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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
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
- 24 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
Advice for Prospective Latino Students
American life, while maintaining my Mexican traditions through large family gatherings, tamales & pasteles, and a drive to chase the American dream. As the oldest of four children, I aspired to be a role model for my siblings and to...
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- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
volunteering. My siblings and I started volunteering at a very young age and I've continued to do so my whole life," she says. At All Souls, an Upper East Side feeding program for the neighborhood's neediest families, Garrett has done...
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- 05 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Addressing Unmet Needs in Health Care Using an MBA
interested in health care. My parents were physicians and my siblings are physicians and hence I grew up influenced by health care. Working in health care provides significant opportunities to make a positive difference in lives of...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely...
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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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- 24 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
The Latin American Community at HBS
randomly placed in a group of 1,800 students, we found our place together. Strangely, no section, no discussion group, no border, or lifelong rivalry were obstacles to the creation of this big family. As in any traditional one, we all come with a load of personal...
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- 02 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Spending on Happiness
our siblings or in-laws any less difficult to deal with over the course of the following year. ) Although people believe that having money leads to happiness, our research suggests that this is only the case if at least some of that money...
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- 23 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
A Lifelong Friendship: From Classmates in Cameroon to Roommates at HBS
through my parents showed me the value of hard work and determination. They always inspired me to have big, bold dreams and to value my education as something that no one can take away from me. I am the oldest of four siblings and family...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)
this day, the two siblings remain "very close," says Wasserstein, who readily defers to his sister's fame. "More often than not," he says affectionately, "I'm just known as Wendy's brother." After finishing his undergraduate studies at...
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- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
record of achievement. All four children completed the HBX CORe program, three simultaneously in the 2014 pilot cohort. What makes this family unique, however, is that they represent a microcosm of what HBX CORe offers. Each sibling is...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
Photo courtesy Andrea Silbert As a child growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts, Andrea C. Silbert (MBA/MPA 1992) never hesitated when asked what she was going to be when she grew up. Like her parents, she and her three siblings expected...
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- 26 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Black Excellence: AASU’s 2019 Fall Retreat in Review
Attendees continued to share stories throughout the day in small group discussions on topics ranging from personal fears, family relationships, proud moments, regrets, and future goals. "We covered a handful of topics, notably, View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
studies so that they only have to work 15 to 20 hours a week instead of 60 to 70 hours. It is not unusual for a CCRI student to go to a job at night, take care of their niece and nephew the next morning so that their sibling can work,...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Turning Point: Ready or Not
older than me. I leaned on my grandmother when I separated and divorced; I frantically called one of my uncles or my father when I had good news to share. I listened when my great-uncle told me how my great-great-grandfather had walked from Afghanistan to India, and...
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- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
capture an audience most completely. That is the most gratifying feeling.” Jim McNerney (MBA 1975) Retired Chairman, The Boeing Company “I was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the oldest of five. I don’t know if there’s something to birth order or not, but my View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
would be least disruptive to her advancement as a financial analyst. As she emphasized in her earlier Bulletin interviews, she has also depended on a family network comprising her and her husband's parents and siblings to "share the...
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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
Children learning remotely often have to rely on parents or a sibling for help. The pandemic has caused the largest disruption of education systems in history, affecting more than one billion learners in more than 190 countries, according...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 03 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
9 Lessons from the Class of 2019
grew up in a house in Pakistan with nine siblings where she learned how to have productive conversations despite opposing views. Maha brought this experience from her dinner table to the case method and to the pursuit of her joint degree...
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- 09 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads
of two new products from Pepsico, Doritos Blaze snacks and Mountain Dew Ice soda. Each had an attention-getting star—Peter Dinklage of “Game of Thrones” fame and Morgan Freeman, respectively. Each had attention-holding content, with the stars mouthing popular rap...
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