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Maharukh Sorabji

I want to make people feel at home, even if they're thousands of miles away from it. Every time I went to Coonoor on break from boarding school, Aunty Shirin would bake me a chocolate cake. It wasn't home - that was far away in Bombay - but in the Nilgiri hills of... View Details

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Matt Simpson

You don’t look like you belong here. Just seven words, spoken by someone I didn’t know, whose name I don’t remember. Outwardly I tried to smile, laugh it off, just get through class. Inwardly I was breaking. I had made it to the Ivy League, the first in my family to go... View Details

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Margaret Regan

I am from a small southwest Louisiana town and grew up with ten siblings. My dad was a major source of inspiration and strength for me. My sense of myself was forged in my extended family. Did I think I would go to HBS when I was eight years old and lost my mom to... View Details

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Mike Monagle

When Mike Monagle was at Princeton University, the undergraduate obligation to learn a second language became an unexpected inspiration for an enduring interest. “I took Mandarin on a whim,” Mike says. “I thought it would be relevant and fun.” In the summer between his... View Details

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Miguel López de Silanes

I am very fortunate. Fortunate for my family who instilled me with the values of hard work and generosity. Fortunate to have known the world. Fortunate to have had amazing educational opportunities in life. Fortunate to have known many and to have learned from them.... View Details

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Michelle Lee

After obtaining a degree from Dartmouth College and completing three years of consulting with Bain & Company and then a couple more in Education Tech, Michelle Lee took the next, not-so-obvious step: she baked cupcakes. "I've always been a huge baker,"... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Retail/Hospitality

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Michael Lage

I want to light up the world. Like fireworks in the sky. Or sunrises over the ocean. Or campfires in the woods. My eleven-year-old brother fought the darkness of cancer with his light – through his bright spirit and radiant attitude. The flash of his smile as he... View Details

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Marlene Krauss

I like to be a pioneer. I have changed what I do every decade to meet the latest new challenge or to fulfill a dream. I have been an investment banker, feminist activist, Harvard medical student and medical resident, retinal surgeon, venture capitalist, mother of... View Details

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Marijana Kolak

Looking back, I feel the paths worth taking were those I followed with my heart: my trip to the US eleven years ago; the long journey later from a 300-people village in the Idaho wilderness to a small Midwestern town and to the nation's capital; and the decision to... View Details

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Molly Jacobson

We inhaled soil and hay until we coughed black. On a cold autumn day on my family’s farm, the field crew was spreading winter cover over the strawberry field. We hauled wet hay bales off the pickup truck and dragged them down dirt trenches. With numb fingers, we... View Details

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Max Hodges

More people need art: the thick, anguished brush strokes of a Van Gogh; the high, soaring notes of an overture; the whisper and promise of an opening curtain. And more people need a stage: I am humbled by my and my classmates' potential to give a voice to those who do... View Details

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Martin Gonzalez

I used to believe that my purpose in this world was to conquer it. I planned to have a successful career in high tech and quickly become an expert in my field. But the year 2001 brought humility and perspective to my life in a series of very emotional and life-changing... View Details

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Margarita Golod

I want to have the courage to ask questions. Serious questions, embarrassing questions, aspirational questions, even silly questions. The power of questions is undeniable. Questions have been the building blocks of my relationships with others because they enable me to... View Details

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Marwan Chaar

I grew up in a region synonymous with two things: Energy and Islam. Both have recently been threatened, and both will have to adapt in order to survive. We are caretakers of the world that was gifted to us. The climate is changing and we are responsible. Not our... View Details

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Matt Beecher

Send me to a grocery store-I'm happy there. I want to rescue that old lady trying to reach olives on the top shelf, and then listen intently as she tells me about the greatest casserole ever made. During checkout, I've got a killer story about the zucchini people,... View Details

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Mohit Bathija

I, a diminutive nine year-old child of nothing but skin and bones ... View Details

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Maya Babu

Government policy changed the way Maya Babu thinks about health care. For a summer internship, she worked in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of Health and Human Services. "It was run very much like a small corporation," Maya... View Details

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Mike Anders

“When will you have a girlfriend?” My Lebanese grandmother asked me for the 100th time. “I don’t know ” I laughed and quickly changed the subject. See the thing is, I won’t ever have a girlfriend because I’m gay. I grew up in suburban Maryland and went to an all-boys... View Details

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Lindsay Rosenblum

“Focus,” I told myself. “You only have 6 hours 42 minutes to finish.” I had read the opening sentence of the exam seven times, and the words weren’t sticking. When I was 12, I was diagnosed with dyslexia. I was told that I would be given extra time in school. Somewhere... View Details

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LaToya Marc

Growing up in small towns in Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas, LaToya Marc found her passion for social justice tempered by the practical need to make a decent living. "I was raised by a single mother who stressed the importance of education as a way to a higher... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Nonprofit/Government/Education

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