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Scott Wu
places that aren’t on most people’s vacation lists. “My wife often jokes that every vacation we’ve taken since we first met involves visiting an orphanage or refugee camp,” says Wu, who is driven by a desire to help others just as he and his family were helped when... View Details
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Tony He
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Prior to business school, I studied biomedical engineering and worked in health economics research. I learned useful technical skills, but I looked to expand my thinking. View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
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Claire Freidman
school, and have stuck with that plan while on campus. After graduation, I'm moving out to Los Angeles to work in strategy and business development for Warner Bros. Entertainment. If you had asked me on my... View Details
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Cathy Zhou
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I went to HBS because I wanted to be at a place that would push me to think big -- about what drives me professionally and personally, about the type of business leader I wanted to be, and... View Details
Keywords: Technology
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Naiyya Saggi
since I felt an immediate kinship with this interpretation. Moreover, as a lawyer turned management consultant, I was looking to build a strong foundation to my business skills. An HBS education was important since it promised a quality... View Details
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Jake Flomenberg
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I came to business school to find more personal meaning in my career and to build a set of skills that I can leverage to create a larger impact on the things that are important to me. I... View Details
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Casey Gerald
through three hundred business situations with imperfect information and severe time constraints. You have to develop a framework for a vision, a way to articulate that vision, and the humility to accept ninety different opinions... View Details
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Brett Laffel
Why was getting a business education important to you? Obtaining a business education was important to me because my past work experience involved learning a very narrow and specific skill set and I wanted... View Details
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Tiffany Niver
as I progress through my career. Exposure to the wide variety of business problems, viewpoints, companies, issues, industries, protagonists, and classmates through the case method at HBS was also an important part of my experience. How... View Details
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Patrick Connolly
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? In my life before business school, I was a concert pianist and music theorist-disciplines that require truly deep, vertical expertise. My decision to attend HBS was consciously designed to... View Details
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Tyler Todd
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I love my engineering background, but my long-term goals of senior management and running my own company necessitated that I learn how to make sound business decisions. While you can learn... View Details
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Ben Faw
accrued vacation time to fulfill an internship with UBS in New York. “I had always wanted to experience what it’s like to work on Wall Street,” Ben says, “and I wanted to build up some strength in quantitative skills.” Driving on an open road Anticipating his... View Details
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Dan Vallone
not having to plan things so far ahead. I’ve learned from my colleagues here that you can have an impact in a much shorter time period. I have more faith in my ability to shape my destiny as I go. Have you made adjustments to your ambitions since beginning the MBA... View Details
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Debora Lehrer
leave. Four plus years later I had been admitted to HBS and was on my way to earning an MBA. After just a few short years at MLB, it became clear to me that I was missing the foundation of a business education - my history major had not... View Details
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Tim Nicolette
Inspire, a consortium of strategy consulting firms who organized a team of pre-MBA consultants who volunteered five to ten hours a week to educational nonprofits. After a year, Inspire asked me to serve as its executive director. In that... View Details
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Yi-An Huang
Where are you now and what are you doing? I’m a director of strategy at Boston Medical Center. We have a small team, directly under the COO, that explores strategies in every area from operational projects... View Details
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Cynthia Samanian
the near future, I look forward to helping define and execute the business strategy for Path, as well as developing my personal leadership style. This will be a great opportunity to put in practice many of... View Details
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Minal Mehta
small milestone motivates us to run at this venture even harder." What advice do you have for current HBS students who hope to launch their own companies? "Make the time to connect with your HBS classmates and use them as a sounding board for your View Details
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Phil Strazzulla
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? When I was working in venture capital, I ran into so many CEOs that had gone to HBS. When I was accepted into the program, every single one said, "I'm jealous, you're about to have two of the best years of your... View Details
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Bryan Guerra
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Prior to business school at HBS, the majority of my educational experience had taken place largely within a lecture-based setting. While this approach had provided a solid foundation of... View Details