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Valerie Bockstette
supporting my endeavors, and friends encouraging me to follow my dreams. It was this network of expectations that acted as my trampoline, constantly demanding greater heights. Most children aren't so lucky. They grow up in a world devoid...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
extent, they argue, life expectancy is determined mostly by where you reside. People in developed economies have a good shot at seeing 80, while life View Details
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Terrance Rogers
No one ever told my mother to dream. She grew up in 1950s Georgia, where nothing of importance was expected of little black girls. Yet without a high school degree, she scraped her way up from rural poverty to build a wonderful View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: Power Plays
MORE Folsom Labs’ Paul Grana on what it means to live a “quantified” life on the Skydeck podcast MORE Folsom Labs’ Paul Grana on what it means to live a “quantified” life on the Skydeck podcast Illustrations...
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Helen Ruiqi Zhang
I want to live my life with a big heart and a small ego. Silvery waves crash onto rocky grey shores, white icebergs float majestically on the silent water. The vast expanse of landscape is beyond what you can possibly fathom. Yet I am...
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- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
HBS professors of whom I still have fond memories. Robert Willig (MBA 1963) Walter Salmon was the kindest man on the faculty when I was there. He is my fondest memory of the school. Charles E. Smith (MBA 1961) Marketing was not my chosen field or anything I View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
renewables, biomass, carbon capture and sequestration, hydroelectric, and nuclear are all losing the race with fossil fuels and are expected to keep losing. Fossil fuel use is surging around the globe. With that surge, economic...
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Chris LaColla
hiding it. The art of kintsugi is underpinned by the belief that the cracks and imperfections make something more beautiful, for they are part of the story of that object. I realized in that moment, standing on the other side of the world, that my View Details
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
same method in your personal life Fortunately, the costs can be amortized by developing such habits in one’s personal life. The same bedrock postulates apply: pay “deep attention” to friends and family. And be judicious in allocating time...
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Yuval Gonczarowski
instantaneously. I find it's simplicity addictive, mind-catching, intoxicating. There’s One, and there’s Zero; True, and False; Right, and Wrong. Yet as hard as I try, the real game of life cannot be beaten by code, and livelihood is not...
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
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Anthony Martore
one thing you brought with you to campus, and one thing you’ll be leaving with? Moving all the way from Los Angeles to Boston, I frankly didn't bring much—no expectations nor understanding on what my life...
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- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
Clubs News Clubs News In a first-ever result, all of the winners in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition (ANVC) hail from the same HBS class: the MBA Class of 2022. The ANVC finale, held virtually on March 22 and 23, brought eight global regional winners together...
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Margie Kelley
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Colin Fraser
attending. Like many of my classmates who have lost a loved one, it is both my greatest source of power and my crippling Achilles heel. In a moment, I doubt my ability to lead a wild and precious life at all – the overwhelming sorrow...
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Kate Lewis
head. But Mom headed to the office just the same, without so much as acknowledging the added challenge to her corporate aspirations. My mom set bold expectations by seeking personal and professional fulfillment at the same time, even...
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Linda Zhang
humanity. I never cried so hard as I did then. But instead of sadness, I remember that day with awe, because for a moment, he was once again larger than life. As those words settled heavily on my shoulders, I felt both the burden of his View Details
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Caitlin Roman
climbing accident in Kenya just ten months earlier. Once I took off though, pure joy overcame the fear. I was flying – truly flying – for the first time. After having single-mindedly taken the path expected of me as a teenager, trapeze...
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Asaf Gilboa
"My Beautiful Girls, I'm writing this letter from the hospital, a few hours before you're expected to come into the world. And all I can feel is a cocktail of excitement mixed with fear..." Twelve hours after sealing this...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard The private sector holds the key to reform in Latin America — but the task of inspiring and involving business at a time when profits all over the region are plummeting is more difficult than ever. The strongest...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
the bet, but his antics no doubt ruled out Baker Scholar honors for the future investment banker. The Cold Calls. There is nothing like seeing the bold and confident get called on to start a case when they least expect it. Professor Jim...
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J. Hans Stumm