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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
hemophiliac, I knew I was different, but that was just normal life for me,” Massie recalls. “My family led a very romantic existence; we had a great time.” Yet as a child with a chronic illness (“the constant shadow,” he once wrote) that... View Details
- 20 May 2020
- News
Keeping Families Connected
call. “We could not live with ourselves if there was a child who couldn’t have a magical, memorable, experience with a grandparent because a parent had just lost their job and couldn’t pay the monthly fee,” explains Tuchman. “We’re a... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
Photography by Gary Laufman “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Umaimah Mendhro (MBA 2009) was visiting her native Pakistan, working for a microfinance education nonprofit, when she was tasked with photographing students in a... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
the concrete ceiling in corporate America." The nation's business community, he said, "continues to reserve the real positions of power for white males." Graves told his audience that their HBS education assured them of success but noted... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
and with Marietta’s support, recently completed her undergrad degree. Pine Mountain’s approach is holistic: In addition to offering more than a dozen environmental education courses for schoolchildren that integrate science, ecology, and... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
fascinating place. There is always something new to learn.” Paulson, the son of a child psychologist and a businessman, initially majored in philosophy. After his first year of college, however, he moved to Ecuador and started several... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
director at Summit Partners, says her connection to the contemporary art world began casually. The mother of four had taken a break from real estate development (Rouse & Associates, then AEW Capital Management) after the birth of her youngest View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Medical School. The son of immigrants from Central America, he grew up in a low-income community in Southern California, and both his older brothers had foregone higher education to get jobs and help... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
despite ongoing violence, in meeting the humanitarian needs of the people in Darfur and in other parts of Sudan, without security we cannot fully carry out our mission and our fundamental programs.” Those programs are low-cost, time-tested efforts to improve View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
acceptable is now completely unacceptable. For example, burning heretics is no longer considered a just punishment. Child marriage is not applauded as a family value. Many shifts in the right vs. wrong pendulum are affected by advances in... View Details
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
revolved around weekly piano and ballet lessons—and art. “I was the poster child for the value of early education in the visual arts,” she recalls. “I studied on South Michigan Avenue, across from the Art... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
little bit of help could make a big difference, and everybody just needs a chance.” Wu got his start in international aid work early. After getting his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth, he worked on development projects in Tanzania and with a center combating View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
So I felt it was important to serve as a role model of women who are driven to succeed in the same way that men are. It was quite a burden. In those early days, for example, I returned to teaching two weeks after my first child was born... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
paycheck,” says Thakor, author and founder of MoneyZen, a financial education consultancy. “The gender pay gap, in aggregate, has shifted 8 cents in 25 years, which is pathetic, and the wealth gap is even more extreme.” Women, on average,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
this job,” he says, “is being separated from my wife and children.” An only child born to a Serb father and Montenegrin mother, Djelic was raised in Belgrade and moved to Paris when he was 10. There, he says, “I made contact with French... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
becomes so successful that it provides jobs and desperately needed income to hundreds of women and families in her community. Inspired by Kamila and women like her, Lemmon wants to change the way the world views them. Her book is part of that effort. While no one would... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
Motown vice president and head of the label's $48 million catalog business, Bond is introducing the same Motown sound she enjoyed as a child to a new generation of listeners. "This music is such a big part of so many people's lives that I... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
of Children's Television Workshop in New York, which produces educational TV programs for children such as Sesame Street, is finding that using business strategy has been critical to the success of his nonprofit organization. "In an... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
they don't contribute. My support for young people cuts across a broad spectrum - from supporting a balanced budget amendment so we won't pass our debt on to them, to things more traditionally thought of as kids' issues: Head Start, education, View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Illustrated by Julie Kwon Little, Brown Books for Young Readers This children’s book by Cherie Fu is a pitch-perfect rhyming text about messiness that any child and parent can relate to, featuring a unique Chinese-American,... View Details