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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
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
As the children of civil servants living in northern India, siblings Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019) and Namya Mahajan (HBS 2022) enjoyed educational advantages that millions of their lower-income peers did not—advantages such as high-quality... View Details
- Portrait Project
Adzmel Adznan
sweet aroma of glutinous rice and coconut milk slowly simmering in bamboos over open-pit fire. All around me, Mama and her siblings are busy tending to one cooking station after another, mixing spices and meat to the delight of my cousins... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Priya Paul (OPM 28, 1999)
When Priya Paul (OPM 28, 1999) returned home to India after graduating from Wellesley College in 1988, her father suggested she try working at one of the family holding company’s three hotels. Two years later, when her father died unexpectedly, Paul, her mother, and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 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
- 24 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
The Latin American Community at HBS
randomly placed in a group of 1,800 students, we found our place together. Strangely, no section, no discussion group, no border, or lifelong rivalry were obstacles to the creation of this big family. As in any traditional one, we all come with a load of personal... View Details
- Profile
Rocio Parra
With a father who has a PhD in electrical engineering, and two older siblings who also pursued engineering degrees, it seemed only natural that Rocio Parra would continue the family's engineering tradition. "I always assumed that I... View Details
- Web
First-Generation Students | MBA
first in their family to attend college. ... are the first in their family to pursue a graduate degree. ... have only one parent who completed a 4-year degree. ... are the second sibling in their immediate family to attend college. ...... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Origin Story: Mary Chen (MBA 2026)
Address label: Born outside Cleveland, Ohio, Chen grew up in California and Texas before attending Emory University in Georgia, where she majored in business. “My three siblings live in New York now, and I’ll be working there this summer, so that feels closest to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)
this day, the two siblings remain "very close," says Wasserstein, who readily defers to his sister's fame. "More often than not," he says affectionately, "I'm just known as Wendy's brother." After finishing his undergraduate studies at... View Details
- Profile
Julio Cedeno
Julio Cedeno was born in Texas just months after his mother and father (originally from Mexico and Venezuela respectively) arrived in the United States from Venezuela. As the oldest among a generation of siblings and cousins, Julio was... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- Profile
Mike Watitwa
efforts elsewhere. What is your favorite childhood memory? My parents practised small-scale farming. During the holidays, they would occasionally allow my siblings and me to join other casual laborers to work their maize plantation and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Turning Point: Ready or Not
older than me. I leaned on my grandmother when I separated and divorced; I frantically called one of my uncles or my father when I had good news to share. I listened when my great-uncle told me how my great-great-grandfather had walked from Afghanistan to India, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Chai Ling
the West, Chai hopes a more favorable political climate will allow her to return home. Chai's leadership and organizational abilities were honed early. When she was ten, her mother and father, both military doctors, put her in charge of her two younger View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
Children learning remotely often have to rely on parents or a sibling for help. The pandemic has caused the largest disruption of education systems in history, affecting more than one billion learners in more than 190 countries, according... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
Advice for Prospective Latino Students
American life, while maintaining my Mexican traditions through large family gatherings, tamales & pasteles, and a drive to chase the American dream. As the oldest of four children, I aspired to be a role model for my siblings and to... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
volunteering. My siblings and I started volunteering at a very young age and I've continued to do so my whole life," she says. At All Souls, an Upper East Side feeding program for the neighborhood's neediest families, Garrett has done... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely... View Details
- 09 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads
of two new products from Pepsico, Doritos Blaze snacks and Mountain Dew Ice soda. Each had an attention-getting star—Peter Dinklage of “Game of Thrones” fame and Morgan Freeman, respectively. Each had attention-holding content, with the stars mouthing popular rap... View Details