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- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Learning Curve
collaboration and training in the success of the students as well as the high rates of staff retention. (Though she was still grateful when some parents began to volunteer for lunch duty.) “It was a lot of small battles, a lot of blocking... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids By Daisy Dowling (MBA 2002) Harvard Business Review Press Sure, there are plenty of parenting books out there. But as working moms and dads, we’ve never had a trusted, go-to guide all... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- Blog Post
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
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
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
- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
financially underserved. Chrys and his parents in Aldrich early in the spring semester At the start of their first spring semester at HBS, Shrey and Chrys would meet almost daily after class to chat with HBS alumni and professors,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
The room I shared with my parents and five siblings was about one hundred square feet; next to our room lived the “red ladies” or prostitutes, and on the other side, the heroin addicts. Yes, there was crime and poverty; but there was also... View Details
- 22 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Section Life: Your HBS Family
microcosm of the school as a whole. At the beginning of your RC year sections hang all the flags from the nations represented within the section on the wall of their classrooms; when my parents came to visit class one day, they were... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
serve.” This outreach includes wellness-check phone calls and handwritten letters aimed at students, parent resource packets, a virtual self-care program for teachers, and a virtual appreciation lunch program each month for staff members.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
deteriorated, and crime increased. "I remember feeling that my parents and neighbors were victims of forces beyond their control," Jones says. Later, while earning a degree at the University of San Diego, Jones, at age 23, became chief of... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)
We moved to Toronto from Mombasa, Kenya, when I was eight and my brother [Asif Satchu, MBA 1999] was six. For my parents to decide to come here and start a new life was, in many ways, THe ultimate risk. The immigrant experience is... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
theme parks—was to ensure a steady flow of creative software for its global hardware businesses. Senior MCA management agreed to the acquisition, expecting the new, cash-rich Japanese parent to provide capital for acquiring more record... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Extraordinary Things We Do on Ordinary Days: A Mother’s Day Tribute
about Austin, his unwavering devotion to family. It’s always our family first. We take time for family dinners, family walks, and family books. We also cherish our time with our parents and love watching them be grandparents, and our... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
that is based on robotics. “The goal is for us to identify talent early, so that we can attract students into our graduate program and provide hope to primary schools kids and parents that there will be jobs and an employment future,” he... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- Career Coach
Megan Gardner
Megan (HBS ’06) is an executive coach, board member and tactical advisor for CEOs and senior executives. As a founder and CEO of a technology business, she knows first-hand the value of strong coaching in a rapidly growing business. In her last venture, she raised over... View Details
- 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
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Get to Know Class Day Speaker Adán Acevedo
who support students every day. He credits his wife for his ability to accomplish all that he has, his parents and younger sister for showing him what it means to be and care for a family, and his friends and mentors for their unwavering... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Thinking About an MBA? Think About Your Purpose
Her difficult experience as an end-of-life caregiver for her parents has helped inform Walgreen’s purpose of inspiring “more joyful lives through better health,” she said. As she put it: “I don’t want anyone else to have to go through... View Details
- 05 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Addressing Unmet Needs in Health Care Using an MBA
interested in health care. My parents were physicians and my siblings are physicians and hence I grew up influenced by health care. Working in health care provides significant opportunities to make a positive difference in lives of... View Details