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Allie Bienenstock is switching from CPG to startups with an HBS MBA
- 09 Aug 2019
Making the Switch from CPG to a Self-Driving Car Startup through my Summer Internship
Coming from an incumbent CPG company, it was a significant change working at a pre-revenue startup. At the time, I was considering whether an internship in San Francisco was the right choice for me. Seven months later, I find myself living in San Francisco and riding to work in the back of a self-driving car. [...]
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Snigdha Sur (MBA 2017) is the Founder and CEO of The Juggernaut, a digital media company for South Asian stories
- 06 Aug 2019
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling
I’ve been drawn to media since I was little. During a traditional Bengali ceremony for babies when they can eat their first solid food, they are presented with three choices on a tray: grain, a pen, and a gold coin. Grain represents a love for food. The pen, a love for learning. And gold, a love for business. My mom told me I picked up the pen with one hand and the gold coin with another. Even as a baby, I wanted to have it all. [...]
Nearly 400 teams from three tracks—alumni, social enterprise, and business—competed in the 2019 Harvard Business School New Venture Competition. Experience their journeys from ideation, pitching, failures (and successes!), pivots, lows and highs, all culminating in the finale event where winners from each track were announced. [...]
My decision to pursue entrepreneurship, often referred to as a lonely path, partly stemmed from the flexibility to create an environment compatible with my preferred style of working – quiet, intentional, and thorough. [...]
This post is part of the Social Enterprise Initiative 25th anniversary blog series, which highlights some of the faculty, staff, students, and alumni who have been a part of SEI throughout the years. In this post, Misan Rewane (MBA 2013, NVC 2013 Winner) shares her insights on founding and leading a social enterprise. Misan is the cofounder and CEO of WAVE (West Africa Vocational Education), an organization dedicated to tackling youth unemployment in West Africa. [...]
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