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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
Defining Moments by Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr. (Harvard Business School Press) How should you respond if you are offered an opportunity at work solely because of your race or gender? What should you do if a single parent on your staff is... View Details
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
psychologist Diana Baumrind on parenting styles. Her research highlights four parenting "prototypes" oriented along two dimensions: the level of direction parents... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
IN HIS ELEMENT: Peter Thayer has spotted nearly 3,500 species of birds...and counting. Peter Thayer (MBA ’73) didn’t recognize the little bird hopping about in his backyard outside Cincinnati. His parents had given him a field guide for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Tribute to Fellowships
uninhabitable ruin. Her immediate urge was to leave HBS to help her parents put their lives, and their home, back together. They balked at the idea, insisting that they would be fine without her. Nearly two... View Details
- 19 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Moving to the U.S. With a Family
easier. During Thanksgiving, one of my classmates invited us to their house for a spectacular dinner before leaving campus to spend the holiday with their family. We also signed up for the Thanksgiving Host Program where international... View Details
- 01 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the Value of an MBA
get right to the core of the decision to get an MBA: “Is two years away from work and this tuition going to be a worthwhile investment in myself?” It’s also present in more mundane decisions while you’re here: going to the gym, getting enough sleep, and calling your... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
equity. Firmly established in the business world, in the late 1980s, Tierney set out to find a way to fight poverty in Latin America and Africa. “I had been involved in various efforts since my Peace Corps days, but I knew it was time to get serious,” explains Tierney,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Portrait Project
Dionne Hosten
I'm jealous. I've always been envious of my friends who knew exactly what they wanted to do with their lives. I don't know exactly what my Calling is, but after two years thinking about it, I have at least some glimpse. I want to help create spaces in this world where... View Details
- 01 May 2015
- Blog Post
How Being an HBS Partner Changed My Life
parents through cancer treatments and my husband through a deployment. Somewhere during that decade, I stopped dreaming about what life could be, and started hoping for what life wouldn’t be. This is how I arrived at HBS. But to my... View Details
- Profile
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
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
independently from their parent organizations. Even in ventures with comparable staffing levels and start dates, those that had separated from the core business were more innovative and had higher market-penetration rates than those that... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- Portrait Project
Omar A. Abou-Sayed
around with my fly down of not being liked by people I respect of being loved of regrets of leaving home of not living up to my potential of being outgrown by my friends of being alone of a life without spelcheck of not honoring my... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
illustration by Cathy Gendron When the pressure is on and the going gets messy, Swanee Hunt, former U.S. ambassador to Austria, can usually find a diplomatic way to discuss just about any situation. But for Hunt, a parent of three, and... View Details
- Profile
Vivian Scalfi
As a girl growing up in the countryside of Brazil, Vivian Scalfi had parents who were "overly concerned" and a conflicting ambition of her own to "dream big and leave the countryside." At... View Details
Keywords: CPG
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
can do x,’” says Cheney. “I had an ‘aha’ moment that there was a lack of a marketplace to connect the supply and demand on that.” A New Recruiting Solution is Born Cheney built out the concept for Prokanga while on maternity leave with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
one-year-old, who’s just been through this whole back to work after parental leave transition, who could give you some pep talks over the next six months. That support can come in so many different ways, but... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
two-parent families in the United States with children reported both parents working full-time in 2015—up from less than a third in 1970. For some, there has been a tangible impact on their professional lives, with 30 percent of the Pew... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney
foundering parent as CEO in the early 1990s. "Both Bain and the SLOC were dispirited organizations suffering from leadership crises," Romney observes. "Both had financial problems and needed new clients. And both were negatively affected... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Tales of the Newly-minted MBA
the chaos theory—a mix of passion and practicality, risk and reward," said Carl Horton (HBS MBA '95). His parents moved to Washington, DC, in 1978 to work for Jimmy Carter, Horton recalled, initiating his interest in politics. Over... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
Photographed by Susan Young; edited by Dan Morrell See full profiles and more photographs here. Claudio Haddad (OPM 12, 1987) Chairman, Insper Institute of Education and Research My parents were both teachers. They always told us that... View Details