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Jeremy Sasson

With a father and three uncles in the Bay Area software industry, Jeremy Sasson witnessed entrepreneurship firsthand. “They did a lot flying by the seat of their pants,” he says. “My father stressed to me: If I ever had an opportunity to get a formal business... View Details

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Julie Russell

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other with us. My family and loved ones taught me that I could do whatever I dreamed of, and this idea travels with me throughout my journeys. Indeed, I would never have even... View Details

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Jocelyne Moyer

Bankruptcy is a word I learned very young. Bankruptcy is when a company's liabilities exceed its assets, so a process is used to sort everything out. But to me, bankruptcy is the process of my family tearing apart. It is having the locks changed on our doors. It is... View Details

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Jamal Motlagh

From an early age, Jamal Motlagh was immersed in the figurative waters of business – his father is a civil engineer who successfully launched his own firm – and in literal water itself. "I've been swimming since I was three," Jamal says. "Then my brother... View Details

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Jaime Mendez

Jaime Mendez' high school choir director was such a powerfully positive influence in his life that at one point, he seriously considered becoming a music teacher himself. After Harvard, he went to Goldman Sachs instead, but his initial passion still played an important... View Details

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Jen Lee

At the age of ten, I learned to sit very still on the edge of a chair with my two feet firmly planted on the floor. Holding my cello, I would always start my practice sessions by playing an open C-string just loud enough to feel the vibration go through my body like... View Details

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Joshua Jarrett

I want to always remember the number 6.65 million. That's the number of people in the world who will make less than each of the Harvard Business School graduates this year. $25,000 a year is enough to put you in the top 1% of incomes worldwide. Meanwhile, the average... View Details

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Jessica Gelman

When I was twelve years old I wrote my life aspirations in the back of a journal. I wanted to play Division I college basketball. I also dreamed of going to Harvard Business School and envisioned owning a company. Believe it or not, I wanted to invent a "gun"... View Details

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Jose Fernandez

The best things in my life were never carefully planned: I was lucky to be born to a great family, came by chance to the US, certainly did not grow up wishing to go to Harvard, and only by chance found someone to love at HBS. My only talent has been being able to jump,... View Details

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Jennifer DeWhitt

Before entering Harvard Business School in 2012, Jennifer DeWhitt, MBA 2013, had been very seriously working at Bain—and just as tenderly working on a children's book with her grandmother. "While I was getting my degree, I didn't know if I wanted to be a... View Details

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Jeremy Burnham

In the past year, Jeremy Burnham, a chemical engineer with a background in oil and energy, has experienced a dizzying succession of transitions. “Last June, my wife Perisha and I moved to Cambridge,” Jeremy explains. “In July, she gave birth to our daughter, Maya. Then... View Details

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Joel Bryce

Africa's sufferings and celebrations are a thief that has stolen my heart. Why, you ask? A simple, innocuous question. I'm asked it all the time. Why are you spending spring break working with Kenyan enterprises in Nairobi? Why did you spend your internship consulting... View Details

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Jeanine Barnett

You don't walk away unscathed from an accident where the Greyhound bus you are on crashes into an 18-wheeler — killing and injuring all but a handful — and not wonder why you were spared. I stood there with the other survivors — sore, stunned, almost ashamed of the... View Details

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Inessa Lurye

When Inessa Lurye arrived at Swarthmore, she resolutely “did not want to have anything to do with the environment” she had recently left the inner-city Baltimore-area neighborhood she and her parents emigrated to after fleeing Belarus in 1992. But the combined call of... View Details

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Inigo Amoribieta

I plan to travel far. Our world today is one of superstar athletes, teenage popstars, business executives, news reporters, and central bankers. One where we value people by the end points they reach in life, but not by the roads they have traveled to reach them. Is... View Details

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Harman Kochar

If life could be planned I would have already – Eradicated Poverty from the World Controlled Global Warming Established World Peace Cured all Diseases Discovered the fountain of youth and last but not the least.... Built my mansion on moon.... ....but what I have... View Details

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Hope Carlson

I learned to sing at the same time I learned to talk. My dad would rock me to sleep every night and have me fill in the words to his lullabies. That's when my love for music was first sparked. To sing well, you have to let go. To accept yourself as you are in the... View Details

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Frank Wei

"Men wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success." Sir Ernest Shackleton placed this advertisement in a London newspaper to recruit... View Details

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Fred Smith

Fred Smith comes from an impressive of line of entrepreneurs. His grandfather founded what would become the largest tour company in Jamaica. Fred's father created his own tour company, then extended the family's interests into real estate, rental cars, and service... View Details

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Frances Dixon

As an undergraduate attending Tufts, Frances Dixon was deeply impressed by the idea of service to others. While searching out how to accomplish this life goal, she was inspired by the military officers she met. “They were clearly leaders,” she says. “They walked into a... View Details

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