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to shake Wall Street, Main Street, and

Pennsylvania Avenue. If you work in

corporate America, there’s a good

chance that Harvard Business School

grads have shaped your everyday life,

too, weighing in on how much privacy

you need in your workspace, how many

team-building sessions you need to attend

per year, and whether creativity is

best achieved through brainstorming or

solitude. Given the scope of their influence,

it’s worth taking a look at who

enrolls here—and what they value by

the time they graduate.

The student who wishes me luck in

finding an introvert at HBS no doubt

believes that there are none to be

found. But clearly he doesn’t know his

first-year classmate Don Chen. I first

meet Don in Spangler, where he’s

seated only a few couches away from

the road-trip planners. He comes across

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