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Michele Biamonte
Michele (HGSE, Adult Development '05) combines her professional experience in finance, talent management and higher ed admin to help students and alumni optimize their self-assessment, career exploration and personal branding process. She coaches students and alumni... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- News
How Joe Shoen Got U-Haul Back on Track
The most recent issue of Forbes magazine has a long piece on Amerco, U-Haul’s parent company, and its return to dominance following decades-long internal turmoil. Leading the charge is Amerco CEO Joe Shoen (MBA 1973), who has a... View Details
- 10 AM – 11 AM EDT, 22 Oct 2015
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Collective Impact: An Innovative Approach to Improving Public Education
In this webinar, Professor Grossman will describe an innovative approach to improving public education Collective Impact and how you can get involved to help transform public education in the communities you care about. View Details
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Kimball Thomas
way for HBS parents to get together and have fun with our families. And Wendy loves the Partners Club – she’s one of the two partner reps for my section.” View Details
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Damali Brown
undergraduate. "A lot of the distinguished speakers who came to visit Spelman had MBAs, many of them from Harvard," she says. "I equated excellence early on with having an MBA from HBS." Reflecting on her background, Damali observes that while... View Details
- 21 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
My Fear of Student Debt: Funding the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
programs I had literally no savings and my parents were not going to help me. Going to graduate school meant I was going to have to take out loans and go into debt. What made it even more overwhelming was that I really wanted to do a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Delivering Trust
fertility doctors and 90 percent of all clinics in the United States. “High-quality assessments are the lifeblood of what we’re offering,” he adds. “Every new review helps hopeful parents and women trying to have a baby.” FertilityIQ... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
can induce a controlling shareholder to list equity. Higher valuations support listings associated with greater agency costs. We test the predictions that follow from this idea on a sample of publicly listed corporate subsidiaries in Japan. When there is greater scope... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
down from mentors or parents and, in the process, create a dividing line between those who inherently know how to navigate a workplace environment and everyone else. After working as a career advisor for first-generation and low-income... View Details
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Oscar Mak
Oscar is currently a Senior Director at NORD/LB, a leading bank in financing renewable energy and infrastructure projects. He previously led strategic investments (e.g., M&A, corporate VC, joint ventures) in North America for Toyota Tsusho, a diversified trading... View Details
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Emily Hannenberg
When you combine the logical mindset of an engineer with the values of someone who wishes to serve, you arrive at the inspirations behind Emily Hannenberg’s career in the military. "My parents are both physicians," Emily says.... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Roadmap for Moms
retain women during their child-rearing years or permit them to take a break and come back. What’s the experience been like for you personally? I’m showing my kids that it’s possible to be both a parent and a professional, and I think... View Details
- 14 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations
Coast. “Growing up and moving around, educational media helped me develop multi-culturally; it helped me continue to learn English and see what’s happening in the rest of the world.” Her own parents have held key social sector positions... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
students, teachers, and parents real-time reports on student progress. In the same classroom, you’ll have some fifth graders working on trigonometry and some reviewing basic arithmetic. The teacher no longer spends class time lecturing,... View Details