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- 30 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Searching for Professional Passion Through My VC Summer Internship
As a child in the sun-bathed cityscape of West Los Angeles, I grew up amongst the gifts of a loving family, supportive schools, and a tranquil middle-class neighborhood. From L.A., I found my way to UC Berkeley and then to San Francisco,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
ages 11 and 17, Doerr puts family as his top priority. Growing up in a tight-knit middle-class family in St. Louis, John Doerr was influenced by his entrepreneurial father. “My parents worked hard to give all five of their children... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
and in government, to rapidly rising incomes and tax revenues. We haven't had that for twenty years, and now blue-collar and middle-class people sense those days may be gone forever. You state that high wages are a key component of a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
transplant, or a joint replacement in the United States, here's the key to getting the very best medical care: be a straight, white, middle-class male. White, a pioneering black surgeon, and his coauthor make sense of the unconscious bias... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
in his middle-class New Jersey family to attend college, Crane remembers the lessons and friendships as having lifelong impact. “The professors were like watching great conductors of an orchestra,” he says, recalling classes with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Affluent in China and India by Michael J. Silverstein (MBA 1980), Abheek Singhi, Carol Liao, and David Michael (Harvard Business Review Press) Silverstein and his BCG colleagues in China and India provide the first comprehensive profile of the emerging View Details
- Profile
Michael R. Bloomberg
customers, the lifeblood of startups.” This is heady stuff for a middle-class kid from Medford, Mass. who believed deeply in the hard work required to get anywhere in the world. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
could finally afford to buy their domiciles. The definition of home shifted. A home became an anchor, a stake in the community. Veterans from World War II seized upon the FHA and VA mortgages to sink roots into the middle class; one hallmark of View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
in Hollywood, it began to seem like a possibility that a middle-class kid from Toronto could have a career out here.” Dick performed in the Hasty Pudding theatricals as an undergraduate at Harvard and co-wrote the script for the HBS show... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
offering a quality product to those people.” The Steinbridge experiment is already underway in Philadelphia—what Davis calls “the perfect prototype.” In Pennsylvania, houses cannot be purchased in bulk, and Philadelphia is a major city with large View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
change? Congress has already passed a piece of legislation that is tremendously important to the consumer-driven movement. Health savings accounts, established as part of the Medicare prescription drug bill in 2003, will allow the View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
to drive a cheaper car, or insulate their house and be a little more energy efficient,” says Minnick. At the same time, however, the plan would use the extra revenues generated from the carbon fee to issue a tax credit to middle-class... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
impact of business and government on society. After graduating from Stanford University in 1971 in the midst of demonstrations against the Vietnam War, she took a freighter to Peru to work for a government agency there that was constructing View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
(GDP)." I agree completely. This country has to take some steps as soon as possible to stop the growth of deferred liabilities. I think some serious, material, and binding actions are needed to begin containing the continued growth of View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
including one centered on the acceptance of high-speed Internet cable access by residents of a middle-class Toronto suburb during the past four years. That community, they say, is typical of many throughout the United States. To date,... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
attractive to more people. Increasingly long hours on the job are a fact of American working life. Since 1979, the average workweek in the US has increased 9 percent. This has occurred disproportionately among so-called middle-class wage... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
Right? Like treat people with respect. Fair is fair. You can fix it. You know, my parents were always like, you know, complaining is for losers. You can fix it. You know? So all of those things. It was a classic middle-class background.... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
interest of privacy, I have used pseudonyms for the participants.) Williams, an African-American, was born and raised in a middle-class neighborhood in Washington, DC. After earning his bachelor's degree at one of the nation's leading... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
that trouble was coming, just as the fact that in the United States consumer consumption has gone from 65 percent to 70 percent of GDP since 1970. The idea that the United States can maintain 300 million people in a broadly middle-class... View Details
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
mattering for current tax policy is the "Buffett Rule" debate. The Buffett Rule would ensure that people with substantial incomes from investments paid average tax rates at least as high as middle-class workers. Both sides of this debate... View Details