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- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Again and Again
I’m realizing that we have a lot of these mini rituals in conversation, and they become very specific to individuals. There are things I would say to my wife or my kids that I would not say to you, but by the same token, things I would... View Details
- 07 Nov 2023
- News
Love and Money
around certain topics; and one is the money date. He recommends going out to dinner with your partner. You can do this around the dinner table with your kids or your grandkids as well. And each chapter in the book has a list of maybe 50... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS
of the lessons that comes to mind was Clay would always say "never outsource parenting." And that's one thing I'm proud to say that I have not done. So I've been in the pool for an hour every day for six years, teaching my kids to swim.... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
high-school history teacher Jack Soliman. “One is about indoctrination. The other is about helping kids become independent thinkers. ‘This is what you should think’ versus ‘What do you think?’ ” “In education in the United States, you... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
is devoted to his family. Brennan often says he’s the luckiest person in the world, but it’s clear that his success involves considerable amounts of intelligence, hard work, and ambition. A middle-class kid whose early jobs included... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
to the 6th century Why? In short, says Berman, the 1,500-year-old game makes kids smarter. (Berman’s own oldest son is ranked No. 11 in the country for his age group and his 6-year-old recently earned the No. 3 spot among kindergartners.... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
him. John Hess: I grew up in Perth, Amboy, New Jersey, so I’m a Jersey boy and I’m proud of it. My dad never went to college. He was the fourth of four kids and the first three siblings went to college. They had the money, the Depression... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)
play, there’s a high likelihood you’re going to try regular golf.” Up-and-comer: Aaron Wise, who signed with Callaway after winning the NCAA individual and team championships for the University of Oregon. Tee time: “I play every weekend, with a few exceptions, usually... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
values, our emotional lives—and how we see ourselves, and others—shape every discussion, from who will pick up the kids to how we want to be treated at work. In this book, you will learn why some people are able to make themselves heard,... View Details
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
on where my kids went to school, was what drove a lot of these expectations and missed expectations, and, therefore, anger. And so as I kind of try and peel the onion on all this stuff, it is very, very difficult to pull back if you have... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
fully accredit all of our high schools, all of our middle schools. That is the absolute floor that has to happen. So all-American city, all-American schools, I see us bringing in not a Fortune 500, but a company that is able to have an immediate impact on the city,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974
incredible students with the best experience possible,” Stamps explains. One of Stamps’s most rewarding activities is selecting and getting to know the scholars. Each school recommends a pool of candidates, and Stamps helps pick those he thinks have the most potential.... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
Illustration by Lincoln Agnew Pete Stavros (MBA 2002) got his first lessons in labor relations as a kid at the dinner table, when his father, who operated a road grader at construction sites, told the family about his day. The elder... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
became CEO of the researcher’s fledgling firm, Novazyme Pharmaceuticals. But Crowley’s personal involvement in the cure he sought almost proved his undoing, as perceptions of potential conflicts of interest threatened to keep his kids out... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
create the illusion of higher quality. I’ve always bought the cheapest vodka I could find, but my kids insist on the expensive brands. Great lesson in the realities of marketing! —Howard (Ted) Greene (MBA 1967) Back to top “Ant Financial”... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981
Applitek 1988 Cofounds Sigma Network Systems 1991 Founds Nu-Link, Inc. 1996 Cofounds NetCore Systems 2000 Cofounds Starent Networks 2007 Starent Networks IPO 2009 Cisco buys Starent Networks 2012 Cofounds Altiostar Networks Cofounder, Chairman, and CEO, Altiostar... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons
kids last summer and experienced something he hadn’t in years: complete panic. Once a “master of the universe” as chairman of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette’s Financial Services Group, Pechter was now just another teacher-in-training,... View Details