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Jennifer DeWhitt

Before entering Harvard Business School in 2012, Jennifer DeWhitt, MBA 2013, had been very seriously working at Bain—and just as tenderly working on a children's book with her grandmother. "While I was getting my degree, I didn't know if I wanted to be a... View Details

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Jeremy Burnham

In the past year, Jeremy Burnham, a chemical engineer with a background in oil and energy, has experienced a dizzying succession of transitions. “Last June, my wife Perisha and I moved to Cambridge,” Jeremy explains. “In July, she gave birth to our daughter, Maya. Then... View Details

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Joel Bryce

Africa's sufferings and celebrations are a thief that has stolen my heart. Why, you ask? A simple, innocuous question. I'm asked it all the time. Why are you spending spring break working with Kenyan enterprises in Nairobi? Why did you spend your internship consulting... View Details

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Jeanine Barnett

You don't walk away unscathed from an accident where the Greyhound bus you are on crashes into an 18-wheeler — killing and injuring all but a handful — and not wonder why you were spared. I stood there with the other survivors — sore, stunned, almost ashamed of the... View Details

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Inessa Lurye

When Inessa Lurye arrived at Swarthmore, she resolutely “did not want to have anything to do with the environment” she had recently left the inner-city Baltimore-area neighborhood she and her parents emigrated to after fleeing Belarus in 1992. But the combined call of... View Details

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Inigo Amoribieta

I plan to travel far. Our world today is one of superstar athletes, teenage popstars, business executives, news reporters, and central bankers. One where we value people by the end points they reach in life, but not by the roads they have traveled to reach them. Is... View Details

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Harman Kochar

If life could be planned I would have already – Eradicated Poverty from the World Controlled Global Warming Established World Peace Cured all Diseases Discovered the fountain of youth and last but not the least.... Built my mansion on moon.... ....but what I have... View Details

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Hope Carlson

I learned to sing at the same time I learned to talk. My dad would rock me to sleep every night and have me fill in the words to his lullabies. That's when my love for music was first sparked. To sing well, you have to let go. To accept yourself as you are in the... View Details

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Frank Wei

"Men wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success." Sir Ernest Shackleton placed this advertisement in a London newspaper to recruit... View Details

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Fred Smith

Fred Smith comes from an impressive of line of entrepreneurs. His grandfather founded what would become the largest tour company in Jamaica. Fred's father created his own tour company, then extended the family's interests into real estate, rental cars, and service... View Details

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Frances Dixon

As an undergraduate attending Tufts, Frances Dixon was deeply impressed by the idea of service to others. While searching out how to accomplish this life goal, she was inspired by the military officers she met. “They were clearly leaders,” she says. “They walked into a... View Details

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Emily Wang

I will take a deep breath and step onto my stage. There are no awkward throwback photos of me in tutus or dance recitals. Ballet classes were a luxury for which we did not have time or money. But I was a happy and resolute child, and in my own world of books and... View Details

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Eryn Schultz

What’s the one thing you’re most excited about learning at HBS? I’m really experiencing the strength of the HBS network. In college, I wrote a business plan for a healthy school-lunch program and have been interested in food-access issues for a long time. Through the... View Details

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Estevan Santiago

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? After deciding against applying to medical school, I felt a bit lost as I thought about my future career options. However, after working at a start-up (Collective Health) in San Francisco, I realized that I had a huge... View Details

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Emily Love

As a little girl, I wanted to... stand on my toes and twirl in the lights I still do. be a southern lady like my Alabama grandmothers, who greeted strangers and the garden club with equal graciousness I still do. be an astronaut so I could trace the constellations like... View Details

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Emily Kramer

In the words of the band Twisted Sister, "I wanna rock." But, despite my best efforts, I cannot sing a note, play guitar, or even clap to a beat. However, I don't let my inabilities stop me. I am obsessed with music. Being a music fan defines me. I won a... View Details

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Emily Anadu

When I was eleven, my mother, two sisters and I left my father and a very comfortable life in Nigeria to live with my grandmother in Texas. My sisters and I joke that the silver spoons that were placed in our mouths at birth were replaced with plastic ones. I learned a... View Details

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Eric Adamson

Homo Sapiens, the Anthropocene, Humanity: there is darkness within us. In my comfortable Californian childhood, I learned about distant injustices and atrocities. It felt unfair that I would grow up so softly in such a harsh world. So, after university, I dove in: I... View Details

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Daniella Yacobovsky

Visiting has become harder as his memory slips away. First short-term memory faded, and then long-term memory followed, and finally my name has joined that list of items just beyond his cerebral grasp. His warm smile recognizes my face, but he cannot seem to locate... View Details

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Douglas Schillinger

In my mind's eye, I was Ernest Shackelton. I was Jim Lovell. I was the 'Last of the Mohicans'. I was bending down to receive my Olympic Medal. I knew what I wanted for my life: the epic, the extraordinary, and the exceptional. I wanted to be the first of something, the... View Details

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