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- 20 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say
life goals and a path to achieve them. I would also never take back the opportunity to have my kids exposed to life living at HBS. What advice do you have for prospective HBS students? To consider what they want out of their MBA and...
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- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
than the players just because of all the things I just talked about. for me, baseball is just unique in its ability to connect people and bring people together. And so when you go to a game with your kids and they have that experience of...
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- 01 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
schools are closed in a majority of states, most child care services have ceased operations, and a majority of couples with school-age children both have jobs. "These working parents are logging on after the kids are asleep and answering...
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by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
- 07 Nov 2023
- News
Love and Money
around certain topics; and one is the money date. He recommends going out to dinner with your partner. You can do this around the dinner table with your kids or your grandkids as well. And each chapter in the book has a list of maybe 50...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
companies. A self-described latchkey kid raised in rural Ohio by a single parent, Lambert says her ascent was not an obvious trajectory. “There aren’t many mentors for women or people of color in technology or venture capital,” observes...
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Deborah Blagg
- 13 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Case Against Racial Colorblindness
The problem is that most of us naturally do notice each other's racial differences, regardless of our employer's policy. “Very early on kids get the message that they are not supposed to acknowledge that they notice people's race—often...
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by Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Adriann Dolphin
you grew up? A lawyer. I loved reading as a kid and I thought lawyers just spent all day reading. What is your favorite childhood memory? My father and I used to spend Saturdays window shopping at the mall. Growing up in a mixed-race,...
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Faculty & Advisors - MBA
and CEO of NOW Corp, a B2B payments company that enables businesses to get paid immediately with their NOWaccount® in a way that feels like accepting a credit card for payment when a card is not offered. She also founded Nourish, a patented line of spill-proof bottled...
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- Portrait Project
Kanwulia Gwam
The grass field in front of my apartment building became whatever us neighborhood kids needed it to be. On this cool summer afternoon, it became my laboratory, and the experiment was my identity. I was in fourth grade, and I’d spent the...
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- 30 May 2024
- News
How to Have Effective Conversations
congratulations, that's fantastic. Okay, here's the agenda, let's get down to business. But think about how powerful it is. If you just take half a second and you say like, oh, congratulations, that's awesome. What did it feel like watching your View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
present and trying not to be on the phone for every sports activity and event that my kids were doing. But I know I was distracted. I know I was. And I think if we all had to do it over again, I'd be putting a lot more time into that and...
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- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Again and Again
I’m realizing that we have a lot of these mini rituals in conversation, and they become very specific to individuals. There are things I would say to my wife or my kids that I would not say to you, but by the same token, things I would...
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- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
that some kids are just not college material, and thus contravening the script of the American dream,” says Fuller, who wrote the report along with Rachel Lipson, director of the Harvard Project on Workforce; Farah Mallah, a doctoral...
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by Michael Blanding
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
and step up to make the kind of dramatic change we need to have in our society. Neeley: You think this time is different? Frazier: I'm not sure. I hope it's different. I'll tell you a quick little story. I was on CNBC recently talking about this issue and my wife had a...
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- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
how to deal with a customer issue, they know who that person is and how they are partnered with you. NOTE: For those considering cofounders who ARE your partner/family member/BFF, I encourage you to enter with a mindset around taking a personal partnership from no...
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by Julia Austin
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
is devoted to his family. Brennan often says he’s the luckiest person in the world, but it’s clear that his success involves considerable amounts of intelligence, hard work, and ambition. A middle-class kid whose early jobs included...
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Susan Young
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
on where my kids went to school, was what drove a lot of these expectations and missed expectations, and, therefore, anger. And so as I kind of try and peel the onion on all this stuff, it is very, very difficult to pull back if you have...
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- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
it’s ending a relationship, changing a job or transitioning from a household of kids to an empty nest. When it comes to our employment, we have our last day at an old job on a Friday and start our new job on Monday, perhaps taking a week...
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by Julia Austin
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS
of the lessons that comes to mind was Clay would always say "never outsource parenting." And that's one thing I'm proud to say that I have not done. So I've been in the pool for an hour every day for six years, teaching my kids to swim....
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