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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
administrator and financial manager for pediatric medical services at Massachusetts General Hospital. Then, in 1989, came an opportunity with UNICEF. “It was the perfect match with my interests and experience,” she says. “Doing development work overseas had been a...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
graze. “I immediately told the real estate agent that this was my dream house,” she says shaking her head, still surprised by how she let emotion cloud her usually savvy negotiation skills. Reade didn’t plan to be a farmer, but for tax...
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- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
been watching the show long enough to notice a pattern in the self-doubt: The women tend to fret when they see the supposed man of their dreams bonding with women who are dissimilar to themselves. “One thing that’s commonly said is,...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
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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- 25 Feb 2020
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Teachable Moments
leading and teaching is made in part when managers come to work and say, “Today I’m going to honor the dreams of my subordinates. What would that look like?” The only way to get there is to listen more than you speak.
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- 01 Mar 2022
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Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
rest of us. An imaginative, tech savvy caregiver we employ in our home dreamed up a business based on an unsatisfactory personal experience. Despite her lack of formal training, resources, and investment, she devised a way to test her...
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- 06 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
Casey Gerald: Becoming a Leader at HBS
this scrawny kid from our neighborhood could go to a place like Yale and it meant so much to them. I went really because I thought I couldn’t afford not to go. Once there, Yale really opened my eyes in so many ways. One, to the potential of my life and all the View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
the network, which would be supported by employers interested in making a real commitment to achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals, these young leaders would be able to speak with the people working in their dream jobs....
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- 01 Dec 2010
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How to Survive Past Start-up
Cenedella tried several other ideas for job-industry companies before he came up with the idea for TheLadders. Michel spent years searching for the right business idea — even helping to start a pharmaceutical industry computer firm — before View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
Tobin Project brought together a dream team of researchers, from various fields and universities, to develop a novel set of experiments on inequality and decision-making. Joining Moss and Tobin program manager Howard Rudnick are Norton...
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by Michael Blanding
- 20 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
attended Stanford University as part of the Distinguished Careers Institute Fellowship. “Through my year at the design school, I was able to get back to that transformational perspective on my life with hopes and dreams built on reality,”...
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- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
we served and to see all of the day-to-day stuff.” Quainton’s dream job was interrupted in 1964 when he was drafted. After training at the Naval Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, he was sent to the Panama Canal to serve...
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Margie Kelley
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
expertise that dedicated people gave to their work; it was just at a different level and skill set, and with a broader range of impacts,” she says. Shortly after, Nick was offered the chance to attend the HBS Advanced Management Program. “That was such a gift, a View Details
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- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
says, “I was living a dream every time I put on that helmet. And none of my teammates, from high school All-Americans to the last guys on the bench, needed any extra motivation to leave their guts, heart, and blood on the practice field...
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- 27 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the PRIDE Club
Who is PRIDE? The Class of 2020 students of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Student Association (LGBTSA) pitched an idea to change the club name to be more inclusive of the full spectrum of queer identities to the club leadership. They felt that some...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
Alumni Books Love Coming Home: Transform Your Environment. Transform Your Life by Jennifer Adams (OPM 51) Beyond Words Publishing Rather than sacrificing to save enough for an eventual dream home, Adams recommends looking for the...
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- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
dreaming of. Understand the whole landscape, and if that, that next step still really make sense. Great. But don't just rush into it because it's right there in front of you. My name is Seyi Owodunni, MBA 1998, section F. Well, I guess 20...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
intellectual passions, even though I think the roots of it go back to the relationship with my father. I didn’t put it all together until I came to MIT. When I graduated in 1988, I had offers from nearly all the business schools I had ever View Details
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Marla Malcolm Beck
and an innate ability to see trends and understand shifting industries. Her husband calls her “a dream teller.” After rejecting several ideas, Beck thought about her own lifelong passion for beauty products. “I grew up...
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Lara Hodgson
Lara O’Connor Hodgson thought she’d found the entrepreneurial dream while running Nourish, the successful startup she launched in 2009. But it was Nourish’s very success that triggered Hodgson’s next and even more successful venture,...
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