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Arielle Loeb

I want whatever I do to make my socks go up and down. It's like cartoon characters: when they get excited or see something they love, their socks go up and down. I want to find such a job, whether it's selling Cheerios, doing something to improve the education system... View Details

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Andrew Levine

I want to fail. Not have a setback or a misstep. I want a failure so bad that future HBS students will unanimously agree that I’m a blockhead when they read the case about my actions. Growing up, I wanted to be an actor. Along the way, I discovered that I could make... View Details

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Allison Kotzin

When I was growing up, my Dad could not drive me to sports practice like the other fathers in my neighborhood. He could not pick me up in his arms, and he could not walk. I helped feed my dad dinner and combed his hair. I would sit for hours by his wheelchair talking... View Details

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Asaf Gilboa

"My Beautiful Girls, I'm writing this letter from the hospital, a few hours before you're expected to come into the world. And all I can feel is a cocktail of excitement mixed with fear..." Twelve hours after sealing this letter, my world was turned upside... View Details

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Annie Fulton

I can’t recall the first time I held a hammer. It must have been in Dad’s basement workshop, where I spent much of my childhood making things: a gymnastics set for my dolls, a birdhouse for Mother’s Day, a bed for my room. It was definitely before I was ten, when I... View Details

Alumni Changing the World

Abby Falik

Abby Falik, MBA 2008, founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year, is rethinking the traditional gap-year experience for high school graduates. In ten years, Global Citizen Year has supported nearly 1,000 fellows in experiential, community-level project work in Asia,... View Details

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Austin Dirks

My gaze fixed upon the exposed beating heart. There was an infant lying in front of me. Its heart rate 150 beats per minute. The monitor next to me beeping faintly with each twitch of the revealed organ. The skin, the muscle, the ribs, all pulled back, exposing an... View Details

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Ann DeWitt

After five years as a research scientist at 3M, Ann DeWitt was ready for managerial responsibilities that would require a new set of skills. "I wondered how I would make the transition," Ann says. "In slow steps or in one big leap?" Subsequent... View Details

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Andrew Dervan

Like many of his colleagues, Andrew Dervan entered medical school to fulfill a passion. And like many of them, Andrew says, "I'm frustrated with the system. One out of seven dollars in the US is spent on health care. It's just incredible that so much money is... View Details

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Amalia della Paolera

The most universal language I know is soccer. When I step into a pickup soccer game anywhere around the world, I enter into a brief, informal social contract. At first, male players eye me warily as I walk onto the field asking if I can play, too. But then, gradually,... View Details

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Allie Corless

Why was getting a business education important to you? Getting a business education was crucial for me because it enabled me to consolidate my interests and talents into one rewarding and challenging career. Prior to business school, I worked full-time as a... View Details

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Aaron Chadbourne

For Aaron Chadbourne, entrepreneurship began early. "As soon as I could talk, I was put to work in my grandmother's business – selling vegetables at a roadside picnic table piled high with corn." As Aaron grew up, he helped with every aspect of his family's... View Details

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Alexa Brownell

I plan to eat peaches catch fireflies sing loudly in the street laugh belly-aching laughs love until my heart bursts skinny dip in cool summer water sip salty sweet... View Details

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Alfredo Arreba

I have one clear professional objective in life: not to go unnoticed. I want to have a deep impact around me. I would love to become a CEO one day, but you don't have to be one to have an impact in the world. You can create, innovate and contribute at many levels... View Details

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Midwest Student Association

10 Feb 2022
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African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

The HBS African American Student Union (AASU) strives to be an extended family for its members from the moment they decide to attend HBS, through the transition to second year, and beyond graduation. Here we profile two AASU members who attended Historically Black... View Details

12 Nov 2021
Video

How HBS Enhanced My Career as a Product Manager

13 Sep 2023
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Entrepreneurial Insights: Lizzie Matusov, Co-founder and CEO of Quotient

15 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 15

manufacturing capacity to meet state needs, Pfizer adopted an R&D program to find new microbial antibiotics suited to its manufacturing technology after the war ended. In the 1950s and 1960s, Pfizer transformed itself into a... View Details

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