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01 Jan 2008
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John Doerr, MBA 1976

ages 11 and 17, Doerr puts family as his top priority. Growing up in a tight-knit middle-class family in St. Louis, John Doerr was influenced by his entrepreneurial father. “My parents worked hard to give all five of their children... View Details

13 May 2021
Blog Post

Zhalisa Clarke’s Sabbatical Story: Tech leader turned healer

be a healer) in India and Peru. True to her nature, Zhalisa found herself putting on her business hat to bring the holistic health insights she’d learned in India back to the States. Next, Zhalisa planned trips with each of her parents... View Details

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Behrad Mahdi

Although Behrad Mahdi was raised in Columbus, Ohio, his could hardly be described as a typical Midwestern childhood. "My parents could not return to their home country after the 1979 Iranian Revolution," Behrad says.... View Details

27 Apr 2017
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Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World

Tucker York (MBA 1986) (photo by Chris Taggart) Tucker York (MBA 1986) (photo by Chris Taggart) DONOR: Tucker York (MBA 1986) Goldman Sachs Scholars Fellowship Tucker York (MBA 1986) recalls that, as a student at HBS, he didn’t realize how fortunate he was that his... View Details

01 Dec 2005
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Back to School

family moved to Florida, and Whitney “retired” to be with her kids. “I got involved in parent organizations and became one of those supermom volunteers — chairing fundraisers and all that,” says Whitney. “I found out I was really good at... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

Career Coach

Rebecca Emerick

Rebecca is a Corporate Relations Director in the HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) office. She has worked in CPD since 2008 and serves as the consulting industry lead for the office. In addition, she manages the recruiting operations team responsible for... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

Career Coach

Annette Rodriguez-Ferrer

Annette Rodriguez brings over 20 years of seasoned expertise in private equity, across business services, consumer services, and healthcare. She has dedicated her career to building teams and investing in and developing best-in-class businesses and management, across a... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Entrepreneurship; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Health Care; Retail; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship

28 Apr 2023
Blog Post

How Employers Can Support LGBTQ+ Employees

largely tied to the discrimination many LGBTQ+ folks face), and providing sufficient parental leave for parents of all genders.” They also highlighted the importance of creating inclusive policies that do... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

Profile

Sebastian Vargas

parents took my friends, cousins, and me to a rollercoaster park in Bogota called Mundo Aventura. The details of the day escape me, but my recollection is one of unbounded fun and happiness – everyone I loved was present that day. When I... View Details

24 Feb 2017
Blog Post

Advice for Prospective Latino Students

I was born in Mexico and moved to California when my parents decided they wanted to build a better life for our family. From the age of five, my new home was Fresno, California - a large city in the Central Valley where I was surrounded... View Details

22 Aug 2024
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LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center

most cutting-edge technology and highest quality turbine blades, which it sells to companies such as Vestas, Siemens, and GE, LM Wind’s parent company.Below is a photo of our team in front of the first-ever offshore wind turbine blade... View Details

23 Jul 2021
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Trends in Consumer Products

General Mills products saw significant increases. In fact, Nature Valley Granola Bars sales declined as children stayed home for virtual school. With parents not packing lunches and children eating at home, the portable snack bar business... View Details

06 Oct 2020
News

Clearing the Path to Citizenship

Photo courtesy Xiao Wang Photo courtesy Xiao Wang Thirty years ago, at the age of three, Xiao Wang (MBA 2014) came to the United States from Nanjing, China, to join his parents in Los Angeles. The couple had moved to pursue educational... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2020
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Ink: The Habit of Innovation

view the process as being as rational as possible. These criteria will be guidelines, not rules, as final decisions will always require subjective judgment. Involve outsiders. Parents can attest to how hard it is to be objective about... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

19 Nov 2014
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The Power of Yes

him an early awareness of the stark economic discrepancies between residents living in luxury high-rises just a few hundred feet from those surviving in slums. “The statistical unlikelihood of my parents meeting, along with those visits... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

11 Dec 2023
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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

started in her early years. The influence of her mother, an artist, and her father, a mathematician-turned-businessman, inspired Leahy to explore both passions throughout her life. Her parents also encouraged her ambitions and were strong... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

teenage sons.” By example: “My parents didn’t teach me their values around work and family—I absorbed them through their example and expectations. My mother was a nurse who was always helping others, and my dad chose to work as a doctor... View Details

13 Dec 2022
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The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith

graduates from working-class families. I helped my parents deliver packages and clean college dorms in Philadelphia. Christine helped her immigrant parents run a Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles. It was... View Details

09 May 2021
Blog Post

Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year

a support group for one another as we navigated the joys and challenges of motherhood. The student parent community at Harvard Business School is heavily skewed towards fathers as opposed to mothers, with a 5:1 father to mother ratio.... View Details

Portrait Project

Omar A. Abou-Sayed

me up at night. There is a certain responsibility that comes with having parents who have always and unquestioningly put my life before theirs, who were involved in my schooling and made it a priority, who introducing me to the arts and... View Details

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