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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
restaurateur, broke, and with a wife and four young children at home, Rogers converted his aging Porsche into desperately needed cash to cinch the best deal he ever made — ownership of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream. It’s one of the stories... View Details
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
because they fear they're shortchanging their children for the sake of career advancement. But that attitude can be self-defeating, leading women to hold themselves back from promotions or drop out of the workforce altogether. "The... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
because I loved the job,” he remembers. “But I knew if I was ever going to be more than an employee, I had to do something else.” Answering the call of opportunity, Johnson moved his wife and four young children to Palo Alto to launch a... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
children be part of the journey has been so meaningful.” Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966) Founder, Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies; Mayor, New York City, 2002–2013 Honesty and ethics: “When my family sat down for dinner, my... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
the interaction of the number and spacing of a family’s children with the pricing policies of the local school. This within-neighborhood variation in tuition prices allows us to control for unobserved determinants of demand with a fine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
them. In order to get those two jobs done in the context of an MBA, it's actually quite hard, because we're organized to give them knowledge and we don't equip them to do these other jobs well. And then when I come home, what job do my View Details
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
hypothetical fires. A garment factory in a Third World country with minimal governmental regulatory oversight burns down, killing half of the three hundred women and children employed there; it subsequently becomes clear that the... View Details
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
the form of an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). Initially, Nate ran the business and after a few years changed roles with Julia to stay at home with their young children for three years. The two were in charge as co-CEOs before Julia... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
says Leahy. “I want to take all that I've learned and try to build a better world for them.” Making Her Mark with Mission-Driven Work This desire to build a better world for her children and future generations set in motion Leahy’s next... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
well as the breadth and depth of talent at HBS. Joshua Mbanusi’s Road to HBS Joshua Mbanusi grew up the youngest of five children raised by a single mother and his earliest days shaped his career decisions and professional passions. “To... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
Small, Devin G. Pope, and Michael I. Norton Publication:Social Psychological and Personality Science (forthcoming) Abstract We document an age penalty in racial discrimination: charitable behavior toward African American children... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
and running in that direction and is good at it.) It turns out that its vision is "excellent public schools for every child in New Orleans." Every child, not just the children in charter schools. The state runs the majority of... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
and nutritious surplus food to people in need in Australia, where one in five Australian children suffers from food insecurity. Their nonprofit SecondBite distributes free food to more than 1 million people, the equivalent of 40 million... View Details
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Commencement 2012 Address | About
family friend told me about a small tradition they used in his family, and I liked it so much that I quickly incorporated it into mine: each evening, just before his children went to sleep, he’d ask them to describe their Three Thank... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
reforming the judiciary, and cracking the mysteries of forest and climate interaction. And then there are my Liberian friends outside of work. Many of them are young people who, while earning $100 or $200 a month, take care of their View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
It's not a thing that he tolerates. It's a thing of mutual respect, and that makes all the difference in the world. And thirdly, he talks about this with our boys. Our children don't think this is abnormal. There are many, many, baseball... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
fast-trackers, the hotshot stockbrokers, Ivy League Napoleons, young fogies, conspicuously consuming baby boomers, the self-important MBAsŠ. Is the press right? Do you all really drive his and hers BMWs, buy $2 ice-cream bars, wear suspenders, trade on insider... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Mentorship has been an ongoing theme and concern for Lack, whether in the business or nonprofit sector. After graduation, she worked at McKinsey in its New York and Washington, DC, offices for four years. She left while pregnant with the first of three View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
being treated properly. Not being able to properly transport and treat waste has a wide scale impact. Forty-eight percent of all children under the age of five are undernourished because of bad sanitation. What’s more, India spends 15... View Details