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- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
Morales, who now serves as marketing and communications manager at Year Up in the Bay Area, and Michelle Smith-Howard, who worked as director of early learning at DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative and is now director of early childhood... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
skyscrapers stifle most breezes and often divert the wind, my constant companion in west Texas, where I grew up. Even with decades of city living behind me, most of my recollections involve the wind shaping the twists and turns in my complex and messy maturation from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
have suddenly become an alternative investment vehicle pursued by high-end investors and hedge funds. Will this phenomenon last? Time to Sell Those Sports Cards follows a personal trip to market as author John Schwarz turns a childhood... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
university in Warsaw. The SB officers wanted to recruit Maj as an informer among the student ranks. Teenaged Maj was not an activist. He had spent his childhood in a small town about 50 kilometers outside Kraków, far from the workers’... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
weekly Tupper Lake Free Press about an idea for a regional nature museum in the heart of his beloved Adirondack Mountains, he picked up the phone. Clifford, who still goes by his childhood nickname “Obie” when he’s in Upstate New York,... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
house in York for us to live in. So this started a very happy childhood in York. JH: Growing up, Bob and his brother had an outdoorsy childhood, riding their bikes and playing in the fields and creeks near town. But Wilson was also pretty... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
academic and life teachers who opened my eyes to what could be accomplished through science and innovation,” Blum says. “This was a way I could pay that back.” Having spent his childhood in the mountains of North Carolina, Blum is a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
Roberts Illustration by PJ Loughran Carter Roberts (MBA ’88) traces his enchantment with nature back to his early childhood in Atlanta, where he roamed a backyard forest and discovered a fascinating world of creatures under rotting logs.... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
death made the next big VC deal or M&A transaction seem much less important. Instead, Friedman reoriented his life, focusing more on philanthropy—and also getting back into one of his favorite childhood pursuits: motorcycle riding.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
injuries, novice mistakes, and the heartbreaking loss of a best friend. When breast cancer threatens her own life, she seeks solace and recovery in the wild. Her quest takes 10 years. Regardless of the need since childhood to feel... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
program at MIT. I feel very fortunate to have benefited from great educational institutions throughout my life. Perhaps the most important thing to share about my childhood is that my father was an extraordinary inspiration to me. In many... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
slowdown." Candace Bond Candace Bond (MBA '92) recalls one of her earliest childhood memories: watching a stack of 45s spin on her parents' record player and dancing to the music of artists such as Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Jackson... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
his eyes were still red. Everyone had assumed his eyes were red because he had been crying. But the nurse wondered if Kevin might have Kawasaki disease, a rare childhood illness that can harm the coronary arteries, and whose symptoms... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
Hajim (MBA 1964) and Glenn Plaskin Skyhorse On the Road Less Traveled is the story of Edmund Hajim, an American financier and philanthropist who rises from dire childhood circumstances to achieve professional success and personal... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
pay phones in Tanzania - and recently won a bid to become Ghana's Second National Operator. A Liberian national who spent much of her childhood in English boarding schools, Maddy holds foreign service and economics degrees from Georgetown... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
serving as a volunteer football coach at Western Maryland College, a student complained to him that there were "no opportunities left in America." A survivor of childhood poverty who became a millionaire by age 35 through nursing-home and... View Details