Harvard University

St John's College

Associate at Harvard College Consulting Group

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Selected to join a student-run consulting group on campus with less than 10% acceptance rate through rigorous application process. HCCG developed actionable recommendations for industry clients with a combined market capitalization of over $5.2T since 2016. We created a market entry strategy, evaluating both inorganic and organic growth options, a value-based pricing strategy for one of Canada’s largest producers of CBD. In another case, we performed comprehensive data-based analysis of criminal justice efforts for large US-based charity. The research was conducted utilizing case studies, expert interviews, conjoint analysis and focus groups.

Harvard College Consulting Group

Associate

Let's Go, a 60 year-old pre-professional organization at Harvard College, is designed to organize trips to foreign countries and publish an entire travel guide each year. As the Editor-in-Chief, I am expected to work alongside my Publishing Editor in selecting 12 Research-Writers from over 200 applicants, arrange and manage these trips while also serving the conventional role of the Editor-in-Chief: editing the entire 250+ page book of the content solicited from the writers on these trips. Additionally, the Let's Go team is hired by external companies that want to outsource their writing and content-solicitation to Harvard students affiliated with this company. This additional work has translated into working not only in travel-writing, but also in writing business optimization manuals and other specialized, niche fields. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, no Research-Writers could depart to our places and thus the focus of my job turned to optimizing an important agency within a company trying to adapt to a far more challenging economic landscape. This involved weekly meeting with the CEO, CFO and General Manager of HSA, the largest student-run company in the world and the parent company of Let's Go and finding ways in which to optimize the profits of this agency while minimizing costs in order to preserve Let's Go and its immense history and traditions.

Harvard Student Agencies

Editor-in-Chief of Let's Go

Harvard Radio Broadcasting (WHRB 95.3FM)

Radio Host

During my internship at Pan Macmillan, I was expected to work on a variety of projects and use my combination of experience in business analysis and literary close reading derived from my studies at Harvard and my time spent in pre-professional organizations to minimize costs and improve efficiency. I read manuscripts from prospective authors and advised the team on whether or not I believed it would be profitable to publish the book. This involved honing in the skill of literary analysis in order to recognize the places in which authors were exemplary, and the places in which they fell short, as well as forcing me to constantly think of the potential profitability of these books in an industry that is shrinking.

Pan Macmillan

Summer Intern

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