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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
mind. “I was wrong,” he says. “HBS clarified what I was capable of doing and what I wanted to do.” Moving into Music Ferguson, 38, came of age at the dawn of hip-hop. “Our house was the place where all the neighborhood kids congregated,”...
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- 05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check
to the 6th century Why? In short, says Berman, the 1,500-year-old game makes kids smarter. (Berman’s own oldest son is ranked No. 11 in the country for his age group and his 6-year-old recently earned the No. 3 spot among kindergartners....
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Maureen Harmon
- 25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories
him. John Hess: I grew up in Perth, Amboy, New Jersey, so I’m a Jersey boy and I’m proud of it. My dad never went to college. He was the fourth of four kids and the first three siblings went to college. They had the money, the Depression...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)
play, there’s a high likelihood you’re going to try regular golf.” Up-and-comer: Aaron Wise, who signed with Callaway after winning the NCAA individual and team championships for the University of Oregon. Tee time: “I play every weekend, with a few exceptions, usually...
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Julia Hanna
- 10 Apr 2023
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Leading the Way
Illustration by Gisela Goppel Illustration by Gisela Goppel When Michael Trejo (MBA 2013) was a freshman at Arizona State University (ASU) in 2005, he almost lost his full scholarship. "I just really lacked direction, and needed to focus," says Trejo, who had a...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
offer kids perceived power, money, cars, and respect. They are business enterprises that reward and thrive on hard work, ingenuity, organization, and good mentoring. It’s the evil inverse of what’s taught at HBS.” A shade under six feet...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
center—moms who will no longer have to spend hours commuting each day, and who will return home in the evening to find their kids crafting projects using the 3D printer in the building’s Teen Shack. Despite the stop-work order, Dlodlo is...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Alumni Author: Thomas H. Fischgrund (MBA ’80)
score 1600? It is the top score. There are 138 questions on the test. You can miss one or two and still score 1600. What percentage of students score 1600? Each year, 2.3 million kids take the test and 650 score 1600 — that’s .03 percent!...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)
Above: photo by JJ Sulin My senior year of high school, I got a job as a teacher’s aide at an inner-city school in Hartford, Connecticut. I saw firsthand the difference between the education I was getting five miles away and the education those View Details
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April White
- 01 Jun 2009
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Shaking Up the System
founded BLS in 2004 and has been its principal ever since. A Teach For America alumnus, Sternberg insists on teachers and a curriculum that engage his students — youngsters from the neighborhood, who are not specially selected. “The kids...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
disenfranchised kids with him when he enrolled at Georgetown Law School, where he began working in the school's Juvenile Justice Clinic. "There is a tremendous need for people to understand how powerless View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 05 Aug 2015
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Nourishing the Next Generation
developed a lot of their food habits, yet,” Kohn says. “If you present them with healthy food options and there is good, positive peer pressure from their classmates, their teachers, and their families, these kids will try new things.”...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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John Read
65,000 children Outward Bound serves each year. He also works with Outward Bound schools and centers to ensure that their 750 wilderness courses — and scores of programs for corporate clients and kids in urban settings — are administered...
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- 18 Nov 2014
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Making the learning process fun for children
A passion for working in the entertainment industry to benefit children led Christina Hsu (MBA 2004) to the educational game company JumpStart, which develops new ways for kids to learn and have fun at the same time. (Published November...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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A Wider Net
of those aged 18 to 34, tied with basketball at 11 percent and trailing only football, and a recent Nielsen survey found that 55 percent of 16to-24-year old Americans were “interested” or “very interested” in soccer. That makes it harder to blame whatever digital...
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- 26 Feb 2008
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The Right Stuff at HBS
us who work at HBS, such gestures make us feel good about the place. Brighton kids and coach celebrate a job well done. Photos by Neal Hamberg The Brighton Bengals are an inner-city team. Its players take public transportation to practice...
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- 30 Mar 2015
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Raising the bar to provide quality education
it; it’s early days. It’s a very innovative model, but mostly we are setting the bar high because these kids deserve the same things that our own kids do.” (Published March 2015)
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- 23 Oct 2019
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After the Storm
mess. The work is already so hard. It’s a blessing to do it, I would not want to work in service to anyone else in terms of the communities of color that we serve in the community that we serve, but it’s tough. It’s really tough. Our kids...
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- 26 Jan 2017
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Turning Millennials into Leaders
alongside a team and asking that one simple question: ‘What can I do to help?’ “My career path that got me to become a leadership coach is, I took a year and moved to Africa and volunteered in an AIDS orphanage. And I absolutely loved it. I spent one year with View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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Hit Radio Show and HBS Alumni Help Young Classical Musicians
When you think of kids and music these days, it’s easier to imagine Chopin and Elgar spinning in their graves than getting any airtime. But move over, J.Lo — a classical music radio show, driven by youthful performers and listeners, is...
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