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Hayling Price

It didn't take me long to realize I had won the birth lottery. Of course it would be satisfying to think that I landed at Harvard purely as a result of my own hard work. But the truth is, the financial and social capital I happened to inherit placed me on this... View Details

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Guillermo Villanueva

There are two ways to live: one as if nothing were a gift, the other as if everything were. I want to live thanking every day for the gifts I have received: a family, friends, education, and health. I want to live acknowledging that having all these gifts is a... View Details

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Giuseppe Morgana

What’s the one thing you’re most excited about learning at HBS? The number-one thing is the ability to participate in different entrepreneurial ventures. Since coming to HBS, I’ve been able to fulfill that passion through a combination of resources like the iLab, the... View Details

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Graham Evans

I came to Harvard Business School hoping to find answers, but will leave only with questions. Do I want money? While billions is not necessary I want a large enough cushion to avoid living in a far-flung suburb and to tell my Boss to take a hike whenever I feel like... View Details

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Felipe Núñez

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? My instincts told me it was the right move. Coming to HBS is like... ...those moments in Fleabag when Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s character looks directly at the audience for a split second there’s a sense of delighted... View Details

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Ferran Ayala

You have to be "luchadores" (fighters) to make things happen in life. Success does not come easy, and you have to fight to earn it. This was the lesson that my parents taught my brothers and me as children. Through trial and error I slowly became convinced... View Details

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Eduardo Weinstein

It was a perfect day. I was traveling through Peru's valleys, and in my train car there was a group of more than 30 elderly friends — men and women in their 70s. They knew that it would probably be the last time that all of them would travel together, but they were... View Details

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Emily Hoffman

Growing up, my Dad asked me not to be ordinary. Being an overly inquisitive kid, I'd ask him relentlessly what exactly he meant by that. To me, life in suburbia meant blending in. Wasn't I supposed to have the right shoes? Say the right things? Learn the right... View Details

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Daniel Serna

As a boy, Dan Serna rode in his uncle's pick-up truck over the family's farms in Texas. But what might have been a cherished pastoral memory, instead became an inspiration. In high school, Dan served as an Information Ranger at Appleton Farms in Ipswich, Massachusetts,... View Details

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Douglas Raymond

I am trying to live my life to minimize regret: I want to live so I will never have to look back and wonder what might have been. I want to trek through the Alps before I am too old and too busy. I want to live in China while I still have the chance to learn Chinese. I... View Details

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Derrick Leung

I earned my first promotion at the age of eight. "Up to the front," my father directed, "you get to hold the map." Starting my inaugural tour as first mate, I was eager to uncover our buried treasure – the endpoint of our family road trip. Even... View Details

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Diane Hessan

I grew up in a working-class town where children grew up, got married, and moved into their childhood homes. Everyone was happy but didn't much care about the rest of the world. I read every copy of National Geographic I could, and on a school assignment where I wrote... View Details

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Damali Brown

After her first full year of college at Spelman, Damali Brown returned to her hometown, as many students do, to find summer employment. But in Buffalo, New York, Damali says, "The best-paying job available was at a local brass mill, doing blue-collar work. That... View Details

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Cynthia Samanian

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Carter Romansky

The creative side of the pharmaceutical industry engaged Carter Romansky in every aspect of the business: science, marketing, finance, law. But when his job became "less about its original goal (creating value for patients through innovation) and more about a... View Details

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Carl Petty

I look at the rest of my life as one big bonus round. The decade I spent flying fighters in the Navy was a childhood dream come true – more than I ever could have asked for. But I left the Navy feeling an obligation placed on me by terrible chance – the loss of friends... View Details

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Cara McDonough

I lost my dad when I was nineteen. He suffered from an undiagnosed, rare heart condition. Fittingly to those who knew him well, his heart was literally too big. After he was gone, I couldn't believe I had missed the opportunity to say goodbye, to ask him for advice one... View Details

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Clive Chang

I will create. I will create art in its most visceral, intellectual, and emotionally charged sense. I will produce music and theater that challenges, excites, and provokes action for the casual Broadway spectator as much as it does for the seasoned, discerning patron... View Details

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Christine Keung

Nestled between a Mexican fast food stand and a Vietnamese nail salon, my family’s restaurant in El Monte, California was where I got my first business education. I was the typical restaurant kid, helping my parents out after school by cleaning tables, sweeping floors,... View Details

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Chris Kaleel

I will go all in. My dad taught my brother, sister, and me to play blackjack when I was 10. There was never a serious wager—we used plastic chips to place bets—but I figured out how to consistently finagle my way to accumulate a hefty pile of loot. I learned some... View Details

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