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Francesca Ioffreda
creating the conditions for a successful internship. They were excellent at communicating with me throughout the internship process and made me feel like part of the team immediately. My manager solicited my feedback on potential... View Details
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Danny Cho
heard of a cash flow statement in my life to performing due diligence on potential acquisition targets, assisting seasoned General Managers in go-to-market strategies, and launching a new business model. I felt comfortable contributing in... View Details
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Anddria Clack
nature of the opportunities available to us. Through learning directly from over 900 classmates - including farmers, entrepreneurs and brand managers - I was exposed to careers in business that I didn't even know existed. In participating... View Details
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Alexandra Stanek
understanding financial statements, accounting, all the fundamentals managers need. But the larger virtue of HBS is that it’s a place to be challenged. To be in a setting with 90 very sharp people and be able to speak up and represent a... View Details
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Lisa Cousins
management consulting, and wanted to move to a functional role in a company to deepen my industry knowledge and management skills. I knew that HBS, through its international reputation, strong alumni... View Details
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Nathalie du Preez
Why was getting a HBS MBA important to you? HBS, in particular, appealed to me for its general management focus, the diversity and quality of its people, its close alumni network, and of course, the case study method. I believed this... View Details
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Jackie Burgos
and held meetings not once, but twice a week. Preparing for career options In her junior year of college, Jackie visited the Harvard Business School (HBS) campus through the Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) program, and was... View Details
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Fola Folowosele
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? At Mesoamerica Energy, the wind energy company I worked at prior to business school, I held a cross functional role that straddled engineering and business development. It was through this experience that I realized... View Details
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Minal Mehta
biggest lesson from HBS that keeps coming back to me is the power of being a good manager. I keep thinking back to Professor Clay Christensen's Best of EC reflection when he called being a manager the most 'noble' profession, because you... View Details
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Brooke Boyarsky
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I felt that I had a lot to learn. I knew that the cases and skills taught at HBS would give me the foundation to be an effective general manager, and the case study method at HBS would help me develop my leadership... View Details
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Tricia Lee
perspectives, and how to debate issues in all of those contexts. HBS was an easy choice - the case method, the general management focused education, the quality of both students and faculty, and even the structure of the program all fit... View Details
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Jamira Cotton
in a team environment. However, I felt that an MBA from HBS would greatly enhance my ability to think critically and adeptly about problems from a general management perspective. I also knew that the network I would develop with my... View Details
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Kwame Owusu-Kesse
contribute positively to finding innovative solutions for disadvantaged communities. How did HBS prepare you for your internship & long term career? The training that I have received with respect to general management has and will... View Details
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Jillian Dorans
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? The short answer: I fell in love with hospitality. I'm what you would call a career-switcher. Three years into my management consulting career, I worked on a project for a large hotel... View Details
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Suchita Prasad
that I came to HBS was to discover how to make an impact on people and organizations. To be able to achieve my goals, I needed to complement my human capital background with thorough business knowledge. Prior to HBS, I had worked with Unilever India as the HR View Details
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Philipp Schäelli
to become more important in the management and investing process. After my summer experience in growth equity in Nigeria I knew that I wanted to focus on private equity for my fulltime recruitment. I also wanted to be in London because my... View Details
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Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo
which is what I'll experience in my career. I think the so-called "softer" courses in management and human resources are very important. Talking to alumni, they say a big percentage of their time is spent dealing with people... View Details
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Bruce Gago
to embrace Winston Churchill's famous quote: "Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." How has HBS prepared you for your long term career? HBS has given me the ability to "see the big picture." Investment and View Details
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Debora Lehrer
realization hit that if I wanted to advance my career in sports at a fairly steady pace, an MBA would be the best way to prepare for the management roles I had in mind. After deciding to get an advanced degree, the choice of HBS was a... View Details
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Jeremy Andrus
chain, and selling. I worked for a while as a hotel developer for a Marriott franchisee. Before HBS, I was a management consultant at Monitor, which sharpened my perspective on business and industry strategy. I learned a huge amount at... View Details