Northeastern United States - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Heidi Brooks

Be happy. Eat mangoes. Pursue my passions. Sing in the stairwell. Laugh like a hyena. Open my heart to love. Dance as often as possible. Smile frequently. Play soccer until my knees give out. Count my blessings. Be a fantastic aunt. Learn incessantly. Cry when... View Details

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Greta Gerazimaite

They knocked. They knocked on their tables loud and clear, as I was trying to put my thoughts into a coherent argument in English and speak in my soft, trembling voice for the first time in front of the professor and 90 students in an Aldrich classroom. I said maybe... View Details

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Fida Tashfia

Four men from the back of the bus stood up and pulled out big knives. One gentleman tried to protest, urging the other passengers to fight back, but everyone remained cowed in their seats. The robbers stabbed him. It was a summer evening in 1999, and I was eleven years... View Details

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Franklin Muanankese

The last message I ever received from my brother was, “I believe in you, Champ. You’ll get into HBS.” The next month, I received the worst phone call of my life. It was my sister telling me that my brother, Précieux, had passed away at 29. Précieux and I were... View Details

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Farrah Jamal

After undergraduate studies in economics and a graduate degree in political science, Farrah Jamal took another turn entirely – into health care. Ordinarily, the Shady Grove Adventist Hospital would not hire business managers without a health-care degree, says Farrah,... View Details

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Eric Sonnier

As a resident of Houston, Texas, it may have been inevitable that Eric Sonnier’s first business experience as a co-op student during his junior year in college was related to the oil and gas industry. At Caterpillar Global Petroleum Group, Eric was “responsible for a... View Details

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Emad Nadim

I leave people behind. “Hey, I am leaving Dubai. But I’ll be back.” “Dude, I am leaving Lahore. See you when I’m back.” “Mate, I am taking a break from London. Be back in a bit.” I was only nineteen days old when I first moved from one country to another. I... View Details

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Ed Kennedy

"You've never met me and my family, but your father built our home ten years ago, and we will never forget him because of that." Standing there next to my father's casket, overwhelmed by emotions, I didn't know how best to respond other than with a long,... View Details

Alumni Changing the World

Esther Hsu Wang

Esther Hsu Wang, MBA 2009, Founding Partner of IDinsight, is on a mission to change the way the world supports those in need. Based in Lusaka, Zambia and serving organizations across Africa and Asia, IDinsight uses data and measurement to help leaders in the... View Details

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Erica Hunt

Learn to say, "So what, that's just me"...and mean it. I never liked being the only kid in my neighborhood who went to Catholic schools...When I went away to college, many people questioned why I moved so far away... At work, I sometimes feel uncomfortable... View Details

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Dave Vitello

After two years in Paris, Dave Vitello exchanged the banks of the Seine for the banks of the Charles with his wife, Brita, and his two daughters, Vera and Tess. “I see HBS as similar, a parallel to our time in France,” says Dave. “In both cases, we’re intellectually... View Details

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Debbie McCoy

Caterpillars cocoon and turn into butterflies. Change, the only constant of life, is always happening to these morphing creatures. I always wonder if the animal ever knows in which phase it finds itself. My life is no different. When I've got the elated feeling of... View Details

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Dan Koloski

My biggest problem has always been that I want to do everything. Nobody ever forced me to, but I have never been good at saying "no." When I was in high school my friends used to call me "burnout" because I used to walk around so tired from all of... View Details

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Daniel Hong

I want to be constantly scolded for not having grown up. I want to be told how immature and childish I am after all these years. I want to accumulate even more injuries for attempting things that my body can no longer do. I am still laughing at inappropriate times. I... View Details

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David Gellis

David Gellis comes from a family of physicians. But during his college career, his interests swung toward journalism and even led to a stint as editor of the Harvard Crimson. Yet the medical call came to him as well. "Journalism gave me hands-on involvement, but... View Details

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Dominique Baillet

I've always had a big mouth. In third grade, I informed my teacher, Mr. Rogers, that the design for recess line-up was flawed: We kids spent disproportionate time organizing alphabetically at the cost of the very freedom recess was intended to provide. He put me in... View Details

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Curt Zimmermann

Since I started my professional career, I have been planning every step of my life. One time, I planned to go to Germany six years in advance. When I came to Harvard, I thought to myself "That's enough! Let me enjoy it and just see things happen as they do."... View Details

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Carolyn Wintner

"Put me down as Frank, please." As a five-year-old on the birthday-party circuit, Frank was my name-tag preference of choice. My naïve, tomboy self thought that all I needed was a new name, and then I would finally fit in with all the boys. I'd be able to... View Details

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Chris Williams

"I do not wish to have a thriving career at the expense of my personal life." When I wrote this as the headline of my sixth HBS application essay I figured I was an automatic "ding." I was honest and they let me in. Lesson learned. Now it's up to me... View Details

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Cindy Thanh Tran

My memory of childhood is filled with carrots - relatively cheap, good for eyesight. I grew up in Vietnam, the war-torn country which was impoverished further by a closed economy back in the 1980s. My mother was determined to do anything she could for my sisters and me... View Details

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