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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
Mark Twain in front of his childhood home in Hannibal, Missouri (photos courtesy of American Writers Museum) Before he arrived at HBS, Jay Hammer (MBA 1979) was pursuing a PhD in literature at Johns Hopkins. Daunted by the increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
trait. Although he didn’t arrive in the United States until age 10, Ted Levitt didn’t look back, rarely discussing what must have been a difficult childhood for a Jewish boy during Hitler’s ascendancy. After serving in World War II, where... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
to provide early childhood education, post-trauma psychosocial support for children, parents, and women, and preschool learning materials and hygiene kits for families in container villages and other locations in the region via mobile... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
A Man of Influence
childhood as the grandson of Sicilian immigrants to World War II, when he piloted a B-25 attack bomber, to his time as an aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson, to his 39 years amongst the movers and shakers of Hollywood as leader of the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
How Scholarships Helped One Student Achieve Many Firsts
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. In a video profile, Christine Keung (MBA 2020) shares how scholarships enabled her to explore, grow, and earn an education that far exceeded her childhood... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
house in York for us to live in. So this started a very happy childhood in York. JH: Growing up, Bob and his brother had an outdoorsy childhood, riding their bikes and playing in the fields and creeks near town. But Wilson was also pretty... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
University of Cincinnati every year for treatment? Why does he seem to struggle to walk? Horgan eventually came to understand that his brother suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy—a fatal, childhood genetic disease that impacts about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
team hope to evoke irony, humor, and even childhood memories with their creations. “We have turned eating into an experience that supersedes eating,” he has said. “If the product is merely food, Adrià should move the restaurant to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
entrepreneurial spirit, and fight disease of whatever kind." Less than a year later, those words took on a tragic relevance for Crowley and his wife, Aileen, when their 18-month-old daughter Megan was diagnosed with Pompe's disease, a fatal and extremely rare View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
recalls. “I said, ‘Absolutely. Sign me up.’ It was the luck of bingo that changed my life trajectory. I wanted to be part of something that took luck out of the equation for others.” That bingo reference harks back to Owusu-Kesse’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
outdoorsman, he grew up in San Francisco and spent his childhood hiking and fishing with his family in the Pacific Northwest. The scenery in Manhattan is a bit different, he admits. “We have a different kind of canyon here,” he laughs.... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
A Category Leader
to a couple of strengths. Being attuned to other people and the diversity of their needs came from my childhood traveling with my father, because he interacted with people of all different levels. “Also, developing people is really... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
were now ill-prepared for a very different demographic reality. Although I was no longer the object of discrimination, I couldn't shake off the knowledge of what it's like to be harassed and terrorized because you are different. Indeed, my View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
and stewardship of those programs. During dinner, Neil Ashe (MBA 1996), Chairman and CEO of Acuity Brands, presented the club’s Social Impact Award to Dean Crowe, Founder of the Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research. In 2014,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
traveling to 140 countries with his wife, Elaine, a specialist in early childhood education, he made it a practice to spend time with people in poor areas before visiting with heads of state or ngos. “We learned a lot that those leaders... 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 the center by the hour or by... View Details
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
to research and write the book, film the documentary, and promote both projects on a speaking tour last fall. While she returns to her financial work this year, she knows the book’s work—to inspire change—is far from over. Whether it’s fighting for access to early... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Pursuing a passion
Michelle Crames and Jeff Norton (both MBA ’ 03) of a company called Lean Forward Media. “Michelle and Jeff discovered they shared a childhood passion for a series of books called Choose Your Own Adventure, which allowed readers to select... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
surmount them or succumb to them. Memorable childhood books? The Laura Ingalls Wilder series that begins with Little House in the Big Woods, for their vivid reconstruction of a world gone by and a child’s place in that world. Those books... View Details