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Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I want to be more efficient in business, more savvy in my decision-making. Long-term, I may be interested in starting my own business. The skills I learn now will be very helpful later.... View Details
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Lindsay Steinmetz
better public education, rather than a new technology, financial rewards or product. The best part of that realization though is that I have classmates choosing to be leaders in the other sectors to follow their genuine interests as well,... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
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Ralph Johnson
for you? I’m going to work with McKinsey in Chicago as a generalist. Consulting gives me the flexibility to find where my skills work best and to discover what I’m most interested in. Long-term, I hope I can have an impact on education:... View Details
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Rocio Parra
Why was getting a business education important to you? As a consultant, I had the opportunity to work in a variety of industries from pharmaceuticals and medical devices to government and consumer packaged goods. Through these experiences, I became View Details
Keywords: Retail
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Andres Sarmiento
it before. HBS also prepared me to communicate at different levels with the team of developers, their management, the product managers, the sales team, and our customers. All of whom have different interests and communicate differently... View Details
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Ann Chao
different countries and industries to learn with and learn from. As a Social Studies/East Asian Studies concentrator with a strong interest in disability rights and education as well as entertainment and performing arts, I still felt... View Details
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Cynthia Samanian
diverse network of alumni. Given my interest in consumer internet startups, I was very excited to connect with the HBS alumni network, which includes highly respected venture capitalists and successful entrepreneurs. In just my two years... View Details
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Alexandra Stanek
express myself maturely. Were you always interested in development? Actually, I was always interested in Sub-Saharan Africa precisely because it’s so different from where I come from. The development part... View Details
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Eric D'Arbeloff
studio Lionsgate owns a minority stake in his company. Seeing so many interesting films struggle to make it into a theater was his impetus for starting Roadside. "Hollywood is a dream factory. We're kind of the factory part of it,... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media
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Yi-An Huang
who had interviewed at BMC suggested that I look into it. In what ways did your MBA influence your career path? It gave me time to explore, to clarify what I really wanted. At first, I was interested in for-profit businesses, but as I... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
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Claire Freidman
interesting positions in New York and Los Angeles and realized that an MBA was a pre-requisite for many of these types of roles. HBS appealed to me in particular because of the vast network of alumni in the media and entertainment... View Details
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Katie Laidlaw
your experience as co-president of the Social Enterprise Club shape your career goals within the social enterprise sector? The most exciting part of serving in this role involved recruiting people new to social enterprise and seeing leaders of the club take personal... View Details
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Arvind Chandrababu
interaction, and greater personal impact. To make the career shift, I applied for and was accepted into HBS’ 2+2 program. For my first year of work, I taught 9th grade math in Houston, then I spent another year in India, first as a teacher, then as an assistant... View Details
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John Rogers
professors and peers across the Harvard community, provided the flexibility that I needed to strengthen specific skills and focus on the aspects of business and society that interested me the most. Supporting the classroom with practice,... View Details
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Ben Faw
For Ben Faw, a lifelong interest in both military history and leadership made West Point a logical destination. But upon graduation, when Ben had many options at his disposal, he responded to a calling that went deeper than mere logic. “I... View Details
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Brittani Rettig
comment—so embarrassing. However, it sparked a really interesting discussion among our section and brought us together in a sort of familial way. Business leadership is more than generating a profit; it is adding value to the lives of... View Details
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Lisa Cousins
aligned with my interests and values. The significant support from Career & Professional Development, challenge and learning from the case method, and inspiration from deep, meaningful discussions with classmates all helped me uncover... View Details
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Annora Wang
What was the shape of your career before pursuing your MBA? I worked in finance, on Wall Street. I enjoyed analysis, but wasn’t always interested in the types of business I got involved in. As an undergraduate at the University of... View Details
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Patrick Connolly
otherwise. Moreover, coming into business school, I knew I wanted to pursue a career in finance as it plays to my intellectual interests and quantitative aptitude. The exposure I've been afforded-to eminent professors and scholars, to... View Details
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Oliver Bladek
however, HBS has made me consider opportunities that I previously shunned. While I'm still keenly interested in general management (trying to get P+L and people responsibility sooner rather than later), I now think that a... View Details