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Naomi Sims
After as short, distinguished career in modeling, Sims decided to pursue her real dreams of being an entrepreneur. An outgrowth of her modeling experiences, Naomi devoted her efforts to manufacturing “realistic” wigs for black women....
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- 31 Jan 2018
- News
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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- 01 Jun 2008
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Library Dues
Schwarzman is donating $100 million to the institution, the largest gift in its history, the Associated Press reported (March 12, 2008). Established in 1895, the library is “a passport to the American dream for lower- and middle-income...
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- 11 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
7 Lessons from My Time at HBS
many people who helped me get where I am today. 7. Dream big and take risks “I want to create a firm that allows space travels.” “I want to help in reducing famine in African countries.” “I want to revolutionize the way education works.”...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Big Turnout for Business Plan Contest
The dream of starting their own business inspired 110 teams of students to enter the 2010 HBS Business Plan Contest, which awarded $170,000 in cash and in-kind services to winners and runners-up in separate business venture and social...
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Anand Radhakrishnan
father's hometown in south India, even today, is complete with roaming cows, thatched roofs and no running water. I hope to devote the resources that others have invested in me to change that. I have two dreams in life: To help make India...
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- 05 Dec 2016
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How to Start a Tech Company Without Tech Experience
freelancers working on projects for companies such as GE and Pfizer. “You’re hardly alone,” Catalant co-CEO Biederman tells would-be entrepreneurs with tech dreams in a commentary for Fortune. “We’re living proof that you can start a tech...
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Amer M. Lahham
I am standing on a Jerusalem hilltop, moments from signing the treaty of peace in the Middle East. I look east and I see Palestine, I look west and I see Israel. Accord is finally here. This moment has been a dream since I made my first...
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Eric D'Arbeloff
studio Lionsgate owns a minority stake in his company. Seeing so many interesting films struggle to make it into a theater was his impetus for starting Roadside. "Hollywood is a dream factory. We're kind of the factory part of it,...
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Jiao Zhang
The ruler snapped on my knuckles. "Girls dream of being wives not mathematicians." Another rant from the school teacher in front of my class. But I was busy dreaming... that one day, I would go to America and say: I will open a...
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Dan Shanoff
living out a Cliff Huxtable fantasy where I share my life with my zany Cosby Show-esque family. To align my professional skills and my personal dreams will be my precious luxury, showing that H-bombs like me can enjoy rewarding work in...
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David Malinas
Maybe I'm an eternal optimist or maybe I'm just naive, but I believe one person can make a difference in this life. With the support of friends, family, and a belief in something greater than life itself, dreams are achievable...this is...
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Ben Schumacher
access to a quality education. Indeed, the American Dream is but a mirage to millions of minority students, and this is not for a lack of will, intelligence, or courage. This is a civil injustice, pure and simple, and I will devote my...
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Anmol Gupta
conventions of medical training and create life-saving devices. I want to take the “wrong” path to achieve my dreams of becoming a surgeon-entrepreneur. I want never to be the stale adult but forever a feisty, fearless child on the edge...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Local Customs
ROGERS WITH CONCEPT CAR: “Technology has changed over the past 100 years. We no longer need to build cars the way Henry Ford once did.” Matthew West/Boston Herald Jay Rogers (MBA ’07), whose grandfather once owned the legendary Indian Motorcycle company, also has some...
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- 16 Mar 2015
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Preserving a Musical Tradition
music and teach a new generation of young musicians the traditional rhythms. “I had a dream of a musical community,” he says, describing his initial concept. “A place where people went and were fully immersed in music as if it were a...
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Christina LaMontagne
hoping to make challenging industry and role changes - supporting them with finding their passion, career visioning, goal setting, job search tactics/execution, and confidence building to land their dream role. Her own experience...
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Sonali Duggal
my hands and skipped across it with a kind of privilege and abandon that neither of them could have dreamed of. Working in a rural village in Thailand, supporting a union in South Africa, and consulting for companies in Brazil? Check,...
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Emily Love
bows, cook cupcakes, and play catch... I still do. love and laugh and dance and play... I still do. understand why sometimes I felt sad and cried... I still do. remember that God watches over me.. I still do. As a little girl, I never View Details
- 17 Apr 2016
- News
Driving Digital Expansion
diversity, where the company’s 4,700 employees (almost evenly divided between men and women) reflect the ethnic make-up of Malaysia, with nearly half the workers being Malay, 25 percent Chinese, and 21 percent Indian. “We call it diversity and complementarity,” Rozhan...
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