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Erik Dyson
Erik Dyson (MBA 1999) uses the management skills he learned at HBS to lead All Hands Volunteers, a nonprofit that coordinates volunteers around the world to help communities affected by natural disasters. View Details
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Jan Petzel
After scaling Mount Everest in 2013, Jan Petzel (MBA 2003) transformed his personal triumph into an opportunity to raise funds for the construction of a permanent shelter and medical facility in the Gokyu Lakes region of Nepal for the porters who assist the climbing... View Details
Keywords: Other Financial Services
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Joseph Blair
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Earning my MBA was important to me because I wanted to gain business skills that complemented my engineering background. As an engineer, I was accustomed to analyzing technical problems and figuring out the right... View Details
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Maliha Khan
Why was getting a business education important to you? I saw an MBA as important for two reasons: I wanted key analytical and quantitative skills that would help me make decisions and give me more confidence in my judgment; and secondly, to be more effective as a... View Details
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Avi Kremer
He can no longer walk, talk, or swallow, but Avi Kremer (MBA 2007) won’t let that slow down his pursuit of a cure for ALS, a progressive neurodegenerative disease. As founder of Prize4Life, the nonprofit he launched in 2006 with HBS classmates and professors, Kremer... View Details
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Lindsay Steinmetz
Conversations with them reinforced my desire to be in social enterprise, where the complexities of social impact are tackled and debated. It was the energy they brought to public health, international development, education and corporate... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
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Naiyya Saggi
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I am passionate about creating social impact (specifically improving healthcare outcomes in emerging economies). At HBS, leadership is not interpreted narrowly: it is not sectoral, geographic or time bound. That is what... View Details
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Arvind Chandrababu
What led you to the HBS MBA program? When I was an undergraduate at the University of Texas, Austin, studying electrical engineering, I realized that as much as I enjoyed coding, I didn’t want to spend eight hours out of every day in front of a computer. I wanted to... View Details
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Oliver Bladek
Why was getting a business education important to you? In my undergraduate studies, I had received a business degree where I learned the basics of business (the 4Ps of marketing, accounting debits and credits, NPV, etc). I wanted to come back to business school to... View Details
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Kamen Bliznashki
Why is getting a HBS MBA important to you? Coming from an investment banking background, I lacked deep understanding of the larger strategic challenges of clients. I see my HBS experience as an opportunity to broaden and deepen my skill set beyond finance. The focus on... View Details
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Jack Perkowski
Against the advice of many, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) ditched his high-flying investment career and relocated to China in 1992 to build his own company. Through trial and error, Perkowski learned that the key to its success was in hiring young mainland Chinese with... View Details
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Casey Gerald
“Truth is, there weren’t a lot of kids around me going to an Ivy League school.” Initially “convinced” he would become a lawyer, a summer internship within a law firm “quickly disabused me of the idea.” Investment banking came next, accompanied by figurative broken... View Details
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Aline Camargo
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? At HBS I was constantly exposed to a great variety of ideas, projects, studies and events. This intense and diverse environment allowed me to test various skills and discover some of my strengths and weaknesses that I... View Details
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Shaun Miller
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Earning an MBA has been a career aspiration of mine since my undergraduate studies - I had always looked forward to the idea of not only expanding my technical skill set, but also learning about the broader business... View Details
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Charles Jennings
Why was earning your MBA here important to you? Although I was making an impact at my organization, I felt that I wasn't achieving my objectives as quickly or efficiently as I could. Earning an MBA from HBS would provide additional tools to drive faster and more... View Details
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Tricia Lee
divisions at Microsoft. It was an incredible journey, but I realized that to achieve the goals I had in mind, I'd need to round out my knowledge base. I wanted to learn the formal language of business (i.e. finance, ops, marketing), best practices and lessons from a... View Details
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Nikki Skovran
In her varied career to date, Nikki Skovran has applied her talents to processes and product lines at Proctor & Gamble — and to the pursuit of violent gang members in the United States’ toughest inner cities. To account for the variety, Nikki simply says, “I really... View Details
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Alexandra Stanek
Why did you pursue the joint MBA/MPP degree with HBS and the Kennedy School? Both schools offer many different answers to questions concerning economic development and the role business can play for the poor. For the MBA specifically, one motivation is the hard... View Details
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Donna Khalife
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Earning my MBA at HBS was critical in giving me the right environment to explore my passions and gain new skills to pursue those passions whole-heartedly. How has your HBS experience shaped your career path? My HBS... View Details