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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
business information in countries across the continent. Nkontchou (pronounced en-CON-choo) was born in Cameroon and moved to Paris with his diplomat parents when he was 13. Of his decision to earn an MBA from HBS, he told USA Today... View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
A Lifelong Friendship: From Classmates in Cameroon to Roommates at HBS
What's your story? Gana: I grew up in Cameroon, in a town called Douala. My grandfather made the importance of education and how it impacts your life front and center. I grew up with my parents working, my dad in the petroleum industry,... View Details
- Career Coach
Courtney Fairbrother
Courtney (Washington and Lee ’11) is the Associate Director for HBS’s Business and Environment Initiative as well as the Sustainability Sector Lead for the Career and Professional Development office. In these roles, she manages student and alumni engagement and creates... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
consistent brand message. In the United States, BMW is a relatively new brand, some thirty or forty years old in terms of its American presence. Yuppies who bought BMWs in the 1980s now have kids, but kids are never going to buy the car their View Details
- Profile
Ruth Cenat
others know that anything is possible no matter your background. My parents emigrated from Haiti, and my father worked as a cab driver to provide us with better opportunities. When I was young, my parents... View Details
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
was growing up, my parents often talked to me about the importance of working hard and becoming successful. "You should go into a profession," they would say. "Doctor, dentist, lawyer are all good professions. Orthodontists... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
including Cox, Times Mirror, and Newhouse, had corporate parents that owned both newspapers and broadcasting properties. Another thirteen were owned by parents that owned TV and/or radio stations, but no... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
And so I think this, this willingness to connect or be a connector is something you kind of learn innately as you're growing up. DM: Yeah. And I want to talk to you more about that, Jeff. Because, you talk in the book about all that your View Details
- Portrait Project
Monica Lee
five-hour dinner parties discussing the meaning of life with friends, of trips to exotic locales with my parents and sister, of lazy Sunday mornings cuddling in bed with my husband, of ridiculously disastrous trips with my wonderfully... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jayon Wang
ran out of cash to pay our employees. The real world had gotten the last laugh. For one more time, I closed our doors behind me and left my dreams behind in that empty office. And yet, day by day, the willingness to find joy in failure has brought me back, ready for my... View Details
- Portrait Project
Edrienne Brandon
hold the most honorable leadership position imaginable – parent – and will define my legacy by the kind of citizens, friends, and thinkers Wesley's and my children become. I will be that friend that is there when I am needed as much as... View Details
- 17 Sep 2021
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
When Xiao Wang (MBA 2014) and his parents immigrated to the United States from China three decades ago, the process was a difficult and expensive one. The family spent the equivalent of five months’ rent on an immigration attorney to... View Details
- Portrait Project
Yaw Agyenim-Boateng
One of my mentors put it this way: Humanity is counting not only on us but on those who we help to thrive and blossom in our wake. Deep? Very. Dramatic? Maybe. But I agree, because that's how I got here. My parents grew up as farmers in... View Details
- Portrait Project
Vatsala Deora
every day, failed more times than I can remember. My parents told me to focus on the brighter children, maximize their chances at success. My friends were convinced that he was nothing more than a disruption. Other teachers pushed me to... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Shoshanah Cohen (MBA '92)
from work are all about my family,” said Cohen — she and her husband, Collin Cohen (MBA '90), are parents to Meredith (3) and Riley (1 ½). “But there's a hobby I picked up at HBS that I still make time for: ice hockey.” Reunion Roundup... View Details
- Career Coach
Betsy Edwards
Betsy (HGSE, '12) is a Corporate Relations Director in HBS Career & Professional Development with over ten years of coaching experience. Her focus is on supporting students and alumni seeking an impact-oriented career primarily in the health care, energy and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Valerie Bockstette
I plan to build trampolines. Remember jumping on one as a kid - the more you jumped, the more support you got - and like magic - you rose higher and higher, as though you could bounce forever? I grew up on such a trampoline. No, my family wasn't in the circus. I had... View Details
- Portrait Project
Kate Aitken
it. My mother's grandparents, survivors of the Armenian Genocide, came to America through Ellis Island as refugees. My father, the son of a Scottish bricklayer, came to pursue better work. Both of my parents were first in their families... View Details
- Portrait Project
Avni Patel
one word gives me the courage to hurl myself out into the world every day, in the efforts to make a difference. A difference that my parents would be proud of. Because, you see, audacious is a state that I can be, simply and only because... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Joella Lykouretzos, MBA 2001
Now serving as Hoplite’s managing director and chief administrative officer, the busy New Yorker rounds out her professional and parenting resumes with philanthropic and advisory roles at institutions such as the American Museum of... View Details