Northwestern United States - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Philia Hiotis

Money is the most important thing in life. Well, not actually, but if you're poor it can make a difference. I want to contribute to improving people's lives through a career in economic development, with a focus on providing microfinance services to low-income people... View Details

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Pothik Chatterjee

I will open doors and step out of safe closets... Growing up in an Indian family and moving from Dubai to Paris in second grade was a disorienting and confusing experience. I was different from the other boys. I didn’t enjoy sports or karate. The team selection process... View Details

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Patricia Barron

Bad knees and growing boredom teaching dance led to a career shift. A friend suggested HBS – I was "at least as smart as the bottom half of his class." Hence my adventure from dancer to Board Vice Chair of a major corporation. I relish risk and change –... View Details

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Onaizah Panhwar

“But you need a shelter a man to provide security to your family” – a well-intentioned relative advised, trying to convince me to marry when I was seventeen. “I will be my own shelter I may not know how but I have faith in myself” – I protested while fighting the... View Details

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Olivia Melendez

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I had always planned to get an MBA to complement my engineering education and experience. After working for 3+ years in roles that were increasingly self-directed and broad in scope, I felt that gaining more formal... View Details

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Nelson Yuan

While studying industrial engineering at Columbia University, Nelson Yuan “felt the gravitational pull of Wall Street.” For him, engineering wasn’t an end in itself, “but a framework for looking at problems. I like to apply an engineering perspective to operations... View Details

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Nick Shurgot

I read a story recently about a troubled young man from the inner-city who had turned his life around and was set to be the first person in his family to graduate from college. He credited his success to his motto, which was, "Never take a day off."... View Details

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Nick Rosenbaum

I sit at my father’s bedroom window watching showers of fluffy cottonwood seeds. Every May, they blanket the Minnesota ground like late spring snow. Life pours down. Inside, my father is dying in bed, kidneys ravaged by cancer. Together, we wait. When he finally... View Details

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Nikhita Raman

“Make room. We all fit,” Pak Endang, our school bus driver, instructed. My classmates and I stuffed into the windowless room where we hid for hours, too shocked to react. It was the peak of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. I was in the fourth grade. That morning,... View Details

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Nvalaye Kourouma

I was seven and I was dreaming of a toy car. I made my own out of wood. I looked at my new toy and it made me very happy. I was fifteen and I was dreaming of a holiday full of parties. I convinced some merchants in my home town that they needed to purchase hand-made... View Details

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Nneka Ezeigwe

What’s the one thing you’re most excited about learning at HBS? It’s the opportunity to make a transition in my career. I’m originally from Nigeria, where I spent the first fifteen years of my life. Then I spent six years in the U.K., where I studied engineering. I... View Details

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Nathalie duPreez

When I was three years old, my dad made me a pair of wooden wings and told me that if I practiced enough, I could learn how to fly. I raced around our garden for hours but soon realized that my efforts were in vain. I see now that those wings symbolize my father's... View Details

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Noah Brodsky

Make people smile. And laugh and play, and have wonderful vacations they never forget. I am going to build resorts that bring people together. Places that strengthen the love in families and the bonds of friendship. For as long as I can remember I have wanted to run... View Details

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Marilyn Wang

“If you were a character in Gilmore Girls, you’d be Lane.” It wasn’t until years later when I finally watched the show that I realized who Lane was: the Asian-American best friend, loyal beyond compare, but always the supporting character. In the countless films and... View Details

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Maxeme Tuchman

By her junior year in high school, Max Tuchman was a hair's breadth away from dropping out. At issue were neither her grades nor conditions at home, but her disgust with the "poor quality of the Miami-Dade public schools," says Max. Just when she and her... View Details

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Mora Segal

"When I grow up, I am going to be a judge, a senator... or maybe even president! Oh no you're not, little girl..." When I was seven years old my picture appeared in an advertisement in Newsweek for the National Organization for Women (where my mother worked;... View Details

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Matias Ruiz

Growing up in Argentina with loving parents and finding the love of my life were the strongest things that shaped the person I am today. Early on when I started this fantastic experience I promised myself that I would gather some of the lessons learned here at Harvard,... View Details

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Marie-Anne Popp

I am an adventurer. From the Atacama desert in Chile to the ancient cities of Central Asia, I want to travel, explore and discover. Other cultures and civilizations have so much to teach me about myself and universal human values such as passion, courage and love. Even... View Details

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Matthew Naunheim

My parents gave me scars. The pale pink one on my left knee was from Dad, a surgeon, who meticulously sutured a puncture wound made when I fell on a rusty nail. The jagged arc on my forearm was from Mom, an emergency physician, who stitched my skin no less precisely... View Details

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M. Monique McCloud-Manley

Leave a lasting impression on someone that has doubted the capabilities of people that look like me. Make it so that he will never doubt another black woman again without first thinking about the bigotry he had towards me... and how I proved him wrong Prioritize my... View Details

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