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Micah Macfarlane

Micah Macfarlane tries to make every career decision to make the greatest difference in the most lives. Before HBS, Micah worked in global health – expanding access to quality care and, especially, affordable medicines. "I worked to solve market failures,"... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Manufacturing/Energy; Nonprofit/Government/Education

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Marissa Kaplan

We were living a romantic comedy – a young couple in love in Manhattan. Mornings in the park with chocolate croissants, The New York Times in print, sporadic sirens and street performers. Walks to the bookstore with linked arms and fake British accents. At HBS, I... View Details

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Monica Haugen

I still constantly look around and think, "I am so different from these people." Although I crossed no ocean to get here, it feels as though I crossed something even bigger - a social and economic divide. I have accessed an entirely new world, one that, quite... View Details

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Mark Giragosian

“Why can’t I go on stage too?” At five years old, watching from the audience at my sister’s first ballet recital, I was so excited by the music and dancing I could barely stay in my seat. “Well, you can go on stage if you want,” my dad replied, “but you have to wait... View Details

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Margo Cramer

Margo Cramer is a person of parallel, but not divided, loyalties. As an undergraduate, she majored in Women & Gender Studies, which gave her, she says, the opportunity to "understand inequality through a gender lens and within a variety of contexts."... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education; Retail/Hospitality

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Mike Contillo

I called it magic water. My parents separated when I was young. I spent a lot of time with my grandfather. Each morning, he boiled tap water, which he chilled overnight in a glass carafe. Each afternoon, he poured two glasses of magic water and turned on Mister... View Details

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Lauren Park

Today is a big day—it is October of my first year of teaching, my mentor will observe me for the first time, and my principal announced yesterday that I will have new desks in my room. At 5:30 a.m., as I sit on the D-train to the Bronx, I consider my carefully planned... View Details

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Leila Meliani

In the January break between semesters this year, Leila Meliani participated in the Tech Club's WesTrek to Silicon Valley and arrived at a welcome epiphany. "We heard several venture capital partners speak to the need for talent – and for good advice to help get... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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Long Lu

Beat the drum that others will listen to. My grandfather was a general in the Chinese Air Force. A veteran of World War II, he taught me the core values of integrity, authenticity, dependability - and most importantly - courage to give voice to my values. I lived in... View Details

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Laila Kassis

An image from my childhood home provides inspiration: A framed photo of my family's olive tree with its stumpy figure, gnarled roots, and uneven snow-covered branches reveals the incredible resilience and strength of character developed over its 1,400-year life. I'll... View Details

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Layeeka Ismail

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? From a professional standpoint, I knew I wanted to return back to Bain Houston after finishing my MBA and it made sense to pursue an MBA after my first three years at Bain. From a personal standpoint, my husband and I... View Details

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Laura Hayden

When I was little I wanted to be a comedian. I thought there was something magical in being able to make others laugh. I loved the idea that just by telling a story you could make people forget about their troubles and release this wild and loving emotion. Turns out I... View Details

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Lina Fares

I wasn't ready. I never will be ready. Her laughter, her smiling eyes, her wit, her warmth, her strength; I wasn't ready to live without them. When I lost my mother I felt a huge vacuum in my life. She raised my sister and me on her own. She took care of her four... View Details

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Lynn ElHarake

The intercom beeps. "Mrs. Davis, send Lynn ElHarake to the principal's office. Immediately." I rack my memory for something I did wrong, but think of nothing. "I am an honest person," I remind myself, dragging my feet to the principal's office.... View Details

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Leo Chang

I will run with my baton. My baton smells of gunpowder from the hands of my ancestors, as they led armies into battle to forge a modern China. My baton is dulled by grime from my grandfather's hands, as the one-time physicist toiled in hard labor camps for freely... View Details

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Lea Carpenter

English author E.M. Forster wrote a mantra for the Moderns; it was this: "only connect." That formula—if we can bleed it both into our lives (our husbands our wives our sons our daughters our parents our friends our work) and into our art (our novels our... View Details

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Karibu Nyaggah

Frolicking in the sun. Puddle-jumping in the rain. Teasing my sisters. Feasting on dessert. Sipping tea. Family vacations on white sandy beaches. This was my childhood in Kenya where at school, a diverse curriculum of the arts, math, sciences and even dovetail joints... View Details

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Kevin Nazemi

Kevin Nazemi chose Microsoft after graduation from MIT for the chance to turn a small market presence into something much bigger. “When I arrived, our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) product had almost no traction in the U.S.,” Kevin says. “By the time I left, I... View Details

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Kevin Mohr

I would like to write a book filled with love, comedy, episodes of tragedy, and obstacles that are heroically overcome. My book will be rather easy to write because most of the stories will come from my own life, and the people who read my book will not be able to put... View Details

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Kunal Modi

I learned the meaning of community by leaving home. When I was fifteen, my family moved halfway across the world – from Illinois to Singapore – where I enrolled in an American school. I had been uprooted from everything familiar – the park where I played football, my... View Details

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