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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
based on Outward Bound's educational philosophy. That path brought him to HBS, with the goal of gaining the organizational skills to put his plan into action. If Georgetown was the catalyst for O'Neill's dream of helping kids before they... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Alumni Career Services Update
their dream jobs by categories such as function, geographic location, and salary. Contact Information: Alumni Career Services, Wilder 302 Harvard Business School Boston, MA 02163 Telephone: 617-495-6587 Fax: 617-496-5699 Web site:... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World
Christ Church in Washington's Georgetown section, in fact, where she met Jay when they both signed up to volunteer in a soup kitchen. After marrying in 1991 and several years of trying to have a child, they came to the conclusion that adoption was their best option.... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
High Adventure
right now I’m looking out the window at my nine-year-old daughter feeding a baby deer,” says Beilharz in a phone interview. “That’s a huge change from the affluent neighborhood in Austin where we once lived.” Indeed, life was, for many years, fast-paced and intense for... View Details
- 25 Mar 2008
- News
Whistling Past the Graveyard
particularly academic — a meaningless quibble over technicalities while the American Dream goes up in smoke. Ordinary people, like yours truly, have understood for years that this country was not on sound economic footing. Just look at... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
1998, and he decided to live his dream. He cofounded and then bought majority control of an independent minor league baseball team. At Swarthmore, I was captain of the baseball team and wanted nothing more in life than to play baseball professionally. Not counting on... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
about six weeks after Sam Adams hit the market, it got picked as the best beer in America, and the whole company was two people. So, I thought, all right, this is going to be bigger than I thought. But, yes, somewhere in my wildest dreams... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
constrained by finances. About half of our students take on debt, and some may feel that they won’t be able to work in their dream job or industry or geography because some areas don’t pay as well as others. Why is it critical to the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
access to financing for veterans, accelerated suburban development and helped make the American dream of home ownership a reality for the middle class. What happened to turn that dream into such a nightmare?... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
to do some of the things that we want. A lot of people who are graduating from business school, they might dream about making an impact on the world through working for a nonprofit, like the social enterprise side of them, or that they... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
Fariborz Ghadar (MBA 1972, DBA 1976) could have walked away from the American dream at any point. It could have been the moment his fraternity brothers at MIT decided they couldn't pronounce his name and called him "Bob." It could have... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
coming to HBS, that means identifying problems and dreaming up new solutions—that may or may not work. Cities and towns can experiment with bold ideas, discard those that don’t accomplish their goals, and scale those that do. Weiss calls... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ken Baumgartner - Sticking with It
Photography by Robert Schoen As a boy growing up in Flin Flon, a small mining town four hundred miles north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ken Baumgartner did what many Canadian boys do to pass the long winters: He played hockey. But unlike many of his friends who View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
money. But refunds are many families’ best opportunity to put away a few dollars for their children and their futures. For the past three years, a team comprising researchers, the nonprofit Doorways to Dreams Fund (which I cofounded),... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
how it has emboldened them to consider stating a business, which they could never have dreamed of,” he says, adding that I Create has been awarded the “best partner” award by NFTE two years in a row. But the organization still faces... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Borders, and Goodwin led a group of his classmates to make the dream a reality. Why did you decide to become the CEO of Executives Without Borders? In my time overseas, I witnessed extreme poverty but saw few working on solutions that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
development. After graduation from HBS, Dillon will start a job at Apax Partners, a private-equity firm in London. Once she has more experience, she dreams of launching or buying a business in Ireland. (Her heart is still in her homeland,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
not show up often in a business book but I felt really passionate about including it here. I am so fortunate to work with leaders who are making a difference in the world, who have big titles, who make great compensation, who have a life that most of us View Details