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Layeeka Ismail

she always had a dream to come to the US. She knew an education would get her here and she ended up pursing her PhD in India. At the end of her program she was ready to move to Canada for her postdoc, but she was pregnant with my older... View Details

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Ferran Ayala

of those people lack the means to run as I have. I have found shelter in a nation that embraces meritocracy; a nation that has allowed me to reach my dreams and keep dreaming ever higher. I want to keep... View Details

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Jodi Yang

that I could. With my one wild and precious life, I'll take the legacy fashioned lovingly by my family and fly upwards with wings I won for myself. It was my grandparents' dream to see China stand on its own two feet. With that... View Details

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Alexandra Rethore

courage and another to embody it consistently as a grown-up. I have learned this the hard way at HBS as I have kept trying to reconcile my dream to work in the art market with financial hang-ups and uncertainty in identifying the path.... View Details

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Anand Radhakrishnan

father's hometown in south India, even today, is complete with roaming cows, thatched roofs and no running water. I hope to devote the resources that others have invested in me to change that. I have two dreams in life: To help make India... View Details

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Tracy Williams

Why me? How could something like this happen to me? The first time was my freshman year in college. I couldn’t believe I had gotten into my dream school. Eager to change the world, I knew I’d study politics. But that View Details

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Eric D'Arbeloff

studio Lionsgate owns a minority stake in his company. Seeing so many interesting films struggle to make it into a theater was his impetus for starting Roadside. "Hollywood is a dream factory. We're kind of the factory part of it,... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media

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Jiao Zhang

The ruler snapped on my knuckles. "Girls dream of being wives not mathematicians." Another rant from the school teacher in front of my class. But I was busy dreaming... that one day, I would go to America and say: I will open a... View Details

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Dan Shanoff

living out a Cliff Huxtable fantasy where I share my life with my zany Cosby Show-esque family. To align my professional skills and my personal dreams will be my precious luxury, showing that H-bombs like me can enjoy rewarding work in... View Details

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David Malinas

Maybe I'm an eternal optimist or maybe I'm just naive, but I believe one person can make a difference in this life. With the support of friends, family, and a belief in something greater than life itself, dreams are achievable...this is... View Details

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Ben Schumacher

access to a quality education. Indeed, the American Dream is but a mirage to millions of minority students, and this is not for a lack of will, intelligence, or courage. This is a civil injustice, pure and simple, and I will devote my... View Details

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Anmol Gupta

conventions of medical training and create life-saving devices. I want to take the “wrong” path to achieve my dreams of becoming a surgeon-entrepreneur. I want never to be the stale adult but forever a feisty, fearless child on the edge... View Details

01 Mar 2009
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Local Customs

ROGERS WITH CONCEPT CAR: “Technology has changed over the past 100 years. We no longer need to build cars the way Henry Ford once did.” Matthew West/Boston Herald Jay Rogers (MBA ’07), whose grandfather once owned the legendary Indian Motorcycle company, also has some... View Details

Keywords: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade; Transportation

16 Mar 2015
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Preserving a Musical Tradition

music and teach a new generation of young musicians the traditional rhythms. “I had a dream of a musical community,” he says, describing his initial concept. “A place where people went and were fully immersed in music as if it were a... View Details

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Marie-Laure Goepfer

Antigone. She is this fragile dark-hair small young woman that nobody never really noticed. At first sight, she has everything to live a quiet and wealthy life. Yet one day, against order and establishment, she quits everything to stay true to the View Details

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Drew Richard

ways. I miss the camaraderie I had in the military, but being here has helped me develop strong bonds, a strong social-support structure. I’ve always dreamed big, but HBS is helping me see my ambitions less as View Details

01 Mar 2023
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Family Matters

their families. “That meant everything,” she says. At the time she began her classes at HBS, Thompson-Woode had a one-year-old daughter and was helping her parents through financial difficulties as she had been doing since high school. MAKING View Details

Keywords: April White

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Mar 2017
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Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools

In this webinar, Michael B. Horn and Heather Staker will discuss the themes from their Amazon-bestselling book, Blended. Using the theories of disruptive innovation, Horn and Staker reveal a practical guide for designing an education system that can help all students... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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@Soldiers Field

FACE TIME HOOP DREAMS NBA star Dwyane Wade took part in a case discussion on his business partnerships with Professor Anita Elberse and students in the Summer Venture in Management Program. The program for rising college seniors aims to... View Details

23 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Founder of Modern Venture Capital

students. He realized his dream of establishing the first Master of Business Administration program in Europe by helping establish the European Institute of Business Administration. Doriot learned the art of bringing science and industry... View Details

Keywords: Education; Financial Services

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