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- 28 May 2019
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Action Plan: Border Crossing
“Just hearing about those trips and looking at her photos made the world feel a bit more accessible,” says Rawdon, who tested the waters by traveling to Paris with her high school French class. That experience launched a lifetime passion... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
love, instantly,” he recalls. His passion for the water prompted him to start training to sail competitively—and to leave his job in wealth management at Goldman Sachs in order to skipper his first therapeutic sail, for eight disabled... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
smart can be even more important than working hard." HBS Press Books in Brief Leading the Revolution, by Gary Hamel, offers an action plan -- indeed, an incendiary device -- for any company or individual intent on becoming or persevering as an industry revolutionary.... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
12, bought his first sailboat with money saved from collecting and recycling his neighbors’ newspapers. Although he dreamed of being a marine biologist, Frey’s academic passion was engineering, which sprang from working in a machine shop... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term
B-corp on a mission to further people’s passion for baking through environmentally sound practices. “Sustainability is so much bigger than just climate change. It’s about sustaining societies and even businesses for the long term,”... View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Pitching In for Female Leaders
positions. “Those of us who are very passionate about achieving gender equality know that empowering women is only part of the solution. And true parity can only be reached if those decision-makers at the top also buy in and understand... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jen Wong (MBA 2004)
all the elements that are necessary to be successful in the digital media world.” Back to her roots: “The early part of my career was doing quantitative work, but I had always had a personal passion for media and creative businesses. I... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
When You Speak, This Group Listens
among our classmates, and serving as Class Notes secretaries. We do this because we care passionately about the School. We appreciate the transformative experience that HBS provided us and believe it’s our responsibility to support the... View Details
- 27 Nov 2013
- News
No Bologna, Please
difference," says Shaich, who is based in Boston but visits an average of 25 stores a week. "Once you've resolved your basic financial needs, work is about three things: solving problems; making a difference; and doing something that you feel a View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
equipped facility, set up in the attic of an unsuspecting aunt, was nothing less than "the best money could buy," Yeo proudly recalls. That passion for education, for himself and Singapore's people, still burns. Seeking a cram course in... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
New Magazine Makes Its Mark
would allow more time with their young families. But what would they do? The idea for Bookmarks grew out of a mutual passion for reading and a hunch — confirmed by friends and focus groups — that book lovers needed an easy-to-use buyer’s... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- News
Screen Saver
former investment banker, Apkon found the ideal focus for his passion for film by forming a nonprofit group in 1998 to purchase the defunct Rome Theater, a 1925 historic landmark located near his home in downtown Pleasantville, New York.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
Three stories in this issue will introduce you to remarkable individuals who work in strikingly different fields but who share a common passion — the pursuit of ideas that are changing the way others think and act. Gayle Lemmon (MBA ’06),... View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- News
Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources
impact on both students and their parents. “Harvard really gave me the ability to translate my ideas—which I had many of—and make them into visions. So, Harvard was a wonderful complement to the other experiences I had in my life, and it really allowed me to bring out... View Details
- 16 Dec 2010
- News
The Emergent Arab World
Maurice Obeid (HKS/HBS 2012) made clear in a passionate opening statement. In his remarks, Obeid, who is from Lebanon, echoed some of the personal anguish expressed by Arab-American Sharjeel Kashmir (PLDA 4, 2007) in the current... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
Seldom, if ever, has global competition been so glamorous, or so passionately beheld. At soccer's World Cup in France this summer, hundreds of thousands of spectators and a cumulative TV audience of 37 billion cheered and wept as 32... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
TV and, to some extent, that’s true. But on the other hand, there are people screaming on TV about the minimum wage. It may be a good sign that Americans have discussions with that kind of passion about what might seem like dry policy... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
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Bertarelli Foundation Gift Names Deans' Health & Life Sciences Challenge Prize
Harvard Innovation lab (i-lab), which leverages the entrepreneurial spirit throughout the university and shows the unlimited possibilities unleashed when individuals from a wide range of fields but with a shared passion are brought... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
brand, Silk explains, "Different skills are required, but notable among them are creativity, analytical know-how, the ability to seize the opportunity, and the passion to make it a crusade. Another key element is that our 150 employees... View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
hopes in the near future to focus full time on the Renaissance empire he has built and is intent on expanding. "I get to apply my business skills to the building of the company, but my passion for it hasn't diminished at all," he says.... View Details