Competency and Skills - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Tricia Lee

company visits, or just chatting with classmates. I learned a so much about so many fields, the challenges they face and types of roles that exist, and how my unique skill set... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Technology; Entrepreneurship

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for children with cystic fibrosis that teaches them skills to deal with their daily treatment regimens. The pace is scrappy and the conversation engaging. Since launching in 2012, HH hackathons have been... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology; Nonprofit / Government

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Jeremy Andrus

something and owning ultimate responsibility are two completely different things. What in your background has helped you the most? I’ve taken different skills from different places. I spent some time at a... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media

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Fola Folowosele

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? At Mesoamerica Energy, the wind energy company I worked at prior to business school, I held a cross functional role that straddled engineering and business development. It was through this... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products

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Scott Wu

environmental sustainability, health and wellness, natural and organic consumer products, and business services. He was also a member of the founding team of Upstart, which is... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Technology

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Avi Kremer

could convince them that ALS is a good investment, market forces will do more than all the ALS foundations worldwide can do.” In 2011 and 2012, Prize4Life awarded million-dollar prizes for tests that measure the disease’s progression... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Entrepreneurship

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Brooke Boyarsky

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I felt that I had a lot to learn. I knew that the cases and skills taught at HBS would give me the foundation to be an effective general manager, View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Technology

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Debora Lehrer

wasn't until I started my summer internship that I noticed my methods for problem-solving were vastly improved. I was able to examine an issue from various perspectives and think about a solution in a more holistic fashion. This is a... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media

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Fereshteh Zeineddin

for your current role & your long term career? My education at HBS taught me skills, models and frameworks to tackle everyday business problems; however, the most important lesson that I learned is that "soft" View Details

Keywords: Retail

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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 View Details

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Cherian Kurien

and accomplished alumni attracts some of the most successful and driven MBA candidates. I chose the school based on the learning potential from such intelligent and committed... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Retail

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Kayode Ogunro

employer. How has HBS prepared you for your new job? My job will require a substantial amount of travel to Europe and Africa and more hands on management of deals and projects... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Energy / Extractive Minerals; Manufacturing

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Pam Wildeman

take me to Europe and Asia, and across the United States. And I definitely couldn’t have foreseen that it would give me the skills to transition... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media

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Jamira Cotton

not deviate from it. HBS has made me more comfortable with ambiguity, and I look forward to experiencing this journey. How has HBS prepared you for your long term career goals? The case method at HBS has prepared me with View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Entrepreneurship

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Daniel Sheyner

Sheyner. He also reached out to personal contacts in the industry, spending nights and weekends getting free lessons in industry skills like diligence and financial modeling,... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Investment Management / Hedge Fund

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Kaki Ettinger

engineer to launch new functionalities for his nonprofit coding website, and leverage human-centered design principles to do research for a large corporation. During the final semester of my MBA, I applied analytic View Details