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Tina Chen

Six black suitcases. Carefully packed, re-packed, weighed, and re-weighed. Wrapped tightly with bright luggage belts. They contained everything we had to start life on the other side of the world. We were so excited and hopeful. Yet realities of the immigrant life,... View Details

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Sue Yang

Before my first visit back to Shanghai, before we moved to Detroit, before I discovered New York City, before I ever dreamed of Paris or heard of Dubai, I fell in love with Toledo, Ohio. At five, that was my first and only conception of a city. I was forever seized. My... View Details

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Sacha Yabili

It was a jittery night of 1997, and shots ripped the sky as rebels walked toward my home town of Lubumbashi. Cowering on the ground with my siblings to shield against stray bullets, I wondered if I was passively living the epilogue of my life; if these blazing shots... View Details

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Sarah Bucknell Treco

What was the secret to success as a woman on Wall Street in the 1970s? One promising managing director-track VP left the office on Thursday night to give birth and returned to work on Monday morning. Junior women did not talk about work/life balance then. Perhaps no... View Details

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Stacy Sonnenberg

I want to be brave enough to follow my heart in all things. I want to be brave enough to follow my dream of being elected Mayor of New York City. I know that my chances are improbable at best, but I will never forgive myself if I do not try. Even if I am not elected... View Details

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Svyatoslav Samko

Start. Jump. Fly. Smile. Fall. Cry. Learn. Take. Try. Taste. Throw away. Forget. Try another. Earn. Spend. Buy. Waste. Earn. Re-focus. Give. Change. Smile. Love. Laugh. Cry. Give. Take. Forgive. Give. Give. Launch. Fail. Launch. Fail. Launch. Grow. Build. Achieve.... View Details

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Stephanie Parker

I stood behind a wall of bananas, a fortress of fruit erected for the thousands of people participating in my volunteer event. As I stood there, banana in hand, I briefly pondered my situation. What am I doing here? Shouldn't leaders emerge from the shadows and present... View Details

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Shaun Miller

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Sanjayan Manivannan

I want to make magic happen. The same magic that I felt when I saw an airplane take off in the distance as I nervously waited for mine to do the same. Winter's first snow in Boston and the searing chill I felt on my bare feet. The beginning of a steamy love affair with... View Details

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Shaila Ittycheria

In college, Shaila Ittycheria found an attraction to business and finance. To understand the practical application of finance in a variety of settings, she entered Microsoft's Finance Rotation Program. There, she worked in four areas for six months each over a period... View Details

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Sundus Husain

"Courage," I thought, "it's a toy pistol." I had never seen a gun before. But now I was standing with one pointed at my head. My mother had spied car thieves from our balcony and had raced down, barefoot and alone. So I followed her, age 15; battle... View Details

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Shaan Gandhi

Every physician and medical student remembers the first patient who died on his or her watch. I remember mine. Her name was Sarah, and she came to us in respiratory distress. After running some tests, we concluded that she likely had a pulmonary embolism, a potentially... View Details

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Sarah Assayag

I would become the first colony settler on Earth 2.0, develop drugs that would allow humans to become immortal, and create an android that would fall asleep by counting electric sheep. My 8-year-old self, inspired by science fiction, dreamed of becoming an astronaut,... View Details

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Rachel Reddy

Tears rolling softly down my face. My six young cousins carrying the coffin. A deep quiet and stillness despite a church packed to bursting point. Yet, there’s a profound sense of peace and happiness inside me. I had known this wonderful woman. A grandmother that... View Details

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Ryan Flamerich

I know the flight between Washington and Boston well. I can recall the favorite seats of politicians. The sounds of jammed doors, aborted landings, and “engine trouble” echo through my mind. This flight is special because my partner and I were separated by 250... View Details

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Roland de Demandolx

Build. No specific ideas yet on the final design of this effort. Just a wish of being able to look back in a few decades and feel some comfort that I did not betray myself. Piece by piece, like assembling a puzzle. Churchill once said: "Only one link in the chain... View Details

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Roniesha Copeland

It’s not hard to see where Roniesha Copeland’s interest in business has come from. Her father owned a plumbing company. Her late mother was a district manager for a large Burger King franchise group based in the Detroit area. When that group was sold, both parents... View Details

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Rob Casper

Perhaps Rob Casper's previous experience as a Marine captain has given him sufficient adrenaline for a lifetime. Today, two years after completing his MBA at HBS, Rob has turned his career interests as far from the "adventurous" as one can get. "I like... View Details

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Robert Duke Biederman

I just want to be a good dad. And I want to build something. When I was learning how to pitch, my dad went and got full equipment and learned to play catcher at age 49. He left work early and spent cold March afternoons earning bumps and bruises, diving from wild... View Details

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Rye Barcott

If there is a theme to Rye Barcott's career to date, it has been his willingness to confront painful situations many of us would prefer to ignore. "I've always been interested in understanding ethnic violence and intervention," Rye says. With the blessings of... View Details

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