Dreams - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Sep 2017
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Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion

excerpt from the March 2016 Bulletin, Orbital CEO David Thompson (MBA 1981) reflected on the company’s beginnings, dreamed up in the wake of a funding decline for NASA—Thompson’s employer at the time—in the 1970s: Thompson began thinking... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Action Plan: Writing the Next Chapter

dreamed of living and working in New York. Her parents encouraged her to pursue her outside interests, which included studying hotel management and working in luxury marketing, but those experiences brought her back to Caran d’Ache. After... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2008
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Where Are They Now?

that bought the Boston Celtics in 2003, it took him “about a nanosecond” to accept. “To be affiliated with an organization that has been such an inspiration for me, since age nine, is a dream come true,” notes Cash. He got his now-coveted... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Management

01 Sep 2005
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Make Plans for Washington GLF

When I left Soldiers Field thirty years ago as a young MBA, I never dreamed that I’d be back one day as president of the Alumni Association. But here I am at the beginning of a two-year term as head of a very dynamic alumni group — nearly... View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 May 2013
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Sid Yog, MBA 2004

of things that you didn't think you'd be able to. It enables you to take greater risks. It enables you to dare to do mighty things. It enables you to translate dreams into reality." But it's not enough to translate his own dreams; Yog... View Details

01 Apr 2002
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Just Super

Kraft told the Boston Globe (February 6, 2002). "To see people of all backgrounds cheering for the team, we've accomplished part of our dream of being able to bring the community together." The organization's senior vice president and... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

09 Jan 2020
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Advancing Change

It’s not enough to be a good leader, says HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Today’s societal challenges require advanced leaders—ones with the skills of an experienced CEO, the big dreams of a new entrepreneur, and the rare ability to... View Details

31 Jan 2018
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A Visible Example of What’s Possible

Linda Oubre (MBA 1984) is living the same dream she hopes her students can realize. “In a world where only 18 percent of business school deans are women, and less than one percent are African American, I live the life of someone who no... View Details

01 Oct 2002
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Karen Gordon Mills

fruition about two years ago when Mills's husband, Barry, a Bowdoin College graduate, was offered his dream job: the presidency of his alma mater. The couple packed up their three sons, now ages 9, 13, and 16, and left New York for what... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Of Dugouts and Sweatshops

students at the student-organized Leadership and Ethics Forum last March. Under Reich's review was a labor inspector's ruling that a batboy for the minor-league Savannah Cardinals be removed from his dream job because of laws prohibiting... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Mar 2006
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Drive-In Nation

employers to provide essential benefits, including health care after retirement. That meant we didn’t have to face much public responsibility to do that. The American Dream may have to be reinvented, perhaps with a bit more public... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2020
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The Complete Package

the early 2000s, yet she took a circuitous route to entrepreneurship. As a child in Malaysia, Chong dreamed of being a lawyer, but her family did not have the money to finance her legal education. Instead, she decided to pursue... View Details

Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing

16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany

the energy technology of the future were largely, early inspirations and dreams 20 years ago. And now, are competitive in increasing parts of the world. And so, what was an entrepreneur's dream or an... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management

arise,” he says. “They leave HBS with big dreams and the thought that they have a solid grasp on what is right and what is wrong.” Over the past eight years, Soltes has spoken to more than four dozen former executives who did commit... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Jun 2022
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Ink: Start Small, Rise Above

Stacey Abrams didn’t dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Her first small business was a consultancy that she launched out of necessity to supplement her salary as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998)... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Jun 2010
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Devilish Plot

Devilish plot: This year’s HBS Show, The Devil Wears Crimson (here in rehearsal), centered on an anonymous gossip blogger who wreaks havoc at HBS as she tries to uncover who caused the financial crisis. When she learns that her boyfriend’s faulty math is to blame, she... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2023
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Fostering a Supportive Community

ability to feel like they can fully participate in the experience. MAKING DREAMS ATTAINABLE READ MORE STORIES MAKING DREAMS ATTAINABLE READ MORE STORIES After months of work, in April 2020, the task force... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Mele

01 Dec 1998
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A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

based on Outward Bound's educational philosophy. That path brought him to HBS, with the goal of gaining the organizational skills to put his plan into action. If Georgetown was the catalyst for O'Neill's dream of helping kids before they... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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