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Rachel H Chung
belief in my ambitions and ability but always reminded me to find balance and joy in anything I pursue. Even though she is not with us anymore, her love and support are still with me every day at HBS. What’s the best thing about your... View Details
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RGE Report - Race, Gender & Equity
I’d be on corporate boards. From the outset, I had it as an ambition that I’d join a public board, so I took advantage of opportunities in corporate America to learn and grow, lead committees, and get out of my comfort zone.” [...] Read... View Details
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Maha Malik
Maha plans on returning to Bain in Boston, and expects that her subsequent career will pivot back and forth between the private and public sectors. "One of my ambitions is to run for office," she says. "Women bring... View Details
- 15 Aug 2022
- Book
University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed
at least from its public institutions, China has shown an unmatched ambition to build more of the best, ‘world-class’ universities than anyone else. To this effort it has mobilized both state and private resources, and it has at hand more... View Details
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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation
guided the groundbreaking research ambitions of Polaroid—an iconic, 20th-century startup company whose pioneering achievements in optics and engineering continue to have profound technological, social, and artistic significance. At the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
where they would end up. She learned that setting a long-term ambition for the business was very helpful in enabling her to pivot the unit’s strategy at key moments. Having a hypothesis about the destination makes it possible to have a... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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Sneha Biswas
in Africa and played Tabla: An instrument mostly played by men. I did things that most women did not. Over the years my ambition has become to inspire girls to dream big. I want to create a space where I can make women believe in... View Details
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Brandon Lovell
internship – in which Brandon fulfilled IT service functions – proved to be a powerful step forward. But when Brandon's ambitions grew beyond "fixing computers to wanting to be a management consultant, I found some resistance; I was... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
businesses to contemplate having a purpose the way individuals might do so. Aiming for a higher ideal elevates our thinking and expands our ambition that in turn allows us to imagine the possibility of doing things that might otherwise... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
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Charlotte MacDonald
future, Charlotte says she has "a couple of hypotheses to test. My short-term plan is to return to BCG in Toronto. I grew up in a more rural environment, with a slower economy. My long-term ambition is to return home to Atlantic... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
started in her early years. The influence of her mother, an artist, and her father, a mathematician-turned-businessman, inspired Leahy to explore both passions throughout her life. Her parents also encouraged her ambitions and were strong... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
city. It was against this backdrop that Dixon turned her career ambitions to music. “I thought that by becoming a hip-hop A&R person I could change the world, empower black voices, and also make music,” she says. There would be no bigger... View Details
- 12 May 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Sophie Bai (MBA 2020)
I’m also very impressed by Sophie’s energy and passion toward biotech innovations, and her dedication to her own biotech startup. I definitely look forward to learning more from her experience of identifying a career passion, integrating personal View Details
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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting
and leading lights her up and further her mission. “I knew that I wanted to get an education, build a network, and then at some point do my part toward deepening the economy and creating companies that could nurture ambition and talents... View Details
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
pot. The American Dream embraced by immigrants over the past two centuries has been the opportunity to set one's own goals and pursue them honestly to the limits of one's ambition and ability. Too many Americans have been expressing the... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details
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Dilan Gomih
Even food can be a managerial exercise." Dilan's ambitions are entrepreneurial in nature. “I'm looking for the intersection between wellness and media," she says. “If there's a company out there, great but if not, I get to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
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Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
satisfied Mikitani’s ambition to empower his homeland. “Our mission is to be the number one Internet company in the world,” he says, dressed casually in his Tokyo office. That goal is a key factor in the decision he made in 2010 to... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
cannabis federally would shrink the illicit market and help the legal market grow, within the ambit of regulations and informed by research, thereby also generating tax revenue. What is popular is not always what is socially right. But,... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details