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- Portrait Project
Lisa Marrone
“You’ll do the right thing.” My father pauses after saying these words and looks at me, pleadingly. There are moments in life when things become just a little bit clearer. I blink and stare. What is the right thing? My parents were never... View Details
- 09 Nov 2015
- News
Chuck (MBA 1970) and Sue Fienning
served as a section correspondent since graduation. Raised in the Midwest by parents who believed in giving back to society, Fienning now lives in South Carolina where he serves as a senior advisor to Sumter Packaging Corporation, a firm... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
enabled parents to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood as a source of stem cells—was her first foray into entrepreneurship. Fisher’s father, however, was reminding her that good intentions need solid financial underpinnings to be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Richard Edelman
founded just over fifty years ago, from $6 million in fees in 1978 to $230 million today. Now the largest independently owned PR firm in the world, the company has offices in 38 cities and an account list that includes UPS, Swiss Re, and Microsoft. Having grown up... View Details
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Work & Life - Race, Gender & Equity
Life & Leadership After HBS Tradeoffs & Time Limits: Work & Life for Dual-Career Families Juggling responsibilities at home and work is challenging for both men and women, particularly those parenting young children. Drawing on the most... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
behind and couldn’t shake the feeling that he had to do something for children like her. Together, the couple launched the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation to provide scholarships and educational counseling to military children who lost a View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)
understand. One of the central challenges we face now is that people hold their childhoods dear. Parents who grew up with Sesame Street don’t want it to change, but the world they grew up in is different from the one their kids are... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Portrait Project
Sunru Yong
Surrounded by friends with cars better equipped to both impress girls and top 60 mph, I wavered between self-consciousness and an absurd delight in the beast of a car my parents had salvaged just for me. In retrospect, I recognize in her... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
his family. In the 1980s, Adem T. Bunkeddeko’s (MBA 2017) parents escaped from war-torn Uganda to a tiny one-bedroom apartment in Queens. There they raised their children and helped other friends and family acclimate to this new country.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
psychologist Diana Baumrind on parenting styles. Her research highlights four parenting "prototypes" oriented along two dimensions: the level of direction parents... View Details
- 21 Dec 2017
- News
Finding Opportunities to Grow and Lead
because I was a girl, I couldn't be a leader. I recognized the double standard that my parents had never raised me to expect. But that's what I was finding. So, moving forward in my life, I have been very involved in everything connected... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
mechanics—points and badges—to give even more motivation. Every interaction with our system is logged, and this data is used to give students, teachers, and parents real-time reports on student progress. In the same classroom, you’ll have... View Details
- 10 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Coming Out at Business School
effeminate classmates. To go on dates with women in hopes of 'making it work.' To ignore my feelings for Ben. To binge drink and feel less. It took me years to accomplish what my parents did that evening: Accepting me for who I am. I am... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Love My Job: Leticia Tavares On Marriott's Management Acceleration Program
Thanksgiving!Last, but not certainly not least, meeting Mr. J.W. Marriott, Jr. is an experience that I will never forget! In our brief discussion, he told me that learning operations from the ground up is invaluable for my development, noting that he started out in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
America the Unequal
people with zero net worth, and even negative net worth, can still believe that they are living the American dream, doing “better” than their parents did while keeping up with the Joneses. Second, poorer Americans’ belief in social... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
Encyclopedia Britannica. A little less, maybe the World Book. Neither of my parents went to college. In our case, they struggled to buy a letter a week of the encyclopedia available through the A&P, where we bought groceries. That was how... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
supported the HBS Fund since she graduated. Business was not a path she considered as a child. At the age of 10, Ma, her younger sister, and her parents emigrated from Beijing to New York. Attending public schools and not speaking... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
store in New Jersey; the son accompanied him on buying trips to New York and watched him negotiate for the best merchandise and price. He had even launched his own successful business before arriving at HBS: a birthday cake delivery service that advertised to the View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
eighteen different family companies from nine countries. Among them were several family owners and managers of the Stroh Companies, Inc., the parent company of America's fourth largest brewery. "We're now in our sixth generation," says... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
on comedy writing at the People’s Improv Theater in addition to writing for Monk, a USA Network weekly comedy-mystery series. Toplyn and his wife, Sherry, are the parents of two teenage sons. As an undergrad, I worked on the Harvard... View Details