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- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
game that taught kids how to be entrepreneurs. A would-be bakery owner, for instance, could work through the necessary steps of calculating costs and doing market research on the way to selling chocolate-covered pretzels for a profit....
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- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
however, Bob suffered an injury that changed him from an athletic, outgoing personality to more of an introvert. BW: A key thing in my whole life was that I had a severe concussion when I was 14. We had four or five kids on each side of a...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
business: Venture Kits, an educational game that taught kids how to be entrepreneurs. A would-be bakery owner, for instance, could work through the necessary steps of calculating costs and doing market research on the way to selling...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
a player at the beginning of his career, is another surprising success story. Here’s someone who looks like the kid from next door who mows your lawn, and he played like a veteran in a pivotal position under the toughest pressure in...
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- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
horror has taken an enormous toll. My son has only sixteen kids in his pre-K class. Two of them are now fatherless. In one street, just a few blocks away, there are four missing people." Also in New York, Nan J. Morrison (MBA '87)...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
estimate at anywhere between $3 to $5 billion - has been quite a ride for the kid with blue-collar roots who was one of only a handful of students from his Medford, Massachusetts, high school class to make it to college. Given his...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
kids being kids, he often had to negotiate peace on the field. “I had to keep people from fighting,” he says, “because I couldn’t fight everyone.” Eamer is also even-keeled, a quality that is perhaps equal parts nature and nurture. While...
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Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
help their families cope. “Even rituals that may seem annoying or kids complain about and ask why they have to do them are centering for families,” Norton says. “People need the familiar things that bond them even more during this...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
or I was going to fall into the water. And finally, I looked behind me 40 minutes later, and these two news guys are running in with cameras above their shoulders and they're like, the kid says he found cocaine, and everything, like, give...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
consumers shop around, gets him visibly agitated. "Practically speaking, we can't even move an MRI from one guy to the next, and both have electronic medical records—are you kidding me?" (His reputation precedes him: "I've been very, very...
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- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
programs or urban life, opened a highly successful gym for inner-city kids at risk; he refused to be daunted by his lack of expertise and decided to simply "go for it." As these and other examples from the authors' research...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
investment office and staying in Boston area Little one’s favorites: Cars, Cars and Cars. Anything with cars on it. What has been the best part of being a mom at HBS? I love how my boys are able to hang out with other kids from other HBS...
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- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
about what happened. I remember in 2010, I was on my way to a school called the Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. I was driving there from Savannah, Georgia, and I got to St. Louis. And I stopped for dinner. My wife and View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
the sake of your enjoyment. But what we all know is when we give a gift, the giver feels amazing as well. It feels much more like a family. You don't keep track of how many peanut butter sandwiches you've made for your kids over their...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
the twelfth grade,” recalls Eustis. “He was a real tough, volatile type of guy. He played football. He was later rumored to be the smartest kid ever to graduate from our high school.” During those same years, McArthur worked part-time in...
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- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
dad or single mom who’s got to pick up their kid from soccer practice on Friday afternoon. If all of a sudden being part of the Cloudflare team requires you to come out drinking with us, they’re not going to think that that’s a very...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
as a child and worked at the Museum of Natural History for a year before applying to HBS. “We have to decide on the most user-friendly method of con-veying exhibit information to, say, a parent with three small kids and no spare hands. We...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
now if K-12 education performance doesn’t substantially improve?” The consequences of each year sending tens of thousands of unprepared kids into a harshly competitive world are already clear. They include rising social safety net...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
reason why what we’re doing here is so important is because I really want my kids to live in a Sri Lanka that’s better than the Sri Lanka that I live in today or the one I grew up in. “Nayana said it with such intensity and authenticity...
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