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Brian Shaw

Live outdoors. Drink freshly squeezed orange juice. Let food cook slowly on the grill. Tell the ocean what worries me. Listen to the sunset. Sleep out underneath the stars. Feel small. Go swimming in rivers. Let my insecurities flow. Run in the rain. Hang my ego to... View Details

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Brandon Gayle

In the 1970s, Brandon Gayle's family left Jamaica for New York State, where they settled in Rochester. "I watched my mother build her career over time," Brandon says, "from serving as a bookkeeper at a local television station, to night school at a... View Details

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Bobby Daly

Business and service have been parallel themes in Bobby Daly's life. In high school, he volunteered with the local ambulance corps. At Stanford, where he majored in economics, he helped organize a group of student volunteers who provided companionship for Alzheimer's... View Details

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Anjali Thakkar

“Time of death: 4:57am.” This was my first experience losing a patient. Around 4am, I was falling asleep, despite the constant din of the Emergency Room, when the Code Blue alarm sounded. I dashed out behind my team, and when we arrived, it was like a rogue wave during... View Details

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Alison Shin

“This joke only cost me $200,000 to write!” The audience laughed, but I was baffled. I couldn’t understand why my brother, who had recently become a stand-up comedian, would be so willing to tell jokes about being a medical school drop-out to a room full of strangers. ... View Details

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Agnes Sauvage

I want to get high. I want to edge risk. I want to climb to remember I am alive. I plan to leave room for Nature in my business plans. I am going to the mountains and I will bring the mountains to you. I will help you listen to the music of the Earth and resist the... View Details

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Drew Richard

What’s the one thing you’re most excited about learning at HBS? Entrepreneurship is something I’ve thought about before coming here, and HBS has given me a number ways to look into it, like the Entrepreneurial Management class and FIELD III, which taught me a lot about... View Details

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Alexandra Rethore

I am a proud 'Auntie' to six nieces and nephews, whose legs, confidence, and imaginations are growing like weeds. Each approaches life, in all its small, peculiar details, with curiosity and purpose. Mariclare is a spitfire – eager to invest herself in new things... View Details

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Alexandra Pintchouk

When I was six, my dad let me go. He chose a life that drove my family apart and forced my mom and I to move overseas. I wouldn't see him for fifteen years, and I promised to never forgive him. Feeling betrayed by a parent is the most poignant pain my heart has felt.... View Details

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Alex Pak

When my father was a young boy in Korea, his mother carried him south to escape the war. Left behind were his younger sister and grandmother. They were both too weak to travel. The borders closed, and promises of a quick return turned into years of regret. When my wife... View Details

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Amy McGowan

My history is built on the American Dream. My maternal great-great-grandparents emigrated from Germany determined to build a thriving farm in the Midwest. Hard work enabled them to live the American Dream. My Dad emerged from a life of poverty in the carpet mills of... View Details

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Ashley McCray

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I was obsessed with the strategic side of the business even though I was in a technical role. To quote Hamilton, “I wanted to be in the room where it happens.” Around this time, I was named to the Top Women in... View Details

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Ann Lucena

"A doctor," "an actress," "a teacher," my 10-year-old friends eagerly volunteered during a birthday party as my friend’s mother prompted: "what do you want to be when you grow up?" Finally it was my turn. My mind drawing a blank,... View Details

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Aspa Lekka

Aspa Lekka takes pride in her Greek roots, but her journey does not begin from Olympian heights. "I come from a small city called Ioannina in northwest Greece of ~170,000 people," she explains. "I studied math in one of the best public universities in... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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Ade' Lawal

I hope to accomplish great things. Family is the core means by which I can influence human existence in this world, therefore I'll start by being a great husband and father. I want my wife to feel that she could not have found a better man if she had a 100 more years... View Details

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Amer M. Lahham

I am standing on a Jerusalem hilltop, moments from signing the treaty of peace in the Middle East. I look east and I see Palestine, I look west and I see Israel. Accord is finally here. This moment has been a dream since I made my first speech in Junior High. I was... View Details

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Athena Ko

I am a gemologist by training. I know a piece of rough looks like any other pebble that gets caught in your shoe - it's the skilled eye and hand of a lapidary that unleash the brilliance, fire and scintillation of the diamond within. Here, I vow to be the lapidary of... View Details

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Anna King

Anna King, MBA 2015, has been a nanny, an analyst for an international spa company, an associate at an angel investment fund and the "right-hand woman" to a former White House chief of staff. She has deep interests in start-up businesses, politics, and... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Nonprofit/Government/Education

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Andrew Kinard

It's not uncommon for HBS students to attribute their interest in business to a turning point in their lives. But in Andrew Kinard's case, that point was as precise as it was violent: a blast from a roadside bomb in Iraq that left him without the use of both legs.... View Details

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Alyza Keshavjee

An explosion is followed by foreign army tanks, men pushing, women yelling, and children screaming. I turn the other way and she runs to me, arms widespread, green eyes illuminated, light brown hair flowing, smiling ear to ear. "What's wrong?" she asks.... View Details

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