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- 05 Oct 2023
- News
On the Move: Massimo (Max) Magni (MBA 2003)
strategic long-term growth of the company. Magni’s journey to Macy’s has been many years in the making. He grew up in a village of 8,000 people in Italy. His parents believed in the importance of traveling, so Magni spent a year as a... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
misconception when high-potential young women decide they can’t be good parents and stay on a path to senior management. I got married and started a family in my late 30s. We had less disposable income then but we still managed to nd the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
and former Managing Partner, Venrock Associates Take flight: “I soloed in a single-engine airplane at the age of 14, at a crazy place on Long Island called the Aviation Club. It was a dirt airstrip with telephone poles all around the field. I often wonder why my View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Again and Again
ritual to other people to build those rituals? It would be weird to announce, “I’d like to build a greeting ritual.” Norton: The place where it happens a lot is in families, and the reason is the kids are captives. The parents can decide... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Hands-on Learning About Global Markets
peace of mind that their parents were being monitored, and for the seniors, it made them feel independent and secure. “In FIELD Global Immersion, students are the protagonists. They apply frameworks from their RC year to real problems and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frances Haugen: (MBA 2011)
I went to a Montessori preschool. My parents were very big on the idea that children are people and treated me with great seriousness. If they asked me to do something, I was allowed to ask why. Debate was a big part of my high school... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
office to have it typed up. Can you even imagine that today? Would you want your kids to do what you do? I really consider myself to be one of the luckiest people in the world, with all the times I've won the lottery: being born in America, having View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
a high-stakes job, and as success boosts her confidence, her husband becomes more abusive. After they return to America, she escapes with their two toddlers. Three years later, a single parent with a serious health emergency, she earns an... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Susan Young READ MORE Julia Hanna: Gwill York’s (MBA 1984) parents were determined that their daughter would be practical and self-sufficient. As it turns out, they didn’t have to push too hard. At the age of nine, York started driving... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist
Three dollars in cash, six changes of clothing, five bottles of rum, and a box of cigars. These were the items that belonged to 12-year-old Carlos Saladrigas when he arrived in Miami in 1961. His parents chose the risk of sending their... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
always says. There can’t be multiple people making decisions that conflict with each other. “While most people would recommend not bringing business to the dinner table, I personally believe that the two businesses––the one with my View Details
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
studying hard. Chess, Berman says, even gave him the smarts to get into HBS. Berman treats the game like a religious vocation and he preaches its virtues wherever he goes, often sending chess sets to friends with small children in the hope those View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Endless Possibilities
Faye Iosotaluno (MBA 2008) met her husband through friends when she was only 19 years old. It was 1999, and the mobile-first app Tinder—which launched in 2012 and where Iosotaluno is currently COO—was not even a distant glimmer on the dating horizon. While the app... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
became a political leader during Reconstruction. Eventually, Kearns discovered that he is a descendant of Emanuel Cumbo, his 10th great-grandfather, who was born to parents who arrived in Point Comfort, Virginia, from the Kingdom of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Turning Point: Where Credit Is Due
Nagi Otgonshar (MBA 2015) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Nagi Otgonshar (MBA 2015) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Earning a full scholarship has always been the only realistic ticket to a superior education for me. It was this golden opportunity that allowed me to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
and create a competitive track record for the country.” Enan grew up with her parents and sister in the Osman Towers, a block of apartments overlooking the Nile River. She graduated from Cairo University in 2006 with a degree in... View Details
- 07 Nov 2023
- News
Love and Money
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Which is the best dating app? Can money actually buy love? When do you talk about money in a new relationship and how do you broach the topic? How can well-meaning parents actually help their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
pause to ask you how you are doing. Subway cars don’t stop to help you on the side of the road. Airplanes don’t take time to look you in the eye. Life gets messy—which is both bad and good. Parents have more severe medical issues, some... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley
how to do entrepreneurship right. In many cases, this means overcoming historical impediments and cultural barriers, as well as dealing with legal and regulatory environments that may not be entrepreneurship friendly. In Japan, for example, failure is stigmatized.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele