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Robert Leke
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? An MBA at HBS was important in providing the opportunity for me to step back, assess my current capabilities, and develop the additional skills I lacked to become a successful manager in...
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Brooke Boyarsky
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I felt that I had a lot to learn. I knew that the cases and skills taught at HBS would give me the foundation to be an effective general manager, and the case study method at HBS would...
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Tim Nicolette
graduating from Columbia, I worked for a year with a nonprofit. I was deeply committed to the mission, but I realized the administration didn’t have the strategy, management, and organizational skills necessary to maximize impact. Also, I...
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Rawiah Abdallah
Why was getting a business education important to you? Getting a business education among people with diverse backgrounds exposes you to many different skills and opportunities. After working for four years, it has been a great time to...
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Danny Cho
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Three years ago, I made the difficult decision to leave the US Army and enter the private sector. An MBA was a natural next step because I needed the business skills and credibility, but...
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Fereshteh Zeineddin
Why was earning your MBA here important to you? I was at a point in my career when I wanted to transition into brand management. I knew that to become a great brand manager, I needed to gain a better understanding of all aspects of business. A general management MBA...
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Leo Markel
Why was earning your MBA at Harvard Business School important to you? I came to Harvard Business School to further develop my leadership ability. While confident in my analytical skills, I recognized that I did not have the leadership View Details
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Jackie Burgos
leaders who make a difference. I met a number of alums who all spoke highly of the HBS experience; their stories sold me right away.” With HBS in the back of her mind, she explored a number of career opportunities that would expand her View Details
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Suchita Prasad
taught me hard skills such as finance and marketing, but also softer skills such as owning my point of view, persuasive communication and thoughtful debate. I have also been impressed by the kind of...
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Cherian Kurien
and accomplished alumni attracts some of the most successful and driven MBA candidates. I chose the school based on the learning potential from such intelligent and committed individuals. With the case method, each student is dependent not only on his/her analytical...
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Kayode Ogunro
employer. How has HBS prepared you for your new job? My job will require a substantial amount of travel to Europe and Africa and more hands on management of deals and projects than I would face with a typical investment firm. My HBS experience has definitely helped me...
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Joseph Blair
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Earning my MBA was important to me because I wanted to gain business skills that complemented my engineering background. As an engineer, I was accustomed to analyzing technical problems...
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Pam Wildeman
take me to Europe and Asia, and across the United States. And I definitely couldn’t have foreseen that it would give me the skills to transition to a B2B, start-up, tech company. And yet here I am.
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Jamira Cotton
not deviate from it. HBS has made me more comfortable with ambiguity, and I look forward to experiencing this journey. How has HBS prepared you for your long term career goals? The case method at HBS has prepared me with skills such as my...
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Cynthia Samanian
that the case method would challenge me to think critically and communicate effectively in the classroom. These are skills I highly value as part of my HBS experience and look forward to bringing with me in my career. Additionally, my...
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Tricia Lee
company visits, or just chatting with classmates. I learned a so much about so many fields, the challenges they face and types of roles that exist, and how my unique skill set might apply. But also in the end, it re-confirmed that the...
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Daniel Sheyner
Sheyner. He also reached out to personal contacts in the industry, spending nights and weekends getting free lessons in industry skills like diligence and financial modeling, carefully building his path to private equity. "I was very...
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Omowale Casselle
increasingly skilled at asking the right question to really get to the heart of the issue. To me, this is the essence of the case-method: learning about an issue, asking the right questions, and then making a decision, based on currently...
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Laura Mackay
further explore my new passion and to identify specific companies and roles that fell within this area. I have been very fortunate to have phenomenal healthcare alumni mentors who have guided me through my journey, helping me to identify areas and opportunities that...
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John Rogers
professors and peers across the Harvard community, provided the flexibility that I needed to strengthen specific skills and focus on the aspects of business and society that interested me the most. Supporting the classroom with practice,...
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