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- 01 Jun 2014
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Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
Fariborz Ghadar (MBA 1972, DBA 1976) could have walked away from the American dream at any point. It could have been the moment his fraternity brothers at MIT decided they couldn't pronounce his name and called him "Bob." It could have...
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Maureen Harmon
- 26 Jun 2017
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Behind the Scenes at an HBS Short Program
value of taking time for reflection. “But we weren’t just doing case studies about businesses winning or failing. We discussed dreams and family too,” he says. “Do you want cash or do you want to be king at home? Are you a success if you...
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- 16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany
the energy technology of the future were largely, early inspirations and dreams 20 years ago. And now, are competitive in increasing parts of the world. And so, what was an entrepreneur's dream or an...
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- 26 Feb 2014
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The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
pursue your dream career; I'm in NY.'). "After a lot of introspection, I realized that I was truly passionate about entrepreneurship; and even in the hardest moments, when I was facing the wall in difficult operational and financing...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Just Keep Our Money
money. But refunds are many families’ best opportunity to put away a few dollars for their children and their futures. For the past three years, a team comprising researchers, the nonprofit Doorways to Dreams Fund (which I cofounded),...
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- 17 May 2018
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Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
how it has emboldened them to consider stating a business, which they could never have dreamed of,” he says, adding that I Create has been awarded the “best partner” award by NFTE two years in a row. But the organization still faces...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2009
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Robert Goodwin
Borders, and Goodwin led a group of his classmates to make the dream a reality. Why did you decide to become the CEO of Executives Without Borders? In my time overseas, I witnessed extreme poverty but saw few working on solutions that...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
of my living room in Carlsbad, California. It is she—the beautiful female figure who ignited my dream so many years ago. I continue to work virtually with organizations that nurture and promote the new arts of Cambodia and the Southeast...
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- 27 Aug 2019
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A Shot at Success
Division I college coaches, she had to get inventive. “I made a homemade highlight tape,” Feickert recalls. She sent the video, set to cheesy pump-up music, to the nation’s top basketball programs. Soon, the coaches she dreamed of playing...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2008
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Alumni Books
Are Like Shampoo by Brenda Bence (MBA ’91) (Global Insight Communications) The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream by Christopher B. Leinberger (MBA ’76) (Island Press) We Are One. Adjust!: A Handbook of Understanding to...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Ink
start chatting at la Couarde A la Pergo c’est l’apèro> At the Pergola it’s time for drinks Ils se tutoient à Loix They’re on first name terms at Loix La fille en Ré, elle l’a fait rêver The girl from Ré, she made him dream La fille en Ré,...
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- 01 Jan 2011
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Peter Harf, MBA 1974
high-performance, nonprofit company driven by an impossible dream and a strong culture," says Harf. Today, DKMS has more than 2.8 million registered bone marrow donors worldwide and has facilitated some 26,000 transplants. "So many people...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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Rival Visions
full advance by the Continental Army. It was the kind of opportunity he had been dreaming of for years. Washington decided on a daring nighttime assault on the redoubt, so as to gain the advantage of surprise over the British. In another...
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- 15 May 2012
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Finally Finding the Right Fit
moved to Amsterdam for a consulting job with Bain. But that didn’t provide the satisfaction he envisioned. Increasingly, he longed to return to his roots in retailing. “I always dreamed of being in the branding and fashion business,” he...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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In My Humble Opinion: Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978)
accomplishment: Post Human, an exhibition Deitch curated in 1992 on future conceptions of the human body. “It became very influential, and the term entered into the language.” Dream project: “I’m particularly determined to do the great...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2023
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Case Study: Power Nappy
from pure DTC and build brand awareness. Think of five dream businesses or locations where you would want your products to be seen and used, to help seed the market. —Dawn Dobras (MBA 1995) is former CEO of Credo Beauty, a startup...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Capitalizing the Corner Shop
sustainably,” he says. “That’s what powers us and powers our entire team. The dream behind Lidya is it should be easier for the next generation to follow their dreams.” But the success of Lidya also has a global message. In October, the...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2019
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3-Minute Briefing: Richard Edelman (MBA 1978)
Chicago in 1952. His biggest risk was putting me in charge of the New York office in 1981, when I was 27 years old. In five or six years, that office grew from 12 employees to 100. I didn’t know what I didn’t know. Part of what keeps me going is that my family name is...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Books: Brand New
by Nancy F. Koehn (Harvard Business School Press) The creation of a powerful, widely recognized brand is the ultimate goal that every entrepreneur dreams of but few achieve. In her new book, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’...
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- 18 Feb 2014
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Stick with Plan A
world. Initially, Maddy pursued an early dream of working for the United Nations Development Program. "Soon, however, I became very disillusioned that economic aid was the path to economic development," she says. "I found that it actually...
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