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Both scientific and managerial skillsets are required to commercialize biotech discoveries and realize its benefits for many patients. I would have viewed the MS/MBA Program as a learning opportunity to become a leader who possess both skillsets. [...]
How often do you get the chance to explore a foreign country – learn its business climate, history, culture, and politics – and work on a real project that enables a business to perform better? This is exactly what you get to do in the Field Global Immersion (FGI) course at Harvard Business School. [...]
HBS was the experience around which I was going to structure the rest of my life. I was taking a job in data analytics which I was excited about but was not sure it would get me to where I wanted to go in my career. HBS was going to bring that stability to my life, and now my future seemed uncertain. [...]
As an avid beauty consumer with a desire to work in the industry, I sought a better understanding of where consumers obtain information, who they trust to provide information, and how beauty influencers deliver information. Through primary research – over 500 customer surveys and in-depth interviews with industry professionals – I examined the topic of “disruption of information channels in the beauty industry” as an Independent Project. [...]
While nothing about having kids ever goes quite as imagined, HBS did give me the gift of time with Jonathan. I could take advantage of free afternoons to nurse him at daycare and my schedule was totally predictable, allowing me to always be there to pick him up. But more than anything, HBS gave me peace of mind that I wasn’t throwing my career off track to have kids (which for too many women at many firms is still a major risk). [...]
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