Eastern United States - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Lyn Baranowski

At age 15, I spent the summer as an exchange student in France, and the world of a small-town girl from New Hampshire opened up. The experience catalyzed in me a fundamental belief in the importance of building relationships across existing borders as a way of breaking... View Details

Alumni Changing the World

Luciana Baigun

Luciana Baigun, MBA 2014, wants to revolutionize the landscape of cities around the world. At the electronic scooter company Bird, Baigun is putting her management skills at the service of others and the planet. View Details

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Laura Arjona

For Laura Arjona, engineering interests simply "tied into my personality and family background." When Laura was just two years old, her parents fled from Panama and its "strongman," Manuel Noriega, to Texas and then Idaho. Her father earned master's... View Details

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Kurt White

With a degree in civil engineering, Kurt White had imagined a post-Army life in which he “designed skyscrapers and stadiums – large civil projects.” But after two tours in Iraq, “I found it amazingly rewarding to lead soldiers every day. I loved what I did as a platoon... View Details

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Keima Ueno

I stand with my mother in the doorway, as my father leaves for another day at the helm of the small family business. Life revolved around the business. My father frequently took me to his office and often hosted his employees in our home. Being but a small child, I... View Details

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Kimberly Dionne Spears

I want to dispel the belief that "every man is an island" because I refuse to live bound by the ignorance that isolation brings. I want to embrace the freedom to explore the world to no end. Traveling to nontraditional places; absorbing more than tourist... View Details

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Kurt Scherer

I want to keep the sparkle in the eyes of my three glorious children. And others. How can you make the hope that resides in every person grow and thrive? I was standing in Afghanistan two years ago, surrounded by innocent, magnificent children, and it struck me how... View Details

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Kristin Meyer

Everywhere I look, I see miracles. They manifest themselves delightfully in the tiny details of my everyday life. Miracles surround and delight me at every turn... ...in the buttery slats of sunlight winking down through tree branches on crisp fall mornings...in a... View Details

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Kimble McCraw

In her undergraduate internships, Kimble McCraw learned a few hard truths about her engineering career path. "As a whole, engineers are very smart," Kimble says, "but they don't get to make the big business decisions. It's frustrating. I realized that... View Details

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Kishan Madamala

I really loved our green lawn mower. It broke when I was four years old, and I cried as my dad tried to throw it away. When the garbage truck arrived, I held onto the lawn mower with all the strength my little hands could muster. You see, when I was young, I believed... View Details

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Kirsten Hassert

I will unleash my own Inner Spiderman...with his motto: "With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility." I'll keep believing in the power of People, of 'Small' Things, and of Being Real – and use this to empower myself and teammates to achieve. For me, to... View Details

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Kaelin Goulet

I was a 17-year old Ayn Rand devotee. The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Anthem — I couldn't trumpet loudly enough Rand's message of individualism and self-determination. That 17-year-old self wouldn't know what to make of me now. Maybe it was coming of professional age... View Details

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Kelly Cheng

I am always running. Running to submit that HBS application at the eleventh hour. Racing to Aldrich for class. Sprinting to deliver my résumé to recruiters. Running along the Charles (for fun!). Early in the first year, before TOM turned into LEAD, I learned about... View Details

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Jodi Yang

Boston is where I come to die and be reborn. At seventeen I came to mourn the death of my first love — music — and my grandfather, a hero who proudly led thousands into battle for his country, though he had little formal education. I found solace in Harvard Square... View Details

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Jayon Wang

I might as well just get used to people laughing at my ideas. At age 5, I told my mother that driving a dump-truck was my dream job. I can still hear her sweet and loving laughter. In the 10th grade, that same ambitious boy tried to invent super ice, so cold that a... View Details

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John Regan

During my darkest days in college, I could only look inward, brooding over my own black-and-white world of mental pain and self-pity, oblivious to the vibrant life around me. My external circumstances were enviable – a privileged existence with a loving family, loyal... View Details

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John Coleman

As a blond-haired little boy growing up in Tallahassee, Florida, my earliest memories were of my mom reading to me every day in our living room. The Poky Little Puppy, The Little Engine that Could, "The Berenstain Bears — I listened wide-eyed and concentrated on... View Details

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Jeremy Lipstein

A high-school economics class sparked Jeremy Lipstein's growing interest in all things business-related. "I liked the way it explained the behaviors of individuals, firms, and governments," Jeremy says. At Colgate, he continued his economic studies, adding a... View Details

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Justine Lelchuk

After studying finance, marketing and Mandarin – "China is the future," she believes – Justine Lelchuk had three clear goals for her first post-graduation job. "First, I had to travel. I didn't want to stay behind a desk. I also had to be challenged. I... View Details

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Jessica Kramer

As an economics major at Dartmouth looking for career direction, Jessica Kramer saw Morgan Stanley’s employment offer as “a good way to earn my chops” in business. Two years selling interest-rate derivatives in New York City, plus another three in San Francisco, gave... View Details

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