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- 22 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers
different loans, and they can be duped into choosing the wrong ones,” Di Maggio says. “But if 10 years from now one of these kids gets an employment shock and loses a job and they want to file for bankruptcy, the student loans don’t go...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams
It’s a manager’s nightmare: A customer pulls into a drive-thru after a long day at work with children in tow, everyone looking frazzled and famished. After waiting patiently in line, the customer grabs her bag of burgers through the window and happily zips away—until...
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- 07 Jul 2022
- HBS Case
How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)
financial security and pursuing a dream, according to podcast interviews cited in the first case. Cuscuna insisted on moving forward, saying in interviews that she “didn’t want her kids to have a miserable father.” She reflected later...
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by Pamela Reynolds
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
Foundation in honor of Ann S. Moore (MBA 1978) on the occasion of her retirement as chairman and CEO of Time Inc. Moore joined Time Inc. in 1978, serving in key positions at several publications, including founding publisher of Sports Illustrated for View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
seem to get past, no matter how qualified and reformed a job candidate may seem. It’s time for business leaders to rethink their hiring practices and start giving the formerly incarcerated more opportunities to prove themselves, the authors say. Miller’s incredible...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who...
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- 19 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022
Tell Kids to ‘Work Hard,’ Do They Send the Wrong Message? It takes more than grit to succeed in a world rife with systemic inequity. So why don't we tell children that? Research by Ashley Whillans and colleagues shows how honest talk...
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by Danielle Kost
- Web
Partners and Families - MBA
. “The whole community, including faculty and HBS staff, is incredibly welcoming. My classmates have gone out of their way to make our two kids feel right at home.” Jonathan Jardine MBA 2014 MBA Voices Moving to the U.S. With a Family MBA...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
all-providing creatures may have physically left a while back, but they seem to be metaphorically returning in droves. Hopefully, I will help steer a herd or two back to Montana. 2023 I left HBS with a mission. As a kid from a rural area...
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- 22 May 2024
- HBS Case
Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore
There are limits on when kids can use the application. The content is required to promote objectives of the government. There are significant penalties for not following regulations. As a result, the system becomes a powerful tool to...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
earlier in the week. The father initially wondered if this was just the “fever effect,” a phenomenon of behavioral improvements noted by some parents of children with ASD when their kids have fevers, which he had previously observed in...
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Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 18 Oct 2023
- News
Spreading the Words
a recent visit to a school in Pakistan. “These kids who are self-learning are just palpably, tangibly more confident,” he says. “They’re not just doing better in English and math and Urdu; they’re doing better in science, too.” But a few...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Change
organized a trip to Japan for her classmates; two later moved to the country. “They loved the trip so much, they came to Japan after graduation. They got jobs, they found partners, they got married, they have kids now. These trips change...
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- 18 Mar 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: LEGO
be combined. Thomke's experience goes back a long way—as a kid growing up in Germany he participated in a LEGO competition. As an adult, though, his interests lie more in the business behind the bricks. "When you've written many...
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- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
there can be a lot of barriers,” she says. “The one thing that keeps kids coming to school is a connection—it might be an adult on campus or an activity they’re in.” Everyone shows up for pickleball day. Courtesy of the Play for Life...
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- 05 Oct 2023
- News
On the Move: Massimo (Max) Magni (MBA 2003)
a favorite Thanksgiving Day parade float? The picture that I'm about to show you, my team here found it in the archives and they're making a huge poster to put just behind me. It’s Goofy, and this is my [high school] band in front of it. So that has to be my favorite...
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Retail Trade
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Skydeck - Alumni
Rothrock (MBA 1988) —they should prepare for it. The Promise of Personalized Medicine Rich Horgan (MBA 2018) is on an urgent mission to save his brother—and he might just revolutionize drug development along the way Bridging the Gap Global Citizen Year founder Abby...
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- Portrait Project
Adan Acevedo
civil war. I want to elevate stories from underrepresented groups that need to be told on the big screen and give kids from low-income neighborhoods the opportunity to achieve their wildest dreams – dreams that fly so low that you could...
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- 30 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do
to consider which of two charities should receive a $100 donation: Kids Korps USA, an organization aimed at engaging young people in volunteerism, or charity: water, which brings clean drinking water to people in developing nations. The...
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by Carmen Nobel