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Ryan Kennedy

I have a special place in my heart for McDonald's. Not the Happy Meals or golden fries. I value the opportunity that McDonald's provided my family. My dad started work there at age sixteen, and my mom joined soon after. Both worked hard, saved every penny, and... View Details

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Ross Galloway

I hate printers. Sure, we all get Office Space style impulses when the printer jams. But my loathing can be traced back to a single event when I was 14 years old. While sitting in my room, a document mistakenly printed out titled “Insurance Claim for Perry Galloway’s... View Details

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Robert Carpenter

A great story needs more than lead characters – which is wonderful, because the spotlight has never been comfortable for me. Many of my most fulfilling experiences in life have been on the sidelines – fostering community around a dinner table, listening, celebrating... View Details

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Paul Wang

At Harvard, Paul Wang’s studies in economics gave him an important theoretical understanding of international development issues. But two summers spent in Africa made them personal. Through the university’s Christian Fellowship, Paul taught English to Sudanese... View Details

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Paolo Tosato

Over time, I have come to realize that talents are rare and precious: "To one he gave five talents; to another, two; and to another, one; each according to his own ability." In my life, I have received many, many talents in the form of gifts. These have... View Details

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Paul Sternhell

I did not imagine that I could be a successful student until a fourth grade teacher showed me a better way to study. My leadership capabilities went unused before friends encouraged me to run for club officer positions in college. If you told me five years ago that I... View Details

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Peter Park

My friend Iminza is a thirty-six year old single mom living with HIV. She received a paycheck for the first time in her life six months ago by making papyrus notebooks for our handicraft business in Kenya. I had worked closely with Iminza since she joined us, and had... View Details

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Pasha Nahass

Pasha Nahass entered Stanford with an interest in political science and an eye toward government service. But in his freshman year, he took a computer science course “just to get the applied engineering requirement out of the way.” To his surprise, Pasha fell in love... View Details

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Paul Luning

No stranger to entrepreneurship, Paul Luning launched one Internet startup in high school and helped grow two more while at Rice: an online marketing firm and a wireless hardware company. But a semester in Australia broadened Paul's interests. "They face a huge... View Details

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Patrick Chun

My grandfather taught me best; a former South Korean general, who even through his eighties, would wake up before sunrise to start his day. A man who would run miles shirtless, exposing scars from deep stab-wounds. Wounds that came from combat in a brutal war decades... View Details

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Onay Payne

As I look around a conference room filled with the partners of a highly regarded real estate private equity firm, I’m excited. Only four of the 35 people in the room are women. Similarly, only four of the 35 are not Caucasian. I’m one of the four in each case. Last... View Details

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Natasha Pereira-Kamath

As a child, I loved blackouts. The adventure always started with melting ice cream. Within seconds of my grandparents' house going dark, my mouth would start watering. While we were lucky enough to have a generator, it never produced enough power for our energy-hungry... View Details

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Nicole Hanrahan

When I tell people I want to run an employment program for homeless drug addicts, many think I'm absolutely crazy. However, I want to devote my career to building just such a business. My pre-MBA experience of providing job training to homeless people with disabilities... View Details

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Nina Bilimoria

I hear an ambulance siren at 2 AM, and I think, "Someone's family is having a horrible day." I leave yet another lecture on poverty reduction, and I think, "There's so much on the world's to-do list for this short lifetime." I approach the world as... View Details

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Michael Worosz

It took a moment of profound despair for me to grasp what Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "in our youth our hearts were touched with fire... given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing." Knowing that my friends had perished on... View Details

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Maxene Tuchman

"A kid got shot at the football game on Friday. Is he one of your students?" I was a teacher at Miami Northwestern High School, and my Teach For America summer training had not prepared me for the phone call I received from a friend, one Sunday night in... View Details

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Marques Torbert

Although Marques Torbert is too well-mannered to say so himself, he projects an aura of potential that naturally attracts opportunities his way. “My family doesn’t have a background in business or finance or higher education,” Marques says in understated appreciation... View Details

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Matt Thurmond

While his high school peers may have been mowing lawns or packing grocery bags, Matt Thurmond became a serial entrepreneur. "It was a choice between making $5.15 an hour or starting my own business," he says. As a teenager, Matt started a car-detailing... View Details

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Marc Ricks

I will work long hours, endure stress, and use PowerPoint... lots of PowerPoint. I'll put up with that and more if I can have impact. I'll choose the bloodshot eyes and caffeine twitch that come from sleep deprivation if my efforts create change. In the short term the... View Details

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Mark Plunkett

I have worked hard to define for myself what I consider to be a life without regret, that is, a successful life. In pursuing this, I have come to realize that what is most critical is that I maintain a meaningful balance among the professional, the philanthropic, and... View Details

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