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Kathleen Schlaff

You never ever know what is around the corner. No matter how well planned I thought my life was, it really threw me a few curve balls this year. When my aunt called me last summer to tell me that my father, who I adore, had unexpectedly fallen into a coma, I'd never... View Details

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Kwame Owusu-Kesse

By his own description, Kwame grew up within challenging circumstances: "a single-parent household, the child of immigrants from Ghana trying to find their way in America." But he also found drive and purpose at an early age. In high school, he sold T-shirts... View Details

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Katy Lankester

I spent most of my childhood in a place that cared a lot about appearances. The 'pretty' girls were thin and went to extraordinary lengths to stay that way. I didn't want to go on 'celery diets' – I wanted to be an athlete; I wanted to be strong. So I was a contrarian.... View Details

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Kasia Biezychudek

My parents would not allow the weight of the iron curtain to hide my stage. Suitcase in hand, they uprooted their lives in Poland and started over to give my brother Piotr and me opportunities they never had. With each experience I appreciate more the choices and... View Details

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Joshua Wyatt

One day, I will welcome people as they check-in to my hotels. OK, my hotel empire is but a single apartment now, but one day I will be able to take care of people; people who come from all over the world with many different views, hopes, dreams and desires. It is this... View Details

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Jamie Wilkie

When I was 10, my dad and I bought a run-down 1965 Volkswagen Beetle with the hopes of restoring the forgotten antique. Every Saturday, we’d work for hours on the engine and body while we listened to Van Morrison and my dad smoked cigars. We tore through moldy seating,... View Details

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Jialei Tian

Live in fear of failure – unable to wholeheartedly realize my potentials and relentlessly pursue my dream. My first experience of failure took place when I was in the third grade. Two weeks after winning a spot in a school show, I was asked, in front of the entire... View Details

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Joe Stenger

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? The U.S. Air Force requires pilots to stay on active duty for 10 years after training, so I ended up serving for 13 years. I’m already the oldest student in the MBA program and, honestly, it was now or never. I had... View Details

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Jon Schechter

As an engineer at Amazon Robotics (formerly Kiva Systems), Jon Schechter viewed the future, almost literally, from the ground floor. “We worked on fleets of orange robots that move warehouse inventory,” he explains. “They drive underneath the shelves to find and lift... View Details

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Jason Sanders

At Oxford University, Jason took advantage of his Rhodes Scholarship to supplement his previous education in bioscience with an entirely new discipline: English literature. As a subject area for someone intending to become a physician, the choice might have seemed odd,... View Details

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John Rogers

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Jessica Reid

I'd like to hold many titles throughout my life, MBA, CEO, daughter, sister, aunt, wife, and mother -- but if I had to pick only one, I would choose "Teacher of the Year." Every year in elementary school, we would vote for the teacher of the year. It wouldn't... View Details

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Jaynie Randall

Throw out the three- and five- and ten-year plans. All of them. Wild and precious life happens in the moments that build on each other and take us on a different route than the one we had planned, sometimes better than the plan, sometimes worse. My father lived his... View Details

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Janice Lin

I have an insatiable need for speed. There's never enough time to do everything I'd like, but I aspire to be inhuman and accomplish the maximum within the short time I know is left. I may be entering the finance world again, but I will break free of the achievement... View Details

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Josh Latson

Some children are afraid of the dark, or spiders, or broccoli. I was always afraid of not being remembered – that one day I'd be gone from this earth before anybody could notice. Even when I thought of how I would like to be remembered, I could not seem to fill in the... View Details

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Jake Johnston

Jake Johnston learned about leadership the hard way, through two tours of duty in Iraq, first as an Air Cavalry Platoon Leader, then as an Air Cavalry Troop Commander. "I guess that's why executive responsibility tends to be a black-and-white issue for me,"... View Details

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Jamie Holden

During my first year at West Point, one of the many things required of a Plebe was to memorize "The Days." Upperclassmen quizzed us daily on how many days until the seniors received their class ring, how many days until Army beats Navy in the classic... View Details

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Jean Hayden

When we came to Harvard Business School we had to squash our lives onto a one-page resume. I hated it – I had to leave off all the weird things about my life that I actually thought were the most interesting. I may have worked as an English boarding house matron and... View Details

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Jacqueline Adams

For years, I've joked (sort of) that "I live to serve!" It's a riff on a black woman's most frequent role since our ancestors were brought to this continent against their wills. But it's also been true. As a local television anchor (while I attended HBS) and... View Details

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Inessa Lurye

Before graduate school, Inessa Lurye, through consulting work at McKinsey, helped the Harlem Children's Zone nearly double the number of children it served. She worked with the Washington DC's mayor's office to reduce street homelessness by fifteen percent. While at... View Details

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