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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
around our inability to ensure that all children attain foundational literacy and numeracy skills. In simple words, if a child at age 10 can’t read and do basic math, they get left View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 Feb 2021
- News
Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce
at all until they succeed in surpassing a certain income threshold. The Globe article offers the example of Jeo Tovar, a 35-year-old father of three who earned about $30,000 a year as a personal trainer before the pandemic. “There’s no... View Details
- Portrait Project
Polina Yampolska
change the entire principle of its functioning." I was unimpressed by my own strength back then and awed by the grandeur of the world. I desperately wanted to break out from behind the Iron Curtain, get a visa to a Western country,... View Details
- 27 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right
immediate steps to tighten quality assurance requirements on Mattel's suppliers. There has been no effort to duck behind blaming suppliers and distributors or, even worse, consumers—as Audi attempted to do... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
High Adventure
husband, an importer of automobile parts, began considering some big changes. Beilharz quit her job to care for her first child and stayed home as her brood grew to four — now ages 9 through 18. In 1998, the family View Details
- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
home, and deeply embedded stereotypes about women as caregivers and men as breadwinners start to resurface with more intensity. “When your child runs in during your Zoom call,” says Ammerman, “that's perceived very differently than when... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
for freedom?” Djelic asked himself. That autumn, he resigned from McKinsey and bid farewell to his wife, Marie-Laure, and two young daughters, who stayed behind in Paris. He returned to Belgrade for the first time in a decade, and plunged... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
that unit. Gibbs and the family he left behind never strayed far from Kim’s mind as he returned home and pursued a career in private equity, first as principal at Butler Capital in New York and later as... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
Paul Callahan (MBA 1992) is the captain of his own fate. A freak accident at age 21 left him a quadriplegic. That transformative moment led him, ultimately, to take the helm of Sail to Prevail, a nonprofit that helps disabled children and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
responsibility. As a diary of successful social activism, the book is engaging. What makes it inspiring is the back story: Massie was afflicted by hemophilia, a rare disorder that as a child left him in... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
exacerbated by the workplace flexibility of the COVID era has put increasing demands on businesses to offer or expand benefits that support family schedules. In this episode of Skydeck, contributor April White talks to Stephen Kramer (MBA 1997), CEO of Bright Horizons,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Shahar Ziv
personality, and experience – in individual’s voices. I will help others develop an appreciation for their own gifts so no one feels left out simply because they don’t know the right words. I will make... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sam Li
I continue my journey as an engineer and entrepreneur. I want to build technology for the future—technology for everyone; not just the enthusiasts. No one should be left behind... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
It’s no secret HBS graduates are a hard-charging bunch who sometimes find it hard to take time off. Most eventually learn how to do this so they can recharge to do even harder charging—spending time at a beach, playing golf, climbing... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
For Christina Ehrenberg (MBA 2001), HBS is only the latest in a series of remarkable learning experiences — the world itself has been her greatest teacher, imparting to her a wisdom and composure that belie her years. An only child whose... View Details
- Portrait Project
Luke Henesy
test, were next to none. In my first year of teaching I sweated through each day, trying desperately to maintain order by being strict and unforgiving. "Man, Henesy has no chill," I'd hear as students walked by during passing... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
few months ago, has since been openly considered by many. It would carry traumatic and long-lasting consequences. The crisis has already had a profound political impact, sweeping aside leaders in no fewer than five member countries of the... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
will seem quaint in comparison, say the HBS alumni behind the nonpartisan group, Reform Elections Now (REN), who gave a virtual presentation to the HBS Club of Dallas in early September to educate and engage business leaders on the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
leave the firm in 2014. “I left without a job prepared to engage in a period of exploration and a long term job search. I knew I wanted to do something small, entrepreneurial, mission driven, and with great potential to make a global... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
Africa. Even more broadly, one is left with aggregate statistics that both inform and numb. . . . Living in the United States, we may be shocked to learn that so many people in the world live on less than $2.00 per day, or that a quarter... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh