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- 08 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
emphasized the quality of choice. When coming out, some folks choose to come out to their families first. However, as the oldest sibling of five and the first to go to college from my family, I felt a responsibility to be a role model to...
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- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
and three siblings during the Korean War. A bomb blast—friendly fire from US troops—killed everyone except Kim’s mother and her younger brother. The story is included in Offerings, Kim’s 2020 bestseller. In October 2023, news broke that...
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Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1) - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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Charles Ringling
Charles Ringling organized his siblings to form what would eventually become “the Greatest Show on Earth.” When the siblings began performing, they used only their personal talents, but under Charles’...
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Tom Doyle
faith and other traditions for trusting that our beliefs coalesce around recognizing and building what is good ...debt to my church for giving me a podium from which to preach ...debt to my siblings and friends for sharing the miracle of...
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Sacha Yabili
It was a jittery night of 1997, and shots ripped the sky as rebels walked toward my home town of Lubumbashi. Cowering on the ground with my siblings to shield against stray bullets, I wondered if I was passively living the epilogue of my...
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Onaizah Panhwar
up, I saw men take the ‘head of the family’ chair at the dinner table in most families. My parents, however, refused to believe in traditional gender roles. They taught me “you are our hope – you will stand for your siblings after us.” I...
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Jackie Bernhelm
strawberry season, and she had to stay at home to watch her little siblings while her parents worked in the fields. She started to miss school a lot. Like how it's hard to tell exactly when one season becomes the next, I don't know when...
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Adzmel Adznan
sweet aroma of glutinous rice and coconut milk slowly simmering in bamboos over open-pit fire. All around me, Mama and her siblings are busy tending to one cooking station after another, mixing spices and meat to the delight of my cousins...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
As the children of civil servants living in northern India, siblings Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019) and Namya Mahajan (HBS 2022) enjoyed educational advantages that millions of their lower-income peers did not—advantages such as high-quality...
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- 06 Sep 2016
- News
Connecting Past and Present
Family health was the impetus for Stanley Diamond (MBA 1958), founder of one of the world’s largest genealogy resources. “My family carries the beta thalassemia genetic trait,” a blood disorder. When my nephew was diagnosed, and we then learned that I and all of my...
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Mathew Turner
and affirmative action, so that if I am ever given a seat at those tables, I will seize the opportunity. I will usethose LEAD memoirs to remind me to strike the right professional and personal life balance so that I may raise a family in the same manner my parents...
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Sabina Robinov
My mother passed away when I was nine. As the oldest child, I spent my childhood taking care of my three young siblings while my dad worked tirelessly to provide for us. At an early age, my priorities became clear. I quickly learned to...
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Brian Elliot
rights, privileges, and protections my siblings and peers enjoy. I want to die an equal citizen of this country. "But if I am only for myself, then what am I?" Nearly three billion people live on less than $2 per day. I want to...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Priya Paul (OPM 28, 1999)
When Priya Paul (OPM 28, 1999) returned home to India after graduating from Wellesley College in 1988, her father suggested she try working at one of the family holding company’s three hotels. Two years later, when her father died unexpectedly, Paul, her mother, and...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Brief: Bargaining for Better
see their interactions with others in ways they could not before, and provided them with a set of skills to change those interactions. The training mimicked real-life situations, such as negotiating with parents or siblings over household...
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Jennifer Myers
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Rosita Najmi
ourselves in a new land, to balance hard work with self-improvement, and to help raise ourselves out of poverty. As I grew, I watched my siblings juggle multiple jobs and full-time schoolwork to ensure our survival. They taught me about...
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Rocio Parra
With a father who has a PhD in electrical engineering, and two older siblings who also pursued engineering degrees, it seemed only natural that Rocio Parra would continue the family's engineering tradition. "I always assumed that I...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Chai Ling
the West, Chai hopes a more favorable political climate will allow her to return home. Chai's leadership and organizational abilities were honed early. When she was ten, her mother and father, both military doctors, put her in charge of her two younger View Details
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The de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room | About
sibling rivalry, business ownership, corporate and governance structures, and communication between family members. The de Gaspé Beaubien family has strong ties with the School as the couple’s three children, Philippe III (MBA 1988),...
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