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- 09 Jan 2020
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Advancing Change
It’s not enough to be a good leader, says HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Today’s societal challenges require advanced leaders—ones with the skills of an experienced CEO, the big dreams of a new entrepreneur, and the rare ability to...
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- 13 Dec 2017
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Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
enough research on this. But I think—what I said is I think what voters need is they want a new—they want the American dream back. You ask people if their children's lives are going to be better than theirs, and most people will hesitate...
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- 06 Jul 2015
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Lights! Camera... Market!
In the 2013 independent feature film Beneath the Harvest Sky, two teenage boys struggle to find their future in a rural farming community in northern Maine. Set against the backdrop of the blue-potato farm that employs much of the town, one boy View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
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A Life Transformed
says Parija, who later became head of corporate banking following a merger that created a much larger institution. "My contribution to the bank's income was significant, and I was rewarded with company-paid business education," he says. "I chose the AMP program. My...
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- 26 May 2016
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Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
going to change the lives of many,” says Mittal. Sunil Bharti Mittal’s life story is partially based on an ability to find new ways when encountering an obstacle and on realizing dreams that others see as farfetched. One of his current...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2000
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Of Dugouts and Sweatshops
students at the student-organized Leadership and Ethics Forum last March. Under Reich's review was a labor inspector's ruling that a batboy for the minor-league Savannah Cardinals be removed from his dream job because of laws prohibiting...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts
dreams that I'd be where I am today!" « Back to the top of the page Seeking Out the New — Emma Minto by Garry Emmons The daughter of an executive with a peripatetic lifestyle, Emma Minto has known from early on how to hit the ground...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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The Giving Tree
want to help those with talent to have the means to realize their potential.” Ruth Cenat (MBA 2015) Recipient, Collin Roche (MBA 2000) Fellowship and Mannion (MBA 1985) Family Fellowship “This fellowship offers me the ability to continue to View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters
interests that later proved complementary when it came to carving up iTrust management responsibilities. Agarwala grew up in Calcutta, the original capital of India during British colonial rule, dreaming of playing cricket. He ultimately...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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The Prophet of Start-Ups
Doriot HBS ARCHIVES PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION As a young man, Georges Doriot dreamed of running a factory, a rare aspirational failure in his long, storied career. Rather, he ended up teaching thousands of HBS students how they should run...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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The Sky’s the Limit
and went to school for engineering,” he says. “Then I got a job, got married, and had kids. There was no time for flying.” With his aviator dreams grounded, Hamilton pursued another passion: designing and building things. A Seattle...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Rescue & Recovery
October 2020. This is her first gig as chief executive, but it’s one she has long envisioned. As a little girl, growing up first in the DC area and then later in Connecticut, McKenna dreamed of running a Fortune 500 company. As CEO of...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management
arise,” he says. “They leave HBS with big dreams and the thought that they have a solid grasp on what is right and what is wrong.” Over the past eight years, Soltes has spoken to more than four dozen former executives who did commit...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
chairman of the privately held S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (more popularly known as SC Johnson Wax), thinks of the story as more than a charming anecdote. "In my dreams I fantasize that someday Johnson Wax will be able to conduct a...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
Stacey Abrams didn’t dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Her first small business was a consultancy that she launched out of necessity to supplement her salary as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998)...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 27 Apr 2018
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Placing Nurses Where They Are Needed
nurses, what we tell our staff, and the real focus of the company. We get letters from patients—I received one about a year ago from a patient who is eternally grateful. It was a heartwarming letter from a patient who was treated very specially by our nurse. I think...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Ink
professor Michael A. Cusumano identify the common magic mojo management practices of a trio who were individually very different people but who shared a similar drive. “All three were enormously ambitious and dreamed big dreams—not so...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
based on Outward Bound's educational philosophy. That path brought him to HBS, with the goal of gaining the organizational skills to put his plan into action. If Georgetown was the catalyst for O'Neill's dream of helping kids before they...
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Deborah Blagg
- 07 Sep 2021
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Green House
Courtesy Birchwood Sustainable Development Courtesy Birchwood Sustainable Development When Betsy Harper (MBA 1984) was shopping for real estate in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2018, she had some atypical requirements. Her dream house...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
ever dreamed that frequentflier miles would become a multibillion-dollar source of incremental airline revenue," he notes. In 1982, Brierley was named vice president of sales and advertising for Pan American World Airways, where he...
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