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Henry McCance

Greylock recommended Timothy Armour (MBA 1975) to McCance as a potential consultant. Armour, who had some 20 years’ experience in development and operations at nonprofits, including Harvard Business School, met with McCance over dinner.... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Health Care

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Evelyne White

cutthroat. Explore and stress-test business models that don't require world domination. —Mark Chussil (MBA 1979) Got a case? To take part in a future "Case Study," send an outline of your company's... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Services

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Kanwaljit Bakshi

It is often said that two years at HBS prepares its graduates to lead a wide range of organizations and endeavors and to find solutions to a host of business and social challenges. Still, Kanwaljit Bakshi (MBA/JD 1999), known to friends... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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Luc Sirois

Yahoo, pre-Google, we were trying to think about how to have business models in those fields.” Another group of noteworthy campus visitors: Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien (MBA 1954) and his wife, Nan-B, whose... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology; Nonprofit / Government

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Philipp Schäelli

education. Yes throughout my two years I learned a lot about finance, operations, as well as the global economy but the education goes far beyond that. Through the case method you not only get to learn about more than 500 different companies and a range of industries... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services

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Fola Folowosele

Internationale de Football Association (thanks to an executive education student) during which we learned about the company's business model and operations. My two years at HBS helped me cross off potential... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products

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Kwame Owusu-Kesse

Why was earning an MBA at HBS important to you? To achieve success as a business leader and agent of empowerment, I knew I had to learn valuable new skills. My experiences as a junior banker, young entrepreneur, and novice service... View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Nonprofit / Government

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Fereshteh Zeineddin

for your current role & your long term career? My education at HBS taught me skills, models and frameworks to tackle everyday business problems; however, the most important lesson that I learned is that... View Details

Keywords: Retail

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Kim Chen

many different ways to address this; disruptive ideas and business models emerge with greater frequency. I look forward to contributing to this exciting shift. How has HBS prepared you for your current role... View Details

Keywords: Retail; Nonprofit / Government

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Alexandra Stanek

private business model can provide accessible toilets that are not dependent on a public sanitation system that just doesn’t exist. It was my first experience with a start-up, and it showed me how a private... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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Jonathan Evans

models every day. After HBS, I am joining a leadership rotational program at Box, a cloud management platform for enterprise that's redefining how businesses manage content. My passion for technology-driven... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entertainment / Media

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Naiyya Saggi

Organizations gave me exposure to lively debates around the best models for creating wide-scale societal impact and the role of business in doing so today. It would be an understatement to say that HBS has... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Consulting

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Jeremy Andrus

huge amount of unglamorous business activities behind the scenes that is critical to Skullcandy’s survival. Let’s talk about the glamour for a minute—the celebrity sports endorsements, team sponsorships, promotions featuring View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media

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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 View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Consulting; Nonprofit / Government

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Tiffany Pham

learning, for change. After graduating from Yale and Harvard Business School, I knew that I had to get into the industry that had impacted me as a young woman, so I could ultimately use media to impact other women like me. “I subsequently... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entertainment / Media; Technology

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Casey Gerald

design-based approach to innovation in the public sector,” and the latter through Neiman Marcus, where he worked on the president’s five-year strategic plan. Now in his first year at HBS itself, Casey eagerly describes three key... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Retail; Nonprofit / Government

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Laura Mackay

Why was earning your MBA at Harvard Business School important to you? I had gotten to a point in my professional career where I was in leadership positions, yet did not have the capabilities I needed to be an effective leader. Having... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology

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Ralph Johnson

impetus for going to business school. What are some of the most important aspects of your HBS experience? My internship, definitely, because it enabled me to pursue two other passions: politics and education. Through the Mayor’s Office... View Details