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- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
second company, SynapDx, launched in 2009 while he was still at HBS, is developing a blood test for early diagnosis of autism. "With autism, there is a small window of opportunity," he says. "If you can give a parent a diagnosis when the View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608151 Quanta Computer and the One Laptop Per Child Initiative Harvard Business School Case 608-102 When Quanta Computer, Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of laptop... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
involved here, and we need to take care of that. We also need to decide whether reproduction is some sort of human right or whether infertility is a medical condition. If the answer is yes to either of those, then we should pay for it, as... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
especially for early education care providers given social distancing, the lower numbers of kids that can be in the classroom, the cleaning protocols, etc. SY: Are there any silver linings in this difficult time? JP: I feel like it's a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
impacts on the working women of Canada: More women than men left careers as schools shut down to care for families. Twice as many women as men applied for Canada’s child care... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
child and wants to be there for your child. And at the same time, you are a fully committed, diligent, and dedicated member of the team or member of your organization, a top-flight professional who gets the job done, and who’s working... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
mothers who were employed tend to be more successful in the workplace than those raised by mothers who weren’t employed. Men whose mothers were employed spend more time caring for family members. “There’s a lot of parental guilt about... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
European consumer products business. In her first Bulletin interview in 1983, Dodi envisioned the future ideal of "a pregnant CEO of a corporation walking into a board meeting" while her other child was down the hall in daycare. But she... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
understand why there are so many diarrhea-related fatalities in developing countries. (Diarrheal diseases account for one in nine child deaths worldwide, according to the Center for Disease Control.) This, despite the existence of an... 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
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
be careful not to prompt the interviewees into saying what they want to hear—a common error that wreaks havoc with the results of customer surveys and interviews. Reserve your best customer-communication efforts for the areas well inside... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)
progress in malaria elimination1 is certainly something to celebrate, there is still a lot of work to do. Nearly every minute, a child under five years of age dies from malaria2. Many of these deaths are preventable, so it is imperative... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
Lynda Clarizio Every woman who works and has a life confronts unique challenges, from finding reliable and caring childcare to making time to nurture the relationship with their spouse or partner to fighting their own guilt and... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
won’t be lost such as highly personalized services such as child care until I considered that my 2 year-old grandson can operate iPhones, computers, and other electronic devices which means he’ll soon have... View Details
- Portrait Project
Mohit Bathija
I, a diminutive nine year-old child of nothing but skin and bones ... View Details
- 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
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
losing teams have star players, but those players often play for themselves, for their own statistics and career, and don’t really care whether their team actually wins games, as I showed in my book Confidence: How Winning Streaks and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
great-grandmother had her first child at age 17 and had twin boys at age 49. If you keep that in mind, you can see why it’s not always possible for cousins to find each other when their parents or grandparents emigrated to the United... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken