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Minh Chau

I will live each day like it is everyone else's last. It was Sunday March 13th, 2011. I was helping my parents load up their car to head back to Pennsylvania. I had just moved to NYC after college, and my parents came to help me settle in. With everything in the trunk,... View Details

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Myoung Cha

To be changed by the world around me. Many people come to HBS to "change the world." I was one of those people. But I have come to realize that it is HBS that has changed me. I have learned how to optimize a cranberry factory, absorbed life lessons from a... View Details

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Missy Blakeley

I'll share with you a dirty little secret: all these wonderful opportunities... scare the heck out of me...! When I was growing up, my parents told me I could do anything I set my mind to – yet I was still not allowed to bike past the stop sign. But now – thanks to a... View Details

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Monica Gupta Adractas

I am living the life of a five year old girl I have never met. A stranger I imagine. She has pigtails, is dirty, poor, and is busy fetching water in the slums of India. A bicycle rushes past me and I awake to find myself well-dressed, crossing the Charles River.... View Details

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Lorrayne Ward

The woman carefully unwrapped three coins from her threadbare kanga and pushed them toward the shopkeeper. There was a mixture of desperate hope and resignation on her face. Though my Swahili was basic, I made out that she wanted to buy medicine for her son, sick at... View Details

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Lisandra Rickards

I'm in love with my island. I am inspired there, I know the people there, I want to raise a family there, I want to make a difference there. But life is hard there. An atmosphere of discontent hovers after decades of dashed hopes — leaving anger and violence in its... View Details

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Lourdes Long

Human energy is renewable energy. My energy doesn't come from pipelines or wires. My energy comes from tackling intellectual and personal challenges. I once told my father I had to stop studying medicine because, "I wanted to do something important with my... View Details

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Linda Leung

In her junior and senior undergraduate years, Linda Leung fulfilled the dream job of nerds, or at least Star Wars enthusiasts, worldwide: she developed simulation models for ion propulsion engines, the real-world technology behind the fictional TIE (Twin Ion Engine)... View Details

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Luke Henesy

"Mister, if we get that 80 percent," Carmeron said, "you better get that tattoo on your ribs, 'cause that's where it hurts the most." I agreed without hesitation. The odds of my students outperforming the honors kids, who typically averaged in the... View Details

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Leslie Feinzaig

I no longer have big dreams. I have little dreams; simple, happy, cozy dreams. Most professors urge you to think big – all except my marketing teacher, who said: "Think Little". So now, my aims are leaps, but my thoughts are in baby steps. And that is my big... View Details

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Lou DiLorenzo

I want to repay my debt. I am indebted to all of the people who have taken a chance on me in one form or another. At most of the major crossroads in my life there has always been someone – at times a stranger – who has helped me. Some made personal sacrifices like my... View Details

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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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