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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

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Other Financial Services; Services

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Yi-An Huang

internal consulting group. How is your current job related to your HBS experience? When I came to HBS, I had been working in global health and development issues. I had realized that healthcare is an exciting sector with powerful social... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

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Andres Sarmiento

perform as a product manager in a top organization. While at HBS I met peers that had worked in Venture Capital who cleared my understanding of those career paths. I also participated in technology industry... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; Services

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Tricia Lee

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I've always dreamt of not only working in the entertainment industry, but changing the way people experience it through technology and new formats. After graduating from Stanford, I ended... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Technology; Entrepreneurship

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Ralph Johnson

Why did you want the MBA? After graduating from Hampton University, I went to work with Accenture—I thought I could work across different functions and industries to find my calling. But I ended up View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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Brooke Boyarsky

& career path? Coming into HBS I wasn't sure what I would want to do after I graduated. Reading over 500 cases gave me a broad exposure to different industries and functions. Speaking with section mates with such diverse backgrounds gave me the inside scoop on what... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Technology

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Rawiah Abdallah

Why was getting a business education important to you? Getting a business education among people with diverse backgrounds exposes you to many different skills and opportunities. After working for four years, it has been a great time to... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Other Financial Services

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Cynthia Samanian

students interested in working at startups. This group was incredibly supportive during my internship search, and several of us developed friendships through our similar career interests. The following year, I View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

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Shaun Miller

exciting it could be to live and work abroad - and thus I was able to chart a path that would take me there. Back on campus, the global perspective and reach of HBS provided me with the resources to achieve this goal. What are you most... View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Consulting; Nonprofit / Government

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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... View Details

Keywords: Services; Consulting

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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... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Manufacturing

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Charles Jennings

How has HBS prepared you for your current role and your long term career? HBS has improved my mental flexibility in handling new and challenging situations by exposing me to a wide variety of extremely talented individuals. I am better able to connect and View Details

Keywords: Energy / Extractive Minerals; Manufacturing; Other Financial Services

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Nikki Skovran

Africa. “I was impressed by the entrepreneurial energy there,” she says. “It was great to see that on the ground.” Her team worked with the Awethu Project, a startup incubator that exchanges business skills training for equity stakes in... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Consulting; Entrepreneurship

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Francesca Ioffreda

innovate and apply design thinking principles. Finally, I was excited about getting to meet and work with Boston-based health care startups and develop partnership strategies. Looking back on your internship, what did CVS Health do well... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

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Tim Nicolette

graduating from Columbia, I worked for a year with a nonprofit. I was deeply committed to the mission, but I realized the administration didn’t have the strategy, management, and organizational skills necessary to maximize impact. Also, I... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit; Nonprofit / Government

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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

Keywords: Consulting

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Lisa Cousins

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I grew up in a very small town – you could call it “the middle of nowhere” – and have always been a bit of a dreamer, with aspirations to be a leader in the travel industry from a very young age. After earning my... View Details

Keywords: Services; Entertainment / Media

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Maria Brewer

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? During my time in operations, the more I was able to work with multiple areas of the business and see how they interact, the more excited I was by my work. Observing how one decision in a... View Details