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Tony Deifell

I used to teach photography to blind and visually impaired students. One student made photographs of the cracked sidewalks at her school and sent them to the superintendent as "proof" of the damage. She included a letter asking for them to be fixed.... View Details

Alumni Changing the World

Tawan Davis

Tawan Davis, MBA 2006, Founder and CEO of The Steinbridge Group, along with COO Sacasha Brown, MBA 2006, is creating a positive ripple effect for working class families. Based in Philadelphia and New York, Steinbridge has built a network of investors, contractors, and... View Details

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Makyha-Tiana Bowles

The edge is where fear ends and faith begins. With these words replaying in my mind as a rhythmic chant, I went skydiving. At the same time in my life, I found myself at an impasse, debating whether to leave the only job I had ever known. I contemplated this dilemma... View Details

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Sunru Yong

My first car was a cornflower blue 1981 Chevrolet Citation. Free life lesson here, kids: don't ever market a car using a name synonymous with "moving violation." The late, great Citation – she of AM radio, vinyl seats, and a mysterious coolant leak – came... View Details

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Stephen Temple

Stephen Temple has always enjoyed a good challenge – both personally and professionally. An Ironman triathlete, Brand Manager, and aspiring entrepreneur, his journey has led him to take on a new series of challenges alongside his classmates at HBS. An entrepreneurial... View Details

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Sarah Sommer

"Your daughter is deaf and she may never read beyond a fourth grade reading level," the doctor told my parents when I was two. 30 years later when I greet each day by putting on my "ears" -- my cochlear implants -- I awake to a world of beautiful... View Details

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Sid Shenai

For most of his life, Sid Shenai had pursued a single goal: to be a mathematical physicist. At Harvard, Sid finished his required courses early and participated in graduate level research. But his path toward a Ph.D was interrupted by a sudden epiphany: "I woke up... View Details

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Sisto Merolla

What if I... kiss my mom and dad goodnight every time I visit them? whisper "I love you, Pici" to Giuliana every time I think it? smile while changing my future children's diapers, thinking "are these the joys of parenthood"? laugh at myself when,... View Details

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Sahar Meghani

I want to live for two. My sister, Suhaila, passed away three months before I came to HBS. She was more than my sister. She was my loudest cheerleader, my algebra teacher, my personal stylist, my most honest critic, my best friend. She was by my side for twenty-six... View Details

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Sharon Liszanckie

Twist what HBS taught about aspirational marketing, NOT to sell luxury goods, but to illustrate "goods" aren't important, what you do for others is. Demonstrate that increasing shareholder return is not wholly synonymous with increasing value. Challenge... View Details

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Sarah Kalmbach

Forks scraping plates. Wine splashed into glasses. Clinking dishes. Fits of laughter. Sometimes tears. Always growth. As a child, I would look up from my booster seat at a neighbor or my dad’s coworker sitting across the table. I didn’t know that not every house was... View Details

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Smriti Jayaraman

Thirty years ago, my dad spent long nights watching Star Trek marathons, mesmerized by the teleportation and video-messaging magic the 1960s sci-fi series was known for. Perhaps it was this relentless fascination with technology that led him to betray the physics lab... View Details

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Samantha Gray

I want to stretch my heart to the breaking as a wife, a lover, a mother. I want to be there for my little sister and baby brother when life isn't fair. I want amazing friends who order Indian food that I'll eat, who know my car's name is Veronica, and who recognize my... View Details

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Sadiq Gillani

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better. And your better best." With these words my mother inspired me throughout my childhood I am going to apply that energy to help transform the airline industry and, if successful, be a role model... View Details

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Scott Daubin

Scott Daubin came to Princeton University to study chemistry, but he was quickly lured by the call of business. In his first summer at the college, Scott accepted a sales position with a student-run paper, Business Today, that had been founded by Steve Forbes and other... View Details

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Simon Belsham

Did the tree really notice me? Last summer I stood high-up in the shady branches of a giant African Baobab in Botswana, feeling so small in the presence of something so grand and old. 150 years ago English missionaries would leave messages for each other in this exact... View Details

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Steve Alden

Steve Alden has unimpeachable credentials in quantitative analytics, placing first in Massachusetts on the CPA exam in 2007, and in the top-ten nationwide. But when it came time to assess potential MBA programs, Steve gave qualitative factors a higher priority. "I... View Details

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Raghu Yarlagadda

Most electronic devices come with cautionary labels warning users against the dangers of opening the box. Fortunately, as a youth growing up in India, fascinated by televisions, Raghu Yarlagadda ignored the warnings and looked inside. He built his education, then his... View Details

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Randolph Rodrigues

I tread along in the footsteps of those who have accomplished so much with so little... My father was a shepherd for the first decade of his life until a teacher offered to enroll him in school. My mother grew up with her grandmother who just managed to get by on odd... View Details

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Rohit Pursram

"To find fulfillment, don't exist with life. Embrace it." – Jim Beggs I hope to achieve balance between the depth and breadth of my life experiences, to pursue my passions of music, media, art, and economic development with commitment and determination, yet... View Details

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