Child Rights - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2013
News

Five Bright Ideas

17, 1991) Its schools are found in some of the world's toughest neighborhoods—in Iraq, India, and the United States—because SABIS and its president, Carl Bistany, believe every child deserves a chance. SABIS is a for-profit education... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management

that, although this approach greatly simplifies the life of the researcher, it is incomplete and distorting. We make an analogy between new business formation and child rearing: starting the task requires only a moment of enthusiasm, but... View Details

Keywords: by Howard H. Stevenson & Teresa M. Amabile

01 Jun 2008
News

Kash Rangan

took care of 1,000 children at a cost of $80 a child, which is less than $120 a child spent by comparable organizations. Even that amount of reporting would be very useful, but it is not the norm. By and large the reporting focuses on the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

03 Dec 2024
News

Magic Numbers

numbers. In truth, she argues, there’s no such thing as a “math kid,” and everyone is capable of numeracy, with the right support. That’s the message of her first book, Math Mind: The Simple Path to Loving Math, published in August 2024... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

15 May 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Women Find New Path to Work

women in the room who said, "I'm ready." Their last child was going off to school in the fall. "I want the tools to figure out what I'm qualified to do, and what I want to do. How do I locate the View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

01 Dec 1999
News

Q & A: Herb Kohl

they don't contribute. My support for young people cuts across a broad spectrum - from supporting a balanced budget amendment so we won't pass our debt on to them, to things more traditionally thought of as kids' issues: Head Start, education, View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

found a balance that works most of the time: My husband does the morning drop-off, and I do the afternoon pickup, although it’s a precarious balance that is easily thrown off by a child getting sick or an elderly parent needing help. In... View Details

Profile

Scott Wu

little bit of help could make a big difference, and everybody just needs a chance.” Wu got his start in international aid work early. After getting his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth, he worked on development projects in Tanzania and with a center combating View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Technology

Web

Diversity | Employment

Since 1896, HSSPA has provided a way to make friends and enjoy a sense of belonging within the Harvard community. HSSPA sponsors outings, social events, and playgroups. Thinking about day care options? Harvard has a wide variety of child... View Details

15 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

people, including those who've been recently unemployed, to create a cohort of testers, screeners, and contact tracers that could help build the infrastructure to respond to the crisis and deal with some of the unemployment that we are seeing View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

20 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Leadership In Challenging Times: Thierry Ibri (MBA 1997)

rescue, transportation – as ‘feeding the line’ because it’s meeting acute hunger needs across our 59-county region in Minnesota and western Wisconsin. We also work to ‘shorten the line’ (prevent need for emergency hunger services) through our View Details

21 Mar 2016
Blog Post

MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business

entrepreneur should think about holistically? HBS truly exceeded my expectations, and this is when the parent child reference became well suited. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the case method; putting oneself in a... View Details

Profile

Ruzwana Bashir

knew I wanted to work with smart people and learn about how to build a business.” After graduating, Bashir moved to London, joined Goldman Sachs and later the Blackstone Group with the intention of a career in finance. But the entrepreneurial itch she felt as a... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Alumni Achievement Awards

whatever is burdening me at that moment, I just need to walk up to that altar and lay it right there—and don’t pick it up again. The number one criterion when I’m choosing someone to mentor is will that person do this for somebody... View Details

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

group! There are organizations that can provide important links in almost every major metropolitan area, so if a women really wants to raise venture capital, and she's in the right industry, she has the View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

15 Nov 2024
News

Driving Change

thought were well behind us as well as some brand-new ones we may never have imagined: laws that limit women’s right to access reproductive health care and brazen attacks on principals of equity, equality, and social justice,” Ely said... View Details

21 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: December 21

PublicationsHas the Shift to Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Promoted Technology Transfer, FDI, and Industrial Development? Authors:Lee Branstetter, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi Publication:The WIPO Journal: Analysis and Debate... View Details

18 Mar 2019
Blog Post

"It's important to have a compelling story:" Jodi Glickman on being Great on the Job

and why what you're doing is compelling, innovative, transformational, etc. Don't worry so much about having the right skill set, it's more important that you have a compelling story — which we'll talk about in the webinar. What is the... View Details

03 Jun 2020
News

Keeping a Community Connected

to food sites because of their immigration status. There is a high demand for food and it is going up quickly. SY: What are your top priorities at this point? JP: The demand for food is a critical need right now. There's a moratorium on... View Details