Harvard Business School - 09-28-2023

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September 28, 2023 3:27pm ET

Applying: Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, UPenn / Wharton

Intake Year: 2024

Pre-MBA Career: Strategy consulting (M&A, life sciences focus)

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Pharmaceutical Companies: PWC

GMAT: 760

GPA: 3.5

Years of Work Experience: 5

Post MBA Location: NYC / DC (sponsored)

Notes:

Since sponsored, near-term have to go back. Long-term hope to lead growth stage biotechs through their scaling process and need the network of investors and broader base of education to do it.

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1587 Sponsorship is great. Showing impact and growth at work is key. Are you also involved in activities outside of work? Super GMAT, too. No Stanford? (0)

anon23016 Likes Earned: 3 Yes, I am on the board of a small University-affiliated nonprofit ($2M pa) and support a local animal rescue by I) building PowerPoints / supporting the CEO in presentation structuring / design and I) fostering dogs (1)

r-l-m-3998 Likes Earned: 3 No Stanford, GPA way too low, it’s not worth the crunch I don’t think (1)

anon23016 Likes Earned: 3 and there’s definitely room to show growth and impacts. Two early promotions, various firm-wide impacts (one policy change, one new initiative), very strong client (F20 and large cap PE clients) and people (especially mentorship, culture, junior team development) impacts I can point to (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1587 Any context for the GPA? Everything else does look strong. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1587 More details on this candidacy on this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2023/10/mba-wire-taps-313-fintech-to-media-teacher-to-human-resources-strategy-consulting-to-biotech/ (0)