Dear Harvard Business School, I am extremely excited to share my application with you. For years now it has been my dream to attend your MBA program, studying amongst the world’s best professors and most achieved students to earn the education that will influence the rest of my career and the future of my company. To explain how much I also hope to contribute at Harvard, I would like to tell you three stories that characterize who I am. My first story is about family. A small-town Italian from a modest family, my father worked locally as an industrial designer after high school, but he always wanted to be an entrepreneur. Thirty-four years ago, at the age of 22, as soon as he saw a