Tips & tricks masuk ke Harvard

July 1, 2020

Presenter:
Farand Anugerah
Nadhira Afifa
 Today’s Agenda
19:00 – 19:05 = Speakers’ self introduction
19:05 – 19:25 = Nadhira’s presentation
19:25 – 19:45 = Farand’s presentation
19:45 – 20:00 = Q&A (Ask your questions via
chatbox)
Hi, My name is Farand Anugerah!

BNP Paribas Securities Harvard

Harvard Business
Business School
School
2021 MBA Candidate
Equity Research Associate MBA Candidate

Jan 2014-Jan 2015 June 2016-Aug 2019 April 2020-Current

Jan 2015-May 2016 Aug

Sept2019-May
2019-May2020
2020

Bank of America Merrill Lynch Grab Indonesia & Philippines

Equity Research Associate Head of New Business Segari
Co-founder
1. Why MBA (Master of
Business Administration) at
HBS?
 Global Network

Case-study method

Why MBA? (real business cases)

Exposure to world-
class faculties
2. B-school Application
Requirement
Now…
…What and when do you need to prepare*?
Step 1 Step 2

Undergartuate Two-years Two to six

- Senior year working years working
experience experience

GMAT/GRE Self-reflect 1.TOEFL (only for non-English undergrad

Fresh brain – both verbal and
quant
Valid for five years
What do you want to do in the next
10 years?
How can business school help you
to get there?
What is the tradeoff?
Choose your university
institution students) Google your options &
2.Recommendation letters reach out to alumni
3.School application form
4. Essay

*not definitive, but recommended

Now…
…What and when do you need to prepare*?
Step 1 Step 2

Undergartuate Two-years Two to six

- Senior year working years working
experience experience

GMAT/GRE Self-reflect 1.TOEFL (only for non-English undergrad

Fresh brain – both verbal and
quant
Valid for five years
What do you want to do in the next
10 years?
How can business school help you
to get there?
What is the tradeoff?
Choose your university
institution students) Google your options &
2.Recommendation letters reach out to alumni
3.School application form
4. Essay

*not definitive, but recommended

3. Tips for Postgraduate
applicants
Tips for you all...
Do self-reflection before you apply. Why?
Tips for you all…
What to think of during self reflection

1 Determine 2 Think of your 3 Weigh the pros

your passion options and cons
Personal story…
The day I graduated, I self-reflected of what I want
to be…

…But I found myself People who I deemed as

Yes, I want to be a lacking network and mentors shared the
techpreneur… management skills I talked to tons of people to importance of attending
broaden my perspectives business schools given my
engineering background

On April 2, 2020, I launched

Segari I hustled, spending my whole
The network and experience I weekends preparing
built at HBS builds the application for more than six
fundamentals of my dream I got in to HBS :) months
4. Meet Segari
S e g a r i is an agrit e c h
c o m p a n y a i m i n g to change
the way Indonesians buy fresh
goods by l e v e ra g i n g social
n e t w o r k a n d microlocal
community
Segari empowers hundreds of micro
business owners and farmers

Our network of agents earn up Segari farmers benefit from selling direct to
end-users, resulting in 200% income jump
to IDR10m monthly
S e g ar i is fo un d e d b y a t e a m w h o h a s
strong understanding of local m a r k e t
& complexity of the industry, a n d
k n o w s h o w t o c r a c k it
Yosua (Co-founder) Gema (Ops)
E x - B C G , Ex- Tr av e l oka, E x - P r i v a t e Equ it y , E x p e r i e nc ed Entr epreneur, e x - C O O
Ex pe r ie nc ed Entrepreneur Spe c ial t y : F i n a n c e , A c c o u n t i n g ,
Spe c ia l t y : S a l e s & M a r k e t i n g , P r o d u c t Ops, Le gal
Manager, Finance, Strategy, C om m od it y

Farand (Co-founder) Ryan (Ops)

H a r v a r d B u s i n e s s Sc h ool , E x - G r a b , E x - Ex-Stoqo, Ex-Astra
I n v e s t m e n t B a n k e r , W o r k i n g X P in C h i n a Spe c ial t y : O p s , Logist ic s, P e o p l e ,
Spe c ia l t y : O p s , G r o w t h H a c k , F i n a n c e , Fresh Produce, Pr oc e ssing
Management, Expansion

Farandy (Co-founder) Yafi (Tech)

Ex-Google, Ex - A ma zon, Ex-Moka, C a r n e g i e Mellon, M c K i n s e y , E x - M o k a
U C Berkeley Spe c ial t y : Te c h , P r o b l e m Sol v e r,
Spe c ial t y : Te c h , P r o b l e m Sol v e r, O p s back-end, Sy st e m Architect
People Ops, Ma n a g e me n t
You all here are privileged and talented graduates/students…
…Segari strives to hire the best talent

Sales & Marketing Operations Product/Tech

• Marketing • Sourcing • UI/UX Designer

• Key Account Manager
• Purchasing • Full stack engineer
• Warehouse operations
• Special Projects
• Accounting
• Customer Service Lead
• POPs (People Operations)
• General Administrative &
Admin

Send your CV to farand8@gmail.com with subject (YourName-InterestedJobRole)

Thank You!

Q&A