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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

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Manufacturing

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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

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 a great View Details

Keywords: Technology; Nonprofit / Government

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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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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

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

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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

Keywords: Investment Banking; Technology; Manufacturing

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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

Keywords: Investment Banking; Consulting

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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

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

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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

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund

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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

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; Services

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Ann Chao

forward to in your career? I look forward to being a bridge between people and cultures - business and creative, the US and Asia. My dream since childhood has been to write stories that inspire people, and I love to see the spark in someone's eyes when a new View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media

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Kanwaljit Bakshi

"I've no idea how I did it. I didn't sleep much," she laughs. After graduation, Brochu went to Silicon Valley and worked for a computer security firm. But like the rest of the nation, her worldview shifted on 9/11. She decided... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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Shaun Miller

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Earning an MBA has been a career aspiration of mine since my undergraduate studies - I had always looked forward to the idea of not only expanding my technical skill set, but also learning... View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Consulting; Nonprofit / Government

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Claire Freidman

of entertainment professionals as well as to countless resources that could help me achieve my career goals. How has your overall HBS experience shaped your goals & career path? I've been one of the few people I know who came to HBS with a very clear View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Technology

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Cynthia Samanian

students interested in working at startups. This group was incredibly supportive during my internship search, and several of us developed friendships through our similar career interests. The following year, I worked on a business idea... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

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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 or on my own. How did HBS... View Details

Keywords: Services; Consumer Products

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Laura Mackay

conferences, classes, and the healthcare club, and with alumni mentors and individuals in the broader Harvard and Boston communities, I have been exposed to a plethora of ideas and career opportunities. I have thus been able to explore... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology

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Tony He

particular, through the case method, I learned how to really listen—to focus my attention on others, to think critically about what’s being said, to probe for assumptions, and to check on my own biases and reactions. I also gained practice in structuring my own View Details