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After college, I had a vague idea that I would want to return to academics eventually. However, it wasn’t until a few years later that I seriously considered getting an MBA. I had achieved one of my dream jobs as a fashion buyer and was ready for a new challenge, but I wasn’t sure what that next step might be. [...]
Before coming to HBS, I thought of entrepreneurship as a solo endeavor – something you take on only if you have a newsworthy idea, unshakeable self-confidence, and a closet full of black turtlenecks. In my time in consulting and then at a rapidly growing startup, I had come to see myself as the ultimate team player and not at all as the type of person who would strike out on their own. I love getting dropped into new situations and diverse teams to solve new problems and this interest in team dynamics, problem solving, and rapid change made me think that the entrepreneurial path was not for me. [...]
CEO and co-founder of thredUP, James Reinhart, continues to disrupt the retail space. "I never thought we would be in the position to change the way retail works. Creating a circular economy in apparrel that previously had not existed has been the most rewarding part of the journey." [...]
This is why I decided to come to Harvard Business School—to give life to the technology that has the potential to change how we do things, and whose only barrier is a poor revenue model or a misaligned product-market fit. I’m now better equipped to solve these problems, identify the right segment, launch plan, financing, strategy, etc. to get great new ideas off the ground. [...]
It is a feeling that is familiar to many of us, the “career switchers”: beginning an MBA program with a keen interest in a different industry, yet not really sure where to start. [...]
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