Dreams - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life

its own still helps toward making your life seem more meaningful,” De Freitas says. “With that said, if you must choose, go with what makes you happy.” You Might Also Like: Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta

05 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Video Blog: Why I Decided to Pursue an MBA at HBS

well-regarded MBA program, that I'd be able to expansively multiply that network tenfold perhaps, meet folks from all over the world, from all walks of life, and potentially help each other out. We'll see how that ends up going. But I have View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

Fueling the Faculty Pipeline

Prakash Melwani (MBA 1986) Growing up in Hong Kong and England, Prakash Melwani dreamed of attending HBS. Realizing that dream, he says, completely changed his life. “I owe the School so much,” says Melwani, a longtime donor to the HBS... View Details

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Ernesto Sterling

Coming to HBS is like... A dream that I thought was never going to happen. Coming to class is one of the most precious gifts I get every morning. Rushing past my section mates as I take my seat and when class is about to start, I can’t... View Details

Portrait Project

Neda Navab

The black and white photo of my grandparents' wedding captures two strangers – a bride, hooked into a stiff corset gown, and a groom, rigid in a starched tuxedo – timidly posing beside each other. They were not in love. Angered by the arranged marriage that ended her... View Details

28 May 2020
Blog Post

How to Fit in at HBS

walked up to the second floor of Spangler for my Admissions interview. Only then did the thought of attending HBS seem close enough to visualize, but realistically so far out of reach that it remained an evasive dream. In fact, it was a View Details

06 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

From an early age, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had a passion for inventing. In The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, journalist Brad Stone wrote that even as a child, “Bezos had dreams of becoming an inventor like Thomas... View Details

Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

under less than ideal circumstances that Shackleton had to marshal resources: He had to find men, money, a ship, dogs. He had to find someone to help them learn to ski. He had to figure out how to do all this—how to make his dream real,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Cars on Time

Individual cases reveal that in Plymouth, as in the rest of the country, borrowers would go to extraordinary lengths to fulfill their contracts, even in the depths of the Great Depression. 23 James Surowiecki, “Masters of Main Street,” The New Yorker , July 12, 2010.... View Details

21 Jun 2022
HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

operating system for the office—the centerpiece of how we do work? That is open at this point. It’s the dream of both Microsoft and Salesforce.” Yoffie and a group of MBA students at HBS used public information to analyze the competition... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology

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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

Essentials Professor William Sahlman Master a proven framework for building and financing new ventures, and make your entrepreneurial dreams a reality. 4 weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Pay by August 21 $1,850 Certificate Disruptive Strategy... View Details

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

or free time and family? Soon after settling into her dream job, Whillans worked and traveled constantly, but her partner was miserable, with no job or friends nearby. During one work trip, the couple was fighting long distance, and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

ask for help. Need to learn about a new industry? Ask your classmates. Need a job? Ask your classmates if they can introduce you to someone you need to reach at your dream company. Want a co-founder? Ask! Over the last two years I’ve... View Details

Portrait Project

Zoe Otedola

thought, walking into an interview at my dream firm. With only five black partners among the 10,000 employees, I did the math. Half a percent. The partners who look like me don’t even represent a whole percent. “Do it for them,” I... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Introduction

Credits “A river of red ink runs through American history.” — Lendol Calder, Financing the American Dream (2000) There is a myth of a lost golden age of economic virtue. Once upon a time, the story goes, people lived within their means... View Details

27 May 2022
Blog Post

Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

together and with our son. An MBA seemed like a natural transition to develop my business acumen and explore industries that interest me. What advice do you have for others in the military considering an MBA? Don’t self-select out! Studying at Harvard had always been a... View Details

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Regional Winners - Alumni

Jewsbury, MBA 2024, Co-Founder & COO Region: Northeastern U.S./New York Together Achieving Dreams (TAD) 3 out of 4 blind Americans are job-ready, but unemployed. TAD is on a mission to increase employment for the blind and low vision... View Details

03 Oct 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

7 Effective Ways to Lead Teams

making a simulated climb up Mount Everest. ‘Big Teaming,’ Audacious Innovation, and the Uncompleted Dream of a Smart City How do you organize a project that spans professions, industries, and even nations? Related Research Papers Research... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Sneha Biswas

in Africa and played Tabla: An instrument mostly played by men. I did things that most women did not. Over the years my ambition has become to inspire girls to dream big. I want to create a space where I can make women believe in... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

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