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Zeya Yang from Plaid Discusses His Independent Project at HBS
- 21 Aug 2019
Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job
In essence, I was able to understand Plaid's business at a more intimate level than I would have been able to through an ordinary interview preparation process. Exploring the academic side of the job search also opened me up to experiences I would have never imagined. [...]
I worked to ensure that I was productive and meeting deadlines, and I appreciated the support I received from my colleagues. However, one day a senior colleague cautioned that “fitness is a hobby and finance is your career.” I remember nodding in agreement, but at the same time, those words rang so false. [...]
Business school was my escape. I saw it as a way out of a career in finance that I could no longer envision myself in. It was an opportunity to open the door to social enterprise, what I saw as the nexus of my interests in the private sector, social justice and economic development.
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Let’s face it, folks, when you’re an upper middle class white male from suburban New Jersey who worked at a bulge bracket bank following your college graduation, only speaks one language, has no patents to your name, and hasn’t even worked in a foreign country, hitting the submit button on your application to the world’s best business school – one that prides itself on ethnic, geographic, and industry diversity – felt pretty daunting. [...]
Starting in July, I’ll be back in the same building, the same floor, maybe even the same chair where I sat before coming to HBS in 2014. I am returning to the same finance firm and I couldn’t be more excited. But as some people have reasonably asked, “If you’re going back to where you started, why take the time to come to HBS at all?” It is a fair question, and one that I considered deeply before [...]
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