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Arvind Chandrababu
best approaches for pursuing my career. Initially, I thought building schools would be a nonprofit enterprise. But studying things like the rise of microfinance really changed my mind. When people develop commercial models, they can make a great View Details
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John Rogers
me. How has your overall HBS experience shaped your goals & career path? I came to HBS with an idea and am leaving with a dream. The magic of this place lies in the unplanned learning, in the conversations and interactions with peers... View Details
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Kwame Owusu-Kesse
ideas into practice. I am excited by this challenge, as it will force me to analyze multifaceted problems, determine the right questions to address, and develop advantageous solutions. Education reform and poverty alleviation are complex... View Details
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Beau D'Arcy
How was the idea for Breakwater Chicago born? "I came up with the idea for Breakwater Chicago after my business school internship at The Venetian in Las Vegas. I observed that Chicago had not yet picked... View Details
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Debora Lehrer
also in every-day life. Additionally, as someone who prior to school was somewhat reticent to speak up in meetings, I noted a drastic change in my demeanor over this past summer. Not only was I eager to share my ideas with my colleagues... View Details
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Juan Camargo
reinforce the innovative ideas at work under the hood. "For the mainstream, that becomes a little bit trickier. You have to blend what people look for in a car design and still, underneath, offer the benefits of new technology." View Details
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Tiffany Niver
path? HBS provided an educational experience in career possibilities, paths, and options. Through the classroom experience, exposure to executives and protagonists, as well as the wide variety of career resources, I am walking out of the MBA experience feeling like I... View Details
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Dan Vallone
be prepared to defend it while remaining open to learning from other perspectives. There’s also a very big thing here, what I call an interaction with the entrepreneurial spirit. There are so many ideas here, so much willingness to take... View Details
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Arjun Goyal
at the Harvard Innovation Lab (Harvard i-lab). When asked if the environment of mutual encouragement and advice is helpful, Arjun does not hesitate. “One hundred percent,” he says. “For guidance, help with pitches, sharing ideas — it’s... View Details
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Scott Wu
and make the government’s international outreach efforts—from agriculture and education to health care—more effective and scalable. Wu describes the work at USAID as “essentially a two-and-a-half year-old venture capital fund housed in the agency to invest in... View Details
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Kayode Ogunro
a difference that has an enduring impact on the development fortunes of underserved emerging markets. What did you learn during the job search process? My job search process was atypical, as I had a very specific idea of what I wanted and... View Details
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Lauren Burrows
institution. How did your overall HBS experience shape your goals & career path? My two years at HBS gave me the time and space to reflect on and clarify what really mattered to me, both personally and professionally. Throughout the experience, I felt that I was... View Details
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Suchita Prasad
points of view. The first year gave me a chance to take on a perspective from different functions in various industries and gave me a holistic sense of the business. I was unknown to even the idea of entrepreneurship, but my first year... View Details
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Bruce Gago
me to pursue this new business immediately after HBS. Finally, HBS quite simply gave me the confidence to embrace risk. Many students--including me--attended HBS in order to reduce future career risk. Throughout my two years at HBS, I learned that if you have a... View Details
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Kim Chen
many different ways to address this; disruptive ideas and business models emerge with greater frequency. I look forward to contributing to this exciting shift. How has HBS prepared you for your current role and your long term career? The... View Details
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Nathan Lasche
technology and will hopefully be great sounding boards for my ideas in the future. How has HBS prepared you for your current role and your long term career? HBS provided a great toolkit of skills which help solve challenges I encounter in... View Details
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Jessey Jin
prepared you for your current role & your long term career? The idea of helping students prepare for a long term career can be found in case discussion, club events, alumni activities and so on. The school put together lots of... View Details
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Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo
prepared you for your current role & your long term career? I'll be proposing solutions within complex, uncertain environments. That's what we do at HBS every day: analyze problems and arrive at ideas for improvement. Here, we have... View Details
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Raja Bobbili
this dominant idea that business leaders make important decisions with imperfect information. As an investor, that is exactly what I have to do – exercise sound judgment in the context of significant uncertainty and complexity. How did... View Details
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Henry McCance
principles: locate visionaries and invest in them; run a lean, frugal institution; and take the risk on bold ideas with enormous promise. Having discovered their first visionary in Tanzi, they set out to find someone who could double as a... View Details