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Henry McCance
recent advances in gene sequencing and data mining, he believed he could identify many more genes in a short time with a relatively modest investment. That could lead to the major breakthrough the founders were after, because more genes with which to View Details
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Patrick Connolly
community devoted to truly interdisciplinary and cross-functional learning. My choice was also largely a function of the distinctive learning model and the school's commitment to a rigorous general-management education-one that requires...
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Fola Folowosele
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? At Mesoamerica Energy, the wind energy company I worked at prior to business school, I held a cross functional role that straddled engineering and business development. It was through this...
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Evelyne White
the model is more local than expected and that it's working in small and medium markets. Getting to a strong brand awareness and consideration level will be cheaper and easier in these markets, which will be...
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Daniel Sheyner
he first tried to transition to private equity from consulting, looking for more ownership over his work. Because the consulting company he worked for wasn't targeted by private equity, he had to go out and sell himself. "Traditional...
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Philipp Schäelli
strongly shaped by my path towards discovering what I wanted to do professionally. I came to HBS after my experience in Consulting knowing that I wanted to work more closely with people who were running businesses and that I wanted to...
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Luc Sirois
The health care industry needs so much improvement, it will take a whole movement to fix it. “The more leaders, the better,” says Luc Sirois (MBA 1997), who sees progress coming not through a single organization, but rather from groups of passionate medical and IT...
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Kim Chen
are constantly being written to reflect new complexities of working in a global business context. Studying these make me more excited than ever to take on this evolving environment firsthand. I look forward to the constant challenge of...
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Nikki Skovran
models for Awethu, including an Internet café and graphic design services, three of which were ultimately launched by the enterprise. This summer, Nikki’s “deep rooted sense of adventure” will take her to Sydney, Australia where she will...
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Shaun Miller
exciting it could be to live and work abroad - and thus I was able to chart a path that would take me there. Back on campus, the global perspective and reach of HBS provided me with the resources to achieve this goal. What are you most...
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Debora Lehrer
sponsorship deals, I want to make a positive, lasting impact on the properties and brands I work with. More importantly, I am excited about one day taking the skills, knowledge and contacts I have acquired from HBS and my later career and...
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Naiyya Saggi
were top of mind for them. Classes such as Business at the Base Of the Pyramid and Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital in Healthcare led me to question basic assumptions about how societal change could be created. Outside HBS, working...
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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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Jonathan Evans
greater fluency in the integrative work critical to creating cutting-edge products with sound strategy and management. And it has also underscored a deep humility for the potency of teamwork to drive impact. What are you most looking...
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Jeremy Andrus
like? We went public in July 2011, a few months after I was put in the CEO role, so there wasn’t a lot of breathing time. I had worked closely on day-to-day operations with the firm’s founder since 2005, so I was up to speed on most...
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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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Alexandra Stanek
express myself maturely. Were you always interested in development? Actually, I was always interested in Sub-Saharan Africa precisely because it’s so different from where I come from. The development part came later. As an undergraduate, I studied applied math and...
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Kanwaljit Bakshi
work. "The models of law enforcement and international public policy are not strategic by nature," she explains. "There are no other Harvard MBAs working there. Just having that perspective...
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