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Allen Yang

While Allen Yang certainly has the intellectual chops to tackle big ideas, he's always had a hunger for the tangible and the practical—for hands-on reality. "In college, I studied economics," Allen says. "But it was all theoretical. I wanted to see how... View Details

Keywords: CPG; Tech; Financial Services

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Abhi Sharma

I plan to change the odds. So there I was, procrastinating while trying to finish Friday's cases, when out of idle curiosity I decided to find out who else from back home had walked these halls, sat in these chairs, made these friends. I'll be honest: I was also... View Details

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Amy Sennett

With her undergraduate background in international relations, Amy Sennett’s fellowship at the China Foreign Affairs University, where she taught oral English and current events, was a natural fit for her talents. While the experience was rewarding, it also challenged... View Details

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Alok Sanghvi

"Drive a red Porsche" is probably what I would have responded 15 years ago. Back then I fully expected to be a lawyer, married, and able to dunk a basketball by now. Well, things have changed since my days of ripped jeans. Today, I'm more concerned with the... View Details

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Andrew Pratt

What’s the one thing you’re most excited about learning at HBS? In my previous life, I worked on making spacecraft and satellites – aerospace has always been a passion of mine. When I came to Harvard, I wanted to come at it from a different angle. In the FIELD... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

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Ahmet Orhon

There are very few things in life that hurt as much as not being able to help an 11-year-old girl... Particularly, if you feel that you are her only chance... In Turkey, almost a million students take an exam after primary school to be able to attend a decent secondary... View Details

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Ali Nuger

I refuse to decide, and I won’t let other women have to decide. As a little girl, my sister and I would dress up as cleaning ladies and prance around the house dusting. I would cook in my play kitchen and pretend to be a mother to my dolls. I never put on a play suit... View Details

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Anh M. Nguyen

My mom travels with a frying pan. A fifty-cent yard sale purchase, the pan makes the world's best banh xeo, a Vietnamese dish. To most people, the grease-stained sides and wobbly handle suggest nothing more than an unexceptional piece of cookware. But to my parents,... View Details

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Ashley Ng

My dad isn’t so smart. School-smart, that is. He didn't build a company, invest in a portfolio, or hold graduate degrees. In fact, he doesn't even hold a high-school degree. Yet, my dad is the smartest man I know. I could always count on him for a solution – not to... View Details

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Amy Huynh

We often associate magic with the extraordinary and the unexpected. I've learned that magic is, in fact, omnipresent; and can be found in moments as quotidian as a morning walk to work, or in things as simple as a smile. We just have to discover that magic. Nearly... View Details

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Arnab Mishra

I shall savor the time I am given, for it is not the destination that makes life meaningful but moments along the way. I want to get married on a beautiful fall day near my love's childhood home on the plains of Virginia. I want to remember the feelings of anxiety,... View Details

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Ann Lucena

Although Ann Lucena dual-majored in biology and Spanish at Stanford, it was her two undergraduate internships that set the direction of her future work. At ABC News, Ann "got to work on an hour-long special about the effects of negative stereotypes. "As a... View Details

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Arielle Loeb

I want whatever I do to make my socks go up and down. It's like cartoon characters: when they get excited or see something they love, their socks go up and down. I want to find such a job, whether it's selling Cheerios, doing something to improve the education system... View Details

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Andrew Levine

I want to fail. Not have a setback or a misstep. I want a failure so bad that future HBS students will unanimously agree that I’m a blockhead when they read the case about my actions. Growing up, I wanted to be an actor. Along the way, I discovered that I could make... View Details

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Allison Kotzin

When I was growing up, my Dad could not drive me to sports practice like the other fathers in my neighborhood. He could not pick me up in his arms, and he could not walk. I helped feed my dad dinner and combed his hair. I would sit for hours by his wheelchair talking... View Details

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Asaf Gilboa

"My Beautiful Girls, I'm writing this letter from the hospital, a few hours before you're expected to come into the world. And all I can feel is a cocktail of excitement mixed with fear..." Twelve hours after sealing this letter, my world was turned upside... View Details

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Annie Fulton

I can’t recall the first time I held a hammer. It must have been in Dad’s basement workshop, where I spent much of my childhood making things: a gymnastics set for my dolls, a birdhouse for Mother’s Day, a bed for my room. It was definitely before I was ten, when I... View Details

Alumni Changing the World

Abby Falik

Abby Falik, MBA 2008, founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year, is rethinking the traditional gap-year experience for high school graduates. In ten years, Global Citizen Year has supported nearly 1,000 fellows in experiential, community-level project work in Asia,... View Details

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Austin Dirks

My gaze fixed upon the exposed beating heart. There was an infant lying in front of me. Its heart rate 150 beats per minute. The monitor next to me beeping faintly with each twitch of the revealed organ. The skin, the muscle, the ribs, all pulled back, exposing an... View Details

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Ann DeWitt

After five years as a research scientist at 3M, Ann DeWitt was ready for managerial responsibilities that would require a new set of skills. "I wondered how I would make the transition," Ann says. "In slow steps or in one big leap?" Subsequent... View Details

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