The Compounding Effect

In 1996, when I received my admission letter to the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (now Chicago Booth), a separate envelope arrived inviting me to apply for the Herman Family Fellowship for Women in Entrepreneurship. I cast it aside. I wasn’t an entrepreneur. I didn’t have time. Weeks later, tidying my tiny New […]

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Another Rodeo

My son Ian is officially a man of the world. Not simply in the “I’ve visited 34 countries” kind of way, but in the “I’ve actually lived in 34 countries” kind of way. Well, maybe not 34, but the list is genuinely impressive: A boy from Kansas heads off to Boston for college. Massachusetts again […]

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