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- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
don’t lead with their successes. Obviously, when you’re quite young, you’re writing college essays for yourself and you need to tout the amazing things about yourself. This is necessary when you’re younger and don’t really have anyone to... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
building leadership skills and working relationships as it was about building businesses. Planning the program for Spring Break would give students time to dedicate solely to fleshing out their business ideas from concept to product... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- News
Don’t Send Your Kids to College. At Least Not Yet.
the rich resources and opportunities colleges have to offer? The research, Falik argues, is “undeniable.” A recent Middlebury study showed that students who take a year off before arriving outperform their... View Details
- 08 Dec 2014
- News
Creating career paths for underserved young adults in Atlanta
participate annually in the program, which offers hands-on skills development, corporate internships, and college credits. Within four months of completing Year Up, 85 percent of the participants will work full time earning at least $16... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Creativity and Innovation
Professor Dianne Taylor-Gearing (GMP11, 2011) is president of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. In this video, she talks about how the school encourages students to blend the creative... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
four-year colleges.” Raised in a low-income community in southern New Jersey, Huebner experienced firsthand the difference in her public school college preparation with that of her fellow students at the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
most part, failed or even backfired (see chart on facing page). Nonetheless, the reform debate is fully engaged, and not just inside the Beltway. At HBS, a group of MBAs last spring crafted and sent to Washington a bold proposal to create an nonprofit, public-private... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Opening Doors
and the Herbert J. Bachelor (MBA 1968) Fellowship, which honors Jeannie’s father, a Harvard College graduate who was the first in his family to attend college — and creates a challenge fund designed to... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
A man on a mission
and physics at Cleveland community colleges at night while his career took off at the space agency’s Glenn Research Center during the day. “I felt such an obligation to those teachers who had helped me, and one way I could pay them back... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
collaborated with doctors and college students to produce information on sexual and mental health topics that was both accurate and interesting to young women. But as the Confi team talked with View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
the job to be done, you have to organize in a very different way than if you're just selling furniture. And hence, a company that is selling sub-par furniture to the low end of humanity, people we call college students. Nobody can copy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Sound Bites: A Degree of Hope
Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) President and CEO, the Strada Education Foundation Illustration by John S. Dykes I grew up as the son of a single mother in rural Mississippi. And while we were never legally poor, there was that sense of economic insecurity the whole way. And... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
success over the course of their lives. And the seminal study, the Gallop Purdue Index, identified that far more important than where you go to college in your life outcome is how you approach the experience. And, specifically, they found... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
That in the 2012 election in Massachusetts when it was Barack Obama versus Mitt Romney, and when it was Elizabeth Warren versus Scott Brown. So you look at those elections, you think that everybody would vote. Something like 28% of View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
capitalization. “The Valley of Death” The many faces of Andy Grove, from left: hobnobbing in black tie with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at a celebration of Time magazine’s 75th anniversary (1998); on the really big board in Times Square 2000); hanging out at the City... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
educational service. Since his retirement, Earls has been an executive in residence at Cleveland State University's Monte Ahuja College of Business, where he lectures on ethical issues and recruits promising View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Professor Thomas Kennedy Remembered
became a full-time visiting professor at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where students established the Thomas Kennedy Outstanding Teacher Award in his honor. He also remained active as an... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
Educational Travel, now with 25 employees in Cuba and in the United States, is a true family business. Gordon is a managing director, along with Michael and Collin Laverty and one of Collin’s college friends, Adam Linderman. In the early... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 10 Oct 2024
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
next 5 years. By the time that first group of students turned 18, Can Do had doubled its scholarship promise, affording each of the graduating seniors access to $2,000 for their future pursuits as well as an additional $5,000 to View Details