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Tony He

discussions. During my internship, these communication skills helped me in working with the team to develop and evaluate interesting proposals. Looking forward, I feel better prepared to analyze new... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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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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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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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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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

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Technology; Entrepreneurship

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Shaun Miller

& long term career? HBS has done a magnificent job at equipping me with the technical skills necessary to succeed - Discounted Cash Flow's, Five Forces, and leadership models are all nearly instinctual... View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Consulting; Nonprofit / Government

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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... View Details

Keywords: Technology

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Katy Lankester

where in healthcare I wanted to build my career, and in what types of companies. I wanted to work in healthcare, but I didn’t know what the big verticals were, or which types of competencies were most... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

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Gerald Chertavian

years after they first met, the two remain close friends and have much in common: Heredia has a successful career (as an animator), is happily married, is a proud father of three, and recently signed up to... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Entrepreneurship; Services

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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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