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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Editor’s Letter
In 1984, I took my babysitting money to the Sam Goody store at the Short Hills Mall and purchased a copy of Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A., on LP. It was the best-selling album of the year and, for a kid growing up in New Jersey, not owning it was unthinkable.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
gather for their weekly Wednesday sessions. The apprentice program pairs nine high school students with the nine fellows—an exercise in “possibility thinking,” as Student Program Manager Jay Kemp describes it. The kids see firsthand what... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
beaten play for the championship. In effect, an adults-only paperwork controversy cost the kids a championship of their own. Fortunately, Swearengin noted, “The team all told me they felt like champions, which, for a coach, is a great... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Making Lives Better
predicted. It's a long-term goal, but daughter Jodie, who is now 16, motivates her mother every day. "I'm helping her, and all the kids and adults like her, to have a better future. I'm fortunate that I went to business school and I can... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
Boston. And had had the experience when I was a kid of working at my father's pharmacy. which was this place where people came together across generations, knew each other's families across race and culture, a variety of elements of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Christian University, he was not only TCU’s first African American basketball player but also the first in the entire Southwest Conference. In 1975, about the same time a kid named Bill Gates opened a shoestring operation called... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
via correspondence course and enrolled at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. “Antioch was a hotbed of students who did it their way,” says HBS Dean Jay Light, a native Ohioan whose first HBS class was taught by Levitt. “It was a very creative, independent sort of... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
invest in the educational and professional potential of men and women whose young lives were spent as migrant farm workers. Living by the cycle of fruit harvests, a basic education for these kids was often out of reach or incomplete, and... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
their wings; they circle the world and spend months at sea. Why did you sail this race? I started sailing in Marblehead, Massachusetts, as a kid and have always loved it. I’m severely asthmatic, on four medications a day, so the clean air... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
strengthened the charter public school laws, provided funding for facilities, and lowered to 55 percent the threshold required to pass a local school bond. The net result is that over ten years, a million kids can graduate from new,... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
by this terrible disease. Your total physical manifestation is affected by this. You lose the ability to walk. You lose the ability to move your hands, to pick things up, to feed yourself. You know, imagine that. Imagine a little kid... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
without reading it, which I thought was the homework assignment, and I did not want to get my homework wrong. It was simple as that. And so I got to class on the day that we were supposed to turn it in, and I watched all these kids walk... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
executive leadership committee, it was not normal for someone to say ‘Can we start the meeting at nine o’clock, because I want to drop the kids at school?’ I have worked to normalize that and to build a culture where people are... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
children who have the infantile/juvenile form of Pompe's will be able to establish a separate enzyme replacement clinical study at North Shore University Hospital in New York during the first quarter of 1999. "Without this funding," notes Crowley, "these View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
also working on ways to help nonprofits. Currently reading Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Nonzero, a book about applying game theory to the advancement of society. Hope for your kids That they grow up to fulfill their own... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
Matrix Partners.) “I moved to Boston because my four kids were in New England; they moved away almost immediately,” Hellman jokes. “So I moved back to San Francisco and decided I’d better get a real job.” By all accounts, being chairman... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
education. For Zaikos, Intrinsic is personal, having spent most of her life in Chicago and raised her own kids there. She’s passionate about making the city better, she says, and knows education is one of the primary ways to improve it.... View Details
- 30 Nov 2019
- News
Land of the Rising Scrum
kids, and now the grandkids and a few tag-along couples who just watch,” said Debbie Avery, wife of Tom Avery (MBA 1977). “Our kids play in the games and the grandchildren are in training.” The adventure found the group touring Tokyo, Mt.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
and another “yes” to a couple who wanted to bring a boy with special needs home from Asia. “These families are not wealthy – they have very little in cash savings – but they have enormous hearts and decided this kid is their kid,” says... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
Women Returners, which helps professional women in the United Kingdom go back to work after extended career breaks. “When my mom became very seriously ill, I had to devote my time to caring for her. The thing that was easiest to drop was the career. I had young View Details