Dreams - Publications - Faculty & Research

Portrait Project

M. Monique McCloud-Manley

husband will never doubt my unwavering commitment to our marriage Raise children that will understand that there are no shortcuts to any place worth going Never use a lack of money as an excuse for not fulfilling my dreams Learn to give... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

Utopian Vision

It’s one thing to dream of utopia; it’s another to actually invest in one. That’s what Boykin Curry (MBA ’94), a New York money manager, has accomplished by convincing an A-list of successful friends to buy into what he calls a “Creative... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Real Estate

01 Sep 2024
News

Far-Reaching Impact

accepted into previously. It was a welcome turn of events that enabled her to achieve the dream she and Gupta had of growing Rocket Learning into a thriving enterprise that would catalyze early childhood development across their native... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

my definition of the word—constructive. I am building men and companies." Georges F. Doriot, in "General Doriot"s Dream Factory," Fortune , August 1967 50 Doriot also championed a global community of venture capitalists by promoting... View Details

19 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

Portrait Project

Irem Metin

Growing up, I spent all my time in books. I admired the trailblazer that Lucy was, exploring Narnia alone. My dream was to become as brave, strong, and independent. These ideals were challenged when I was diagnosed with a severe spinal... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

@Soldiers Field

by Harvard Medical School psychiatry professor Robert Stickgold, who recently published the first scientific study on dreams in 40 years. Professor Michael Norton interviewed best-selling author Michael Lewis about his latest book, The... View Details

Profile

Jason Flood

about the future of tech. Google was my dream job—and I got it. I had a fantastic experience there, and my life plan was to scale the ranks at Google.” But his cancer experience, Jason says, “inspired a passion to get involved in health... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Tech

01 Sep 2010
News

Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named

McKinsey & Company. Faith currently serves as the site’s content manager. Last year, sectionmate Melissa Hayes, with MillerCoors, joined as a partner. Darren’s dream is to profitably grow AbilityTrip into a major online community serving... View Details

Keywords: Awards; disability; gay rights; Accommodation; Hospitality

Portrait Project

Maria Makhabane

that I am determined to actively grow into a powerhouse that can fully support our shared needs. Home – the land where I strive to create opportunities for better education, jobs, and prosperity for our children. Yes, I am going home – where our View Details

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Jason Gurwin

don't fear failure. I can't fear failure. Because fear of failure, if you let it, is failure. And so fear will not stop me from taking a chance, from giving every ounce of myself to try and make my dreams happen. My future excites me. The... View Details

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Constanca Oliveira e Sousa

Valentino gown. But it made a dream come true. It was just a simple dress in a lost part of the globe, for an apparently insignificant event that the world would never praise. But it truly and deeply changed someone's life. After... View Details

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Research Links - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

Photography Collection can be viewed through Harvard University's HOLLIS Images system. The High Art of Photographic Advertisement Introduction The Exhibition Photography and Print Advertising Pictorial Publicity Challenge of Color Breaking Down Barriers View Details

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Joel Segre

absurdly lucky life. I want to harness that good luck, pouring myself into the issues I find most urgent and sharing my good fortune with others around the world. Forget work-life balance. My work and my life will not carry equal and opposite weight. I am looking for a... View Details

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 16 Nov 2017
Webinars: Career

How to Be Happy at Work

Are you truly happy at work? Or, like most people, do you have some good days but most of the time work is stressful, all-consuming, and not as fulfilling as you'd like? Annie McKee will share that outdated myths and mindsets are a big part of the reason so many of us... View Details

17 Jul 2025
Blog Post

Turning Doubt into Drive: Embracing Entrepreneurship with Kait Stephens (MBA 2020)

I walked onto the Harvard Business School campus in 2018 with a clear goal in mind: I wanted to be a founder. Yet, along with the big dreams born from watching my dad build businesses, I was also carrying with me fears and doubts. Was I... View Details

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Thomas Rajan

just aviation and trade policy. I will commit myself to make flying accessible to all and take us to places we never dreamed possible. To see each other as never before, so that despite our boundless diversity, we recognize the essence of... View Details

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Sue Yang

Before my first visit back to Shanghai, before we moved to Detroit, before I discovered New York City, before I ever dreamed of Paris or heard of Dubai, I fell in love with Toledo, Ohio. At five, that was my first and only conception of a... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders

large amount of debt. MAKING DREAMS ATTAINABLE READ MORE STORIES MAKING DREAMS ATTAINABLE READ MORE STORIES “There are countless big problems that we have to solve in the world, from income inequality to... View Details