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- 05 Sep 2023
- Book
Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs
who developed a pair of footless body-shaping stockings and tried to market them to women. When she was met with rejection, she fell back on the approach to failure her father instilled nightly around her childhood dinner table. He... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Oct 2023
- News
Spreading the Words
Shafiq Khan (MBA 1982) loves to solve problems. It’s what attracted him to the case study method at HBS and, after graduation, to consulting at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Then, at United Airlines, Khan encountered another challenge: The company was spending one-sixth of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Jul 2022
- HBS Case
How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)
enthralled by their inventive “mix-ins” of fruit, candy, and even maple-candied bacon into traditional ice cream flavors. Moreover, they felt they had a story to tell about childhood and dreams, and their backgrounds—Cuscuna, as a... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 15 Feb 2022
- Book
When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career
Decades ago, a talented young musician pursued his childhood dream of becoming the world’s greatest French horn player, studying with great teachers, attending music festivals, and always earning first chair. At 19, he dropped out of... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
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Rafaella Mazza
that, I thought of environmental engineering, but upon learning that environmental engineers design sewage while agronomic engineers get to drive tractors, I chose that instead. What is your favorite childhood memory? Waking up early at... View Details
- 07 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back
Failure Can Be An Asset, But Personal Failure Is Ruinous Still, stubborn entrepreneurs continue to found companies, in spite of the failure rates, which raises the question of why. It's not as if any of them harbored childhood dreams of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Joy Chen
opportunity, I promise I will change the world.’”At the time, Joy was five or six years old. As childhood moved into adolescence and young adulthood, Joy seized every educational opportunity she could, first in China, and after age ten,... View Details
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Varnika Menghnani
lens, and there was not a single person in the classroom without tears in their eyes. HBS classrooms allow you to be vulnerable in the most beautiful ways. What is your favorite childhood memory? My favorite View Details
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Harshini Chengareddty
also brought so many of the other things that matter in our lives into the discussion. What is your favorite childhood memory? My family’s annual camping trips. Every Memorial Day Weekend for almost 10 years without fail, we would go... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year
Action? It's Complicated. Voting Democrat or Republican? The Critical Childhood Influence That's Tough to Shake How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs Feedback or ideas to share? Email the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Chris Aguemon
amazing to hear the joy in the room and see how close we had come as a section alongside an exceptional faculty member. What is your favorite childhood memory? When I was 10, I started playing youth football. I remember one particular... View Details
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Davida Bynum
brilliant and humble students from over 35 countries who are equally impressive as they are kind. The connection we have fostered has left an indelible impact on me and I am so grateful that HBS brought us together. What is your favorite View Details
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Adrian Obleton
like writing enough to go to law school. What is your favorite childhood memory? I remember learning how to do math when I was 5 or 6 by playing Monopoly with my dad. It's a controversial game, but it’s still my favorite to this day... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details
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Voices: For My Next Act HBS alumni offer advice for enjoying—or avoiding—retirement The Power of Resilience How Parul Somani (MBA 2009) created the silver lining in a life-changing diagnosis On the Road Less Traveled How Ed Hajim (MBA 1964) overcame a View Details
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Loujaine AlMoallim
traits and how he felt blessed to have 92 role models; this moment solidified the sense of community and camaraderie we share as a section. What is your favorite childhood memory? One of my favorite View Details
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Development Economics (33) Diasporas (3) Disruption (22) Disruptive Innovation (27) Distribution Channels (20) Distribution (45) Diversification (1) Diversity (248) Duopoly and Oligopoly (2) Early Childhood Education (2) Earnings... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
cultural dialogue; Past Lives, a 2023 feature film about Korean childhood friends—one who stayed, one who moved to the United States—has received multiple award nominations. Kim and his wife, Kyung-ah Park, are fluent in both cultures,... View Details
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Katie Sadler
become life-long mentors. What is your favorite childhood memory? Every summer, my mom would pile our family, including two dogs, into a minivan and we would drive from Michigan to Maine to spend the summer with my grandparents. We spent... View Details
- 07 Nov 2023
- News
Love and Money
saver or one is extravagant or one's frugal, but that's not even the tip of the iceberg. The four money languages really help you understand what money means to the other person, psychologically. And a lot of that has to do with their beliefs in View Details