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- 01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People
the New England Patriots to a thriving family business. In the process, he’s had a tremendous impact on the Boston community. As a kid growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts, Kraft dreamed of going to business school, and he attributes...
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- 18 Feb 2014
- News
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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- 12 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
There is a theme to Dwayne Johnson’s life, and that theme is never settling. Johnson vividly remembers a moment in the mid-90s when he was being driven back home to Tampa, Florida, by his father after getting cut from a Canadian Football League team, his View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
at Harvard Business School. Nicholas Howson, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, focused his comments on developments in China. Corporate investment in China used to be long-term and brand-focused, he said, with an MNC View Details
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
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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- 13 May 2021
- Blog Post
Zhalisa Clarke’s Sabbatical Story: Tech leader turned healer
feared feeling judged by her classmates back on campus, Zhalisa instead felt admired by her peers, even those who she’d assumed were happier and more successful than she. Soon after, Zhalisa decided to return to work and to fulfill her View Details
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
of how few people—neither the ones depicted on the wall nor the artists who had made them—looked like her. “I noticed it and I puzzled over it for a long time. People, in some way, want to see themselves and, up until recently, there have been lots of exclusions,” she...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
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
- News
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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- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
Chrysler South Africa, who had returned to his native South Africa after apartheid ended, motivated a hostile, unproductive black work force by engaging with them in their dream of building a Mercedes for Mandela. This was all about...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
4 Reasons College Students Apply to 2+2
of similarities, but there’s a really wide spectrum of interesting backgrounds and awesome experiences. As cliché as it sounds, let your own dreams inspire your application and your career choices. Trying to force yourself into matching...
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- 20 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018
moms are high achievers at work. Now it turns out they are happy, too. Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods seemed a Wall Street dream come true. But then Amazon's data-driven efficiency met...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Valuing an MBA: Beyond Dollars and “Sense"
motivated, diverse, socially minded peers with big dreams for one another. Personally, I am grateful for a community here that has challenged my thinking, honed my aspirations, and shared unforgettable new experiences. We are lucky that...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
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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Michael Maples
When Mike Maples, Jr. was growing up, there were two things he never dreamed he’d do in life: go to business school or become a venture capitalist. But after graduating from Harvard Business School and becoming a successful entrepreneur,...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
many others over the next two days, Morkel stated, "An African renaissance will be a pipe dream if we fail to realize that we are a part of the global village." Michael A. Thompson (85th AMP), who organized the conference with cochair...
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Susan Young
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
MBA.Distance made our hearts grow fonder. Two years after meeting, he pushed me to follow a dream to live in New York where we moved in together. When it came time to pursue an MBA, Daniel encouraged me to think back to those weekend...
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- 03 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
9 Lessons from the Class of 2019
to the Clear Admit Podcast with Hamza Khan and Director of the Social Enterprise Initiative, Matt Segneri. 1. A Lesson in Following Your Dreams There are so many amazing stories from the Class of 2019 - and far too many to choose...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Alumni Book Briefs
leadership and mentoring and on achieving organization alignment, both vertically and horizontally, across the entire structure of the organization. He also gives readers a method for tracking progress—plant by plant and function by function. Minority Business Success:...
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- 15 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing
should never have a yacht; you should have a friend with a yacht." (To be honest, it's also the only Portuguese saying we know.) By joining SailTime, members can live the Portuguese dream by sharing a yacht with up to seven other...
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