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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
- 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
- 24 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
Advice for Prospective Latino Students
I was born in Mexico and moved to California when my parents decided they wanted to build a better life for our family. From the age of five, my new home was Fresno, California - a large city in the Central Valley where I was surrounded... View Details
- 07 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
From Teach for America – to HBS – and Back Again
impressed upon me that education was the only thing you could take with you when leaving a country in the middle of the night. Even with that sage advice, she and both of my parents had never attained more... View Details
- 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
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
that mixing one full serving of vegetables with chocolate milk could disguise the vegetable taste, creating a creamy chocolate milk shake that could offer parents a sneaky way to deliver vegetable nutrition to their kids. Sneakz Organic... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
forcing the Cohen family to leave with only one suitcase each. His mother’s British citizenship enabled the Cohens to resettle in London. “My parents were not broken by what happened in Egypt,” he says.... 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
- 16 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
Out of PE, Into Africa
bonding experience. Our hope is that this will give us perspective and a foundation to dampen the inevitable conflicts of our upcoming adolescent parenting years.A few thoughts if you are considering such a trip: Just do it! It's easy to... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books A Bend in the Stars by Rachel Barenbaum (MBA 2004) Grand Central Publishing In Russia, in the summer of 1914, as war with Germany looms, Miri Abramov and her brilliant physicist brother, Vanya, are facing an impossible decision.... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Women, Work, and the "M" Word
embarrassing to have parents host these stigma-free dialogues in front of my peers. I was envious that their parental conversations never involved the phrase “during my urogynecology rotation.” In my later... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Chai Ling
given me freedom, but I've had to leave behind my family, friends, and home.'" Undaunted, she enrolled at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School, where she earned a master's degree, and later worked as a consultant for three years at Bain. She... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
Global Business Book Award in 1997, and The Innovator’s Solution (2003). His latest book, Seeing What’s Next, will be published this month. Christensen has been active in church and community affairs throughout his career. He and his wife, Christine, are the View Details
- 15 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS
person in my family to leave Puerto Rico to attend an Ivy League school. I ask myself: “Do I belong here? Can I actually succeed? Why do I deserve this opportunity?” Fast forward to August 2019. Ten years have passed and now I’m standing... View Details
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
team. She envisioned a long career in the field but instead found herself in quasi-retirement at age 35. “Life has a way of getting in the way,” she notes. Melcher’s first child, Katie, struggled in preschool with learning disabilities, and Melcher made the decision to... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
and days when you feel like you are invincible. On those rough days, try to take some time to decompress and to get some space from the business. I find that leaving and unplugging from technology for a few hours usually does the trick."... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
provide the tools and services that will help older adults live longer, healthier lives. Investing in Experience Abby Miller Levy was motivated to start a venture fund in the older-adult sector after discovering a dearth of options for her View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
pleased with her dual role as a parent and a key player in getting this particular dot-com off to a running start. "I can't imagine a better place to understand the dynamics of the Internet," she says. "We've built a fairly complex site... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 26 May 2016
- News
Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
filmmakers know they have a problem. Emotion comes easily to him—at the mention of his deceased parents as well as when he talks about his wife of 33 years, Cindy, and their two daughters. “The girls are our biggest accomplishment,” he... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young