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Nikki Skovran
Africa. “I was impressed by the entrepreneurial energy there,” she says. “It was great to see that on the ground.” Her team worked with the Awethu Project, a startup incubator that exchanges business skills training for equity stakes in...
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Maria Brewer
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? During my time in operations, the more I was able to work with multiple areas of the business and see how they interact, the more excited I was by my work. Observing how one decision in a...
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Tricia Lee
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I've always dreamt of not only working in the entertainment industry, but changing the way people experience it through technology and new formats. After graduating from Stanford, I ended...
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Andres Sarmiento
perform as a product manager in a top organization. While at HBS I met peers that had worked in Venture Capital who cleared my understanding of those career paths. I also participated in technology industry...
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Ralph Johnson
Why did you want the MBA? After graduating from Hampton University, I went to work with Accenture—I thought I could work across different functions and industries to find my calling. But I ended up View Details
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Brooke Boyarsky
& career path? Coming into HBS I wasn't sure what I would want to do after I graduated. Reading over 500 cases gave me a broad exposure to different industries and functions. Speaking with section mates with such diverse backgrounds gave me the inside scoop on what...
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Tyler Todd
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I love my engineering background, but my long-term goals of senior management and running my own company necessitated that I learn how to make sound business decisions. While you can learn...
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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...
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Suchita Prasad
that I came to HBS was to discover how to make an impact on people and organizations. To be able to achieve my goals, I needed to complement my human capital background with thorough business knowledge. Prior to HBS, I had worked with...
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Debora Lehrer
realization hit that if I wanted to advance my career in sports at a fairly steady pace, an MBA would be the best way to prepare for the management roles I had in mind. After deciding to get an advanced degree, the choice of HBS was a...
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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
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Tiffany Niver
what is important to me, but also how I work best, what motivates me, and how I can thrive in a variety of settings. More immediately, HBS provided me a platform through which I could switch careers out of school and facilitated a smooth...
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Bryan Guerra
craved a learning experience that was more immersive and interactive, and I knew that the case method would provide this advantage. Likewise, by throwing myself into this unique setting, I knew I'd be forced to apply the full breadth of...
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Frank Spencer
weekend work crew. "I remember being out there on the first day of framing," he says. "We went from slab to entirely completed walls in eight hours." In 2012, nearly 25 years after pounding nails and hanging drywall in...
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Jeremy Andrus
chain, and selling. I worked for a while as a hotel developer for a Marriott franchisee. Before HBS, I was a management consultant at Monitor, which sharpened my perspective on business and industry...
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Claire Freidman
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Prior to business school, I spent five years working in finance. My clients were entertainment companies and I knew I wanted to switch careers and work on...
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Jackie Burgos
and held meetings not once, but twice a week. Preparing for career options In her junior year of college, Jackie visited the Harvard Business School (HBS) campus through the Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) program, and was...
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Yi-An Huang
internal consulting group. How is your current job related to your HBS experience? When I came to HBS, I had been working in global health and development issues. I had realized that healthcare is an exciting sector with powerful social...
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Beau D'Arcy
that I'll find out and get back to those people. Then I'll work tirelessly until I have that question fully answered." How have you used what you learned at HBS in this work? "If there was one thing HBS taught me that has been...
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Jan Petzel
climb, I gave away most of my gear to the porters," says Petzel, who has climbed all of the "Seven Summits"—the tallest mountain on each of Earth's seven continents. He now occupies himself at a more manageable altitude in...
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