandparents and father founded luxury adventure-travel company Abercrombie & Kent in 1962. By View Details

Keywords: April White

13 Dec 2017
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Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?

the age of 30. And I'm really, really interested in the next generation—how they think about politics. I went to Tufts Undergrad, which of course my section mates there all know. And at Tufts, they've done some really fascinating... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

predicts that Dell’s innovation-driven comeback will be one for the ages and that more than half of Dell’s profits will soon come from product lines it didn't have five years ago. Faculty Books The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and... View Details

01 Apr 1997
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HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues

including the information age in Asia, venture capital in India, and joint ventures in China. Other conference highlights included the participation of Vietnam's Finance Minister Nguyen Sing Hung, Taiwan's Minister of State Ma Ying-jeou,... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

Let's take it in two buckets. One, the companies. I have even more profound respect for technology and innovation now. You know, I just think we live in such a golden age of innovation. And even though I was an advocate when I was at GE,... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!

objective was to demonstrate that we could change a company by innovating a traditional product. We’ve done that, with workers who have an average age of 55. Jeannette is not really a company, it’s a different way of thinking.” It’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

their country’s future. A good measure of that faith is based on the energy of India’s people. With 500 million citizens under the age of 25, India has the youngest population in the world — and the potential to create a powerful engine... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

02 Aug 2018
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Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

whether it's smoking or alcohol or drugs. Back in the '80s, we had the war on drugs, and anyone who's of a certain age can remember the slogan, "Just say no." And there was also this ad from 1987. "OK, last time. This is drugs. This is... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job

in manufacturing,” says Eckert. A 2015 report by Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute found that 2 million of the nearly 3.5 million anticipated open manufacturing jobs in the United States in the next decade will go unfilled. Europe has a similar problem, with... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

21 Mar 2025
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What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”

always said, “Why would I retire? Everything I’m doing in my job, I’d be doing anyway.” And I truly believe that at the age of 85, he would wake up at 6 a.m., and the first thing he would do is go to his Bloomberg terminal and pull open... View Details

Keywords: Finance

28 Feb 2025
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Joy to the World

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more homes than he can remember,... View Details

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

growing the initiative’s malaria treatment program and traveling widely on the continent. “I was often, say, the only half-American, half-Japanese, non-African person of my age in a room talking to counterparts to try to get something... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

motives, such as ending research that might pinpoint responsibility and, most threateningly, liability for this man-made epidemic. Europe and the End of the Age of Innocence by Francesco M. Bongiovanni (MBA 1980) Palgrave Macmillan... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

step-by-step framework for letting go of shame; and how just two minutes can make every day intentional. Fortitude: The Story of My Ancestors by Charles Rentschler (MBA 1964) Authorhouse This is the story of Rentschler’s grandfather, George Adam Rentschler, a German... View Details

29 Apr 2016
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The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)

it. My preferred artistic medium is music—I played the piano and violin and sang competitively from age five through high school. I don’t have as much time for it anymore, but, growing up, it helped me to relax, to engage with and develop... View Details

03 Feb 2021
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Power Play

distributor, to fund large-scale battery storage and solar power in New York City as it works to reduce fossil-fuel pollution, upgrade aging infrastructure and systems, and move its electric grid to between 70 percent and 80 percent... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

25 Jun 2018
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An Unfinished Story

In 1961, at the age of eight, Elaine Chao (MBA 1979) traveled to the United States from Taiwan with her mother and two sisters aboard a cargo ship. It was a harrowing 37-day journey to reunite with her father, who had come to the country... View Details