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Megan Maloney

only is the park incredible, but the people are even better! As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? I wanted to be a famous singer. Then when my sibling told me I couldn’t sing (as all siblings do), I wanted to be a cardiologist (also didn’t work out).... View Details

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

systemic change in K–12 education. Publications Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Theresa Molina, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo January 2024 | Economic Journal Can investing in children who faced adverse... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Come Sail Away

When Michael Sard (MBA 2018) arrived at HBS, he owned about 50 Hawaiian shirts. “It was one of the few items in a man’s closet that could have a ritual to it around going out, like a tuxedo does,” he says. Purchase options, however, seemed limited to two extremes:... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; manufacturing; career path; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Magashe Ngoepe

community and stay looking for ways to grow deeper friendships with those in my existing community. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A lawyer. I always wanted to stand in a court and defend people and send bad guys to jail. What is your favorite... View Details

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Tory Voight

elementary school to hide our circumstances. My modest childhood was encapsulated by multiple service jobs and the hope I could achieve “more” than what I was born into. Yet gaining upward mobility as a first-gen student was not as simple... View Details

18 Feb 2020
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A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

other to tell a story about. Around 10:00 PM, we neared my childhood home. The lights were still on. I asked Angeli if she wanted to knock on the door and see who lived there. Anyone may have hesitated. But Ang got out of the car, and... View Details

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Molly Welch

your favorite childhood memory? Riding home from school with my sisters in Cairo, listening to LFO. Who is one person from your life that you admire the most today? My parents! They have a combined more than 50 years of public service... View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

first-semester RC applies to everyday problems. Leveraging the Biology of Adversity and Resilience to Strengthen the Foundations of Human Capital Development Professor Jack P. Shonkoff + More Info – Less Info This session will explore how 21st-century biology could... View Details

04 Dec 2023
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My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

in October, and texting everyone I knew about it. “There’s no way this is a real job,” I joked with my friends. You get paid to live and work in a national park? Doing management consulting? No way. As a native Californian and landscape photographer, so many of my... View Details

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Bridgette Slater

I should add attorney to this list. What is your favorite childhood memory? Watching movies with my grandmother. She and I have a dream to one day visit Prince Edward Island in Canada together because we love the Anne of Green Gables... View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

Springs Industries, Inc., Telsat Canada, Bell Canada, and Teradyne Inc. He was a founding board member of the Canada Development Investment Corporation and a member of the Task Force on the Future of the Canadian Financial Services Sector. View Details

2021
Working Paper

The Business of K-12 Education in China

By: Geoffrey Jones and Yuhai Wu

This working paper examines the evolution of K-12 education in China, especially between 1985 and the present day, drawing extensive interviews with participants in the educational sector. China has been hugely successful in reaching almost 100 percent literacy,... View Details

Keywords: K-12 Education; China; Real Estate; Early Childhood Education; Performance Evaluation; Teaching; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Nonprofit Organizations; Private Sector; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry; China

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Shara Ticku

really lost, I realized, was the chance to view life through my father’s eyes. I lost the chance to hear about his childhood in Kashmir, his perspective on the future of science, his favorite zinger from last night’s Jon Stewart episode.... View Details

19 May 2022
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HKS Policy Analysis Exercise Showcase

April 26, students presented projects focused on a range of topics—female representation in the start-up ecosystem, anticipating climate disasters in Yemen, a community-based approach to early childhood education in Brazil, analyzing... View Details

25 Jan 2024
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Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

the best means of driving climate change – fast enough – to make a real dent in CO2 emissions. “Climate technology has been my fascination since high school.” – Hilton Augustine III Both of Hilton Augustine III’s (HBS MBA 2021) parents are engineers, and they... View Details

04 May 2021
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Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

racial discrimination, division, and tension, all of which I find upsetting and unfortunate. While some people accept racism as a sad reality, I have seen in my childhood that it does not need to be this way, and I feel compelled to do... View Details

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Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment

Health Climate change is predicted to be responsible for 250,000 additional deaths each year between 2030 and 2050 as the result of heat exposure among the elderly, childhood undernutrition, malaria, and other diseases exacerbated by... View Details

12 Oct 2017
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Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

complete his master’s degree in Religion in Public Life later in 2017 and is looking forward to activities “that merge my passions for community development work, business, and ministry.” A comprehensive thesis on overcoming childhood... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

07 Apr 2020
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What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

brands and/or brands that have managed to nurture strong consumer-brand relationships prior to the crisis. The cocooning behavior promoted by shelter-in-place orders may encourage a return to brands that were trusted childhood favorites... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

the government of Angola on foreign direct investment. That experience, coupled with childhood memories of the painful structural adjustment programs foisted on Cameroon by the IMF (her own mother lost her job due to austerity-induced... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

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