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11 Aug 2014
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The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)

this theory is core to entrepreneurship and to understanding the consumer, whether she is a patient or a shopper at the mall. The 'job to be done' was front of mind when we discovered Aromaflage. I kept thinking to myself what a clear job... View Details

17 Jan 2019
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

In this special First Five Years post, four alumni recently named to the Forbes 2019 “30 Under 30” list—Akash Pradhan (MBA 2017), Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015), Anthony Tucker (MBA 2017), and Anish Pathipati (MBA 2016)—talk careers, HBS, and... View Details

17 Mar 2015
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The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)

What’s the story behind the Flatiron School, and how did you come up with the name? “The Flatiron School was born when I met my cofounder, Avi Flombaum, while researching innovations in higher education at Charles River Ventures. I had always been interested in... View Details

Keywords: Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

12 Jun 2014
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The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)

marketing job at Amazon, looking to reconnect with my creative side and do something entrepreneurial. Enter my cofounders, Shahil Patel and Mayuri Bhandari. In Boston, Shahil, a first-year MBA at MIT, was fresh off of the semifinals of... View Details

Keywords: fitness; Arts, Entertainment

02 Nov 2020
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The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

a timber farm. Many of my family members also worked in industries tied to food and agriculture. This background led me to study food and resource economics as an undergraduate, a field of study with a very high likelihood of landing somewhere in the agricultural... View Details

11 Apr 2018
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The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)

of The Mission Continues? “I knew about The Mission Continues through my membership in the veterans group at the Kennedy School. A year after graduating from HBS, I was living in San Antonio and looking for a geographic change. I wanted to find a View Details

14 Apr 2021
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The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)

due to my relationship with Austin. The hardest part is feeling like I am being impactful enough given I work long hours in my current job [director of marketing analytics at Inspire Brands] and am not able to commit as much time as I... View Details

13 Dec 2022
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The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith

Christine Keung (at podium) and Reginald Smith (both MBA 2020) present recommendations for economic development to the West Virginia State Senate in May 2022. How did you meet? Reggie Smith: "We first met before classes started RC year at... View Details

18 May 2015
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The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)

with the MBA, I’ll be better equipped to identify promising new ideas in the field and help bring them to fruition in clinical practice.” What has your experience as a first-year resident been like? “For the first few weeks of residency,... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

13 Mar 2019
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The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)

because we wanted it to be perfect. The reality is a startup isn’t about perfection on the first try. When we launched our first product we were hawks––watching and waiting for any feedback we could get.... View Details

08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

year we set up a recording tent on Spangler lawn and asked alumni returning for reunions a simple question. What was your first job and what did it teach you? The first... View Details