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Jessica Gelman
When I was twelve years old I wrote my life aspirations in the back of a journal. I wanted to play Division I college basketball. I also dreamed of going to Harvard Business School and envisioned owning a company. Believe it or not, I...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Bold Idea Takes Off
Falik Photo Courtesy Abby Falik As a teenager, Abby Falik (MBA ’08) spent a summer living in a rural Nicaraguan village, an experience that inspired her to dream of ways she could help other young people have meaningful experiences in...
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Terrance Rogers
jobs, she worked tirelessly to make sure her kids had the opportunity to dream. I’m sure she had a dream once, but it was buried under her circumstances. Her dream was buried, under the thumb of Jim Crow in...
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- 23 Feb 2015
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Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
hustled to book gigs for bachata artists in the United States and Europe, de Menil dreamed of a bachata academy that would ensure the survival of the art form that had typically been passed down informally. “I had a View Details
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Kam Phillips-Sadler
bending, and goat tying throughout childhood and into her young adult years. In college, however, she turned from wrangling cattle to mentoring children. “I volunteered with children in dream deserts whose idea of fun was throwing rocks...
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Jamie Wilkie
I want to do the hard work of empowering managers and making the strategic choices to get the company back on track. I want to identify untapped business potential and work tirelessly to bring out the best in others. While my peers dream...
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Apeksha Kothari
strive for more. I want to dream more than others have said I should, But to never let these dreams consume me, And to laugh it off when giving my everything doesn’t quite work out. I want to master my mind,...
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Robyn Bolton
fearless. I will smile at strangers as we pass on a cold gray morning. I will move to the moors of England, write that novel and treasure every rejection letter as evidence of a dream pursued. I will remain steadfast in my belief that the...
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Sacha Yabili
It was a jittery night of 1997, and shots ripped the sky as rebels walked toward my home town of Lubumbashi. Cowering on the ground with my siblings to shield against stray bullets, I wondered if I was passively living the epilogue of my life; if these blazing shots...
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Claudio Knizek
in my organization the sense that they can accomplish anything they want. The world needs leaders who inspire people to feel this way, and I dream of being such as leader. Together with my beloved wife, I also intend to embark on a truly...
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Xiao Wang
I will make dreams come true. No, I cannot make you fly or find true love. But I can help with the goals that we set for ourselves every New Year's Day - that this is the year I will become fitter, feel more energized, and live a...
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Peter Tynan
all share the same dream for a happy life. I am saddened that not all those watching the sunset will have their dreams fulfilled – because of deep poverty, conflict, inequality and all levels of struggle to...
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Jocelyne Moyer
It's something my parents never really explained to me, but I figured it out. Bankruptcy taught me to fear that everything I have could be taken away. I never dreamed of making a difference in the world – only of surviving it. After our...
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Andrew Levine
Or that my dad went to prison and never came back. Or that I was gay. Dreams were a risk, so I made all of the safe choices. I went to the right schools and worked at the right companies. Move in, move up, move on. Success, success,...
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- 01 May 2013
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Sid Yog, MBA 2004
of things that you didn't think you'd be able to. It enables you to take greater risks. It enables you to dare to do mighty things. It enables you to translate dreams into reality." But it's not enough to translate his own dreams; Yog...
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Shibani Joshi
I grew up as the eldest child of immigrant parents who chose to live out the American dream in the oddest of places, Oklahoma City. A great portion of my life was spent trying to live up to the expectations of my parents, molding my...
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Josh Solera
who was too ill to come outside, but who loved our food. I fetched his soup and sandwich, and he handed me a hundred-dollar bill. "Keep it," he told me. "Use it to grab your dreams and don't let go. And when you are my age,...
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Irene So
First of all, I want to buy my dad a big, fancy new car. When I was growing up, he always wanted a Lincoln Continental. Year after year he tooled around in his old Plymouth Reliant, dreaming that it was a Lincoln, and year after year the...
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- 31 Jan 2018
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A Visible Example of What’s Possible
Linda Oubre (MBA 1984) is living the same dream she hopes her students can realize. “In a world where only 18 percent of business school deans are women, and less than one percent are African American, I live the life of someone who no...
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Jayon Wang
I might as well just get used to people laughing at my ideas. At age 5, I told my mother that driving a dump-truck was my dream job. I can still hear her sweet and loving laughter. In the 10th grade, that same ambitious boy tried to...
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