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Kwame Owusu-Kesse

experience is that I have been encouraged to focus on personal growth. In understanding who you are, what your values are, and what you are passionate about, it becomes easier to identify a career path that you want to pursue. For me,... View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Nonprofit / Government

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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... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Nonprofit / Government

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John Rogers

unique and impactful field opportunities through the Immersion Experience Program and Social Enterprise Initiative Summer Fellowship. This balanced educational experience, along with the privilege of joining a respected and global alumni network, made attending HBS the... View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Manufacturing

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Arjun Goyal

Coming from a family of doctors, Arjun Goyal anticipated a life in clinical medicine in his home country of Australia. But when his education directed him to a year of research at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, where he participated in malaria vaccine... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care

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Evelyne White

markets. The question for us is about next steps: Do we go deep in small and medium-sized markets where we know our product works well? Or go wide and try to cover more territory quickly, including the... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Services

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Juan Camargo

When the 2014 Cadillac ELR—the carmaker's new electric luxury vehicle—rolled onstage at the Detroit auto show earlier this year, Juan Camargo (MBA 2012) sat in the fourth row, beaming. And it wasn't just because, as assistant marketing... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology; Consumer Products

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Henry McCance

entrepreneurial spirit,” McCance said. The CAF partners asked Tanzi to recruit a dozen other researchers they had identified as standouts in the field and to urge them to apply for grants. And they made it clear that they were looking... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Health Care

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Suchita Prasad

what it would take for me to achieve my end goals. On a more personal level, the HBS MBA has provided more meaningful insight into myself as I have mapped my strengths and weaknesses. I have learned to raise difficult issues and... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Manufacturing

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Debora Lehrer

in which I think I will thrive. What are you most looking forward to in your career? I am looking forward to having a successful career in the sports industry which for me, entails being a game-changer. Whether I am using innovative View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media

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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... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

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Gerald Chertavian

his new wife, Kate, where he ran marketing for a financial services firm before cofounding Conduit Communications, a consulting firm focused on the nascent field of Internet marketing. He spent several years... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Entrepreneurship; Services

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Eryn Schultz

big impact. Watching some of my classmates develop an idea, recruit a team, and raise funding for a business idea made me realize that I have the tools to build something: either inside an existent company... View Details

Keywords: Services; Consumer Products

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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

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Other Financial Services; Real Estate; Services

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Sheila Marcelo

at an Internet technology company and using the yellow pages to try to figure out how to find care for my family.” That contradiction was not lost on the budding entrepreneur. Marcelo’s family emergency shed light on a View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; Services

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Lisa Cousins

to do, prepare me for this type of role, and open doors to new opportunities. Attending HBS was also especially important to me because of a memorable experience I had during my first week as a consultant. Two Class of 2006 alumna had... View Details

Keywords: Services; Entertainment / Media

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Pam Wildeman

alumni had made to reach their goals. Years later, the lessons learned from those stories have made me more confident in creating my own career path: taking time off for my family, working part-time in different capacities, considering... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media

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Jillian Dorans

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? The short answer: I fell in love with hospitality. I'm what you would call a career-switcher. Three years into my management consulting career, I worked on a project for a large hotel... View Details

Keywords: Services; Consulting

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Andres Sarmiento

learn to listen to opinions different than ours, to be comfortable with disagreement, and to convey ideas in a persuasive manner. How has your overall Harvard Business School experience shaped your goals & career path? I came to HBS... View Details