parenting - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2002
News

Pamela Thomas Graham

height of the civil rights movement, Thomas-Graham's parents held up Thurgood Marshall and other lawyers as role models who created peaceful change at a time when racial tensions were running high. "Our family heroes were African... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

31 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom

their parents own. So BMW, knowing that it's a fashion brand, is trying to manage different and multiple brand messages for different audiences, using the Internet and various other forms of distribution. Q: What else about marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service

27 Mar 2023
News

A Sporting Chance

and to be better, and it's a great tool to help them succeed in school, a profession, university, or whatever," he explains. Sometimes the biggest change isn't in the kids but in the parents. The more the young people succeed at their chosen sport, the more confident... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

24 Jul 2020
News

Reimagining Chicago’s Schools

experience. Rather than using the data from standardized tests (which are unpopular with both parents and teachers), and applying it to a school or grade or classroom en masse, Intrinsic employs it to individualize student learning.... View Details

10 Oct 2018
News

Building Paths to Success

southeast Australia, with supportive, attentive parents who created opportunities for success. His dad was the first in four generations to attend college and he worked as the high school principal. “We were very involved in the local... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 1999
News

A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News

committee's board of trustees was going to call: Bain Capital CEO W. Mitt Romney (MBA '74, JD '75). Although he is a Massachusetts resident, Romney's Utah roots run deep: his ancestors journeyed west with Brigham Young, his parents were... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

07 Oct 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers

Switch Habits Juul vaping products have become a cigarette alternative for adult smokers and a growing concern among parents of teens. What the company did initially to head off concerns. Cost-cutting Leads to Turbulence in the Airline... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Air Transportation

Profile

Jonathan Evans

philanthropy by connecting people, one by one, to ideas that spoke to them.” Over a period of three years, the organization grew. “We added staff, an office, then merged with DonorsChoose.org. I learned a lot about due diligence and operations. When I transferred to... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

The Business of Babies

The demand for babies by infertile couples and other would-be parents is huge — and little discussed. HBS professor Debora L. Spar addressed the market realities of adoption and scientific conception at the 2003 Alumni Health-Care... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Jul 2012
News

Movie Magic

company. (Formerly CEO of Redbox, Kaplan now serves as interim president of Redbox and president and COO of Coinstar, Redbox’s parent company.) “Value, simplicity, and convenience,” is how Kaplan explains Redbox’s success, citing its... View Details

Keywords: vending machines; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

28 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 28

Categorization of Black-White Biracials By: Ho, Arnold K., Jim Sidanius, Amy J.C. Cuddy, and Mahzarin R. Banaji Abstract—Individuals who qualify equally for membership in more than one racial group are not judged as belonging equally to both of their View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Portrait Project

Matias Ruiz

Growing up in Argentina with loving parents and finding the love of my life were the strongest things that shaped the person I am today. Early on when I started this fantastic experience I promised myself that I would gather some of the... View Details

13 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Video Perspectives: Magashe Ngoepe

my parents were educators. I grew up in the Limpopo Province of South Africa, and they placed a high value and premium on having a solid and strong education. But I wasn't always first in my class, I wasn't always the hardest working. I... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Down on the Farm: Frank Burke (MBA '87)

the tarp out on the field when it rains, to greeting the fans as they enter the park. "Our parent club, the Cincinnati Reds, pays our players," Burke continues. "That leaves us free to concentrate on optimizing the ballpark experience... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

15 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS

Andrea Pimienta, Class of 2021 My family’s life in the U.S. started in 1987, about four years before I was born, when my parents emigrated from Mexico to the U.S. for my father’s new job as the CEO of a company that offered an affinity... View Details

Profile

Vivian Scalfi

As a girl growing up in the countryside of Brazil, Vivian Scalfi had parents who were "overly concerned" and a conflicting ambition of her own to "dream big and leave the countryside." At age seventeen, she followed... View Details

Keywords: CPG

Profile

Rohan Gopaldas

Rohan Gopaldas' parents and grandparents taught him the meaning of hospitality through simple home-cooked Sunday meals with family and their service in soup kitchens. They taught him the meaning of hard work, of what it takes to arrive in... View Details

Profile

Kam Phillips-Sadler

A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Kam Phillips-Sadler was “virtually born in a saddle.” Kam’s parents are both riders and ranchers who instilled a love of all things horse and cow in Kam. “I was a rodeo cowgirl,” says Kam, who participated... View Details

01 Apr 1998
News

Going For The Summit

"baby-boomer" audience, iVillage launched its first Web site, Parent Soup (www.parentsoup.com), in 1995. The popular site offers online visitors a combination of expert and peer advice on child rearing, as well as resources such as... View Details

Keywords: Caroline Chauncey

01 Feb 1999
News

Moving Mountains

Charlie Barco passed away unexpectedly in 1994, he left a strong operation in the capable hands of his wife and daughter. "My parents understood the importance of long-range planning in a family business," says Kathy Barco, who had... View Details