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Real Property - Course Catalog
sufficient for those thinking about real estate as a hobby or for those considering real estate for limited personal investing. Educational Objectives The class goals are to show how real estate works, how to assess the risks, how to be a... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Blog Post
Finding the Path: Making Space for Reflection During Recruiting
that a hobby, even a passionate one, is not necessarily a good career. Hobbies are straightforward – the only requirement is that you enjoy them. You don't have to be good at them, you don't get paid, and no one makes you do them for 8-10... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Japanese Connection
It all started with a Japanese language class. Steven Williams (MBA ’84) was a senior marketing director at San Francisco’s Genentech when he took Saturday classes at Soko Gakuen Japanese language school four years ago “just to keep the neurons firing.” “It was a View Details
- 02 May 2023
- Blog Post
From Harvard Business School to Spotify: Four Lessons in My Journey to Land My Dream Job
career after graduation. On the social front, I organized concert outings in Boston and embraced my DJ hobby by becoming our designated Section I DJ. These experiences not only energized me but also helped me gain unique perspectives that... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
as “playful” and “creative”—not in the Dominican Republic, but in New York City. After graduating from Brown in 2001, the amateur musical historian made a hobby of recording New York’s subway musicians. It was through that project that de... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
traveling volunteer program. He took on the new role after returning from a February trip to New Zealand, where he worked with a family for three weeks to build their home. And Murch has found yet another way to help. To keep his programming skills current, he has made... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
— talking about flying and airplanes. It’s wonderful. I get to do my hobby all day long.” Hamilton, who now shares his love of flying with his two children, is clearly elated to have a second chance at his dream. Barely a year into his... View Details
- 22 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
3 Key Steps for Crafting Your Retirement with Intention: Advice from Career Coach, Lauren Murphy
new hobbies and geographies as well. “With a better understanding of what your needs are, researching helps you to learn how you can get those needs met,” said Murphy. Informational Interviews Online research can provide a lot of valuable... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Hobbies Golf, skiing, reading Recommended Reading The Future of Life, by E.O. Wilson "Wilson is lyrical in his expression of some very complex ideas concerning biodiversity and the fate of life on Earth." Helping to lead a revolution of... View Details
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Drone Policy | About
observed when UAS on HBS property as recommended by the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) National Model Aircraft. Safety Code: The pilot must follow all FAA regulations for hobby or recreational flying. Aircraft during free flight must... View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
David Motley (MBA 1988) grew up in Lincoln-Larimer, a struggling neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End. He remembers the soot on the snow in the cold winters of the 1960s. And if he looked south, toward the Monongahela River, he could see the steel mills that were its... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
what began as a hobby morphed into a new career as a successful actor, with roles in Lifetime and ABC television movies, TV series, films, and shorts. Here again, of course, Carson is an outlier. “There aren’t that many people in my age... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
Offspring Beth, MBA '97 John, HBS '03 Hobbies Sailing, skiing Recommended Reading A Conflict of Visions, by Thomas Sowell "Sowell provides important insights into public policy and how it is driven by certain assumptions about human... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
bank in Hong Kong before graduation. "Since there are so few world-class mathematicians, he wanted me to consider other career choices." First Boston Corporation, 1976-78 Why HBS? "An HBS alum at Jardine Fleming told me I would need an MBA if I wanted to be taken... View Details
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
leave his whole world in Texas to follow me. Until, he did. Fast-forward another 1.5 years. We successfully navigated HBS, made our studio a home, survived winter, and discovered new hobbies during a pandemic. We also learned to argue,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
attention to,” he says. Clay names golf, not horseback riding, as his hobby of choice — “I’m a businessman first, a horseman second”— but his devotion to the art and science of Thoroughbred breeding is apparent in every fence post that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
have suddenly become an alternative investment vehicle pursued by high-end investors and hedge funds. Will this phenomenon last? Time to Sell Those Sports Cards follows a personal trip to market as author John Schwarz turns a childhood View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
the mountains, and being in snow, and eventually climbing glaciers was something that was just sort of a natural outcome for me. White: So you were climbing for years before you turned your hobby into a job. Tell me about your career... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
that bring together entrepreneurs and adventurers alike to beaches everywhere from Norway to North Carolina. Tai talks here to Bulletin associate editor April White, about what exactly kiteboarding is, how he got into it, and how his View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
startup in the face of fierce competition. From 2011 through 2016, the business evolved from a hobby to a startup with $22 million in revenue and 45 employees, all of whom worked remotely from home. Customer acquisition was becoming more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne