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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Matters
their families. “That meant everything,” she says. At the time she began her classes at HBS, Thompson-Woode had a one-year-old daughter and was helping her parents through financial difficulties as she had been doing since high school.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- Career Coach
Oscar Mak
Oscar is currently a Senior Director at NORD/LB, a leading bank in financing renewable energy and infrastructure projects. He previously led strategic investments (e.g., M&A, corporate VC, joint ventures) in North America for Toyota Tsusho, a diversified trading... View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
living in that complex, it’s an overwhelming success,” he says. His big break: “I won the lucky parent lottery and ended up in the right house, with the right father and the right mother. They created a safe place in a neighborhood that... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
Andreas Jaegle
In Eichstätt, the small Bavarian town where Andreas Jaegle grew up, the Jäegle family managed a fleet of more than 180 buses, a family-owned business they had run for more than 100 years. “But I wasn’t under any pressure to run it myself,” Andreas says. “Instead, my... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
2017 The Skills Gap Program (“SGP”), now in its fifth year at the Harvard Business School Club of New ... Building a world where all children can fulfill their potential Radha Ruparell 24 Aug 2017 When I was 12-years old, my parents took... View Details
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Archiving Your Research Files - Research Computing Services
researchgrid$ To see how much data (in kilobytes) is in each directory: researchgrid$ du -sk * 12976 AcmeCase 340093 airlineDat 880144 bank_proj The listing above shows that the directories contain about 13, 340 and 880 megabytes, respectively. From the View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
IN HIS ELEMENT: Peter Thayer has spotted nearly 3,500 species of birds...and counting. Peter Thayer (MBA ’73) didn’t recognize the little bird hopping about in his backyard outside Cincinnati. His parents had given him a field guide for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Author: Thomas H. Fischgrund (MBA ’80)
want to use their skills to have an impact on the world. Ninety percent plan to go to graduate school. How did you score on the SAT? I took the test in 1966 and scored in the 1300s. What’s your next book? I’m interviewing the parents of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
and social justice in the conduct of capitalism. When Massie was an infant, his youthful parents received a stunning diagnosis: Their lively firstborn was a hemophiliac. The family's life in New York's Westchester County became dominated... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jackie Bernhelm
strawberry season, and she had to stay at home to watch her little siblings while her parents worked in the fields. She started to miss school a lot. Like how it's hard to tell exactly when one season becomes the next, I don't know when... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
(Zoonar RF/Thinkstock; iStock) Sweet Kiddles is a new concept in center-based childcare. Unlike traditional centers where parents must commit to fixed full- or part-time schedules, Sweet Kiddles’ flexible scheduling allows families to use... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her... View Details
- Profile
Kayode Ogunro
"The chapter that struck me was on VCPE in emerging markets," says Kayode. "I realized that this was the way to bridge the gap between small-scale angel investing and large-scale equity markets." Kayode, whose parents... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
diarrhea, so it's hard for parents to tell whether it's working. The ORT solution tastes awful, like salty metal, so many children refuse to drink it. And pharmacists tend not to suggest ORT to mothers because they don't consider it to be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Tribute to Fellowships
uninhabitable ruin. Her immediate urge was to leave HBS to help her parents put their lives, and their home, back together. They balked at the idea, insisting that they would be fine without her. Nearly two years later, Thompson recounted... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
deeper medical research — could change as much as attitudes about smoking? Guesstimates as to the value of the sports business range into the hundreds of billions of dollars — could that juggernaut be affected simply by parents refusing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
equity. Firmly established in the business world, in the late 1980s, Tierney set out to find a way to fight poverty in Latin America and Africa. “I had been involved in various efforts since my Peace Corps days, but I knew it was time to get serious,” explains Tierney,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Aug 2025
- News
Overturning Convictions
Muriel Wilkins (MBA 1997) doesn’t want to change your mind. She wants you to do it yourself. The idea that lasting change needs to come from within is one of the many lessons she’s learned in more than 20 years as an executive coach. In her new book, Leadership... View Details
Keywords: Michelle Cassidy
- 27 May 2020
- Blog Post
Creating Unity and Belonging through Food and Dance: ‘EKTA’ at HBS
family and I was alone in my dorm room missing my mom’s dahi vada and the rangoli I used to create with my sister Pallavi. So, I decided to set up my own little puja in my room and as I chanted the prayers, I felt like a part of me was back. Donning the new salwar... View Details