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Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
Stephen Moret has long been driven by a passion for advocacy and leadership. As copresident of the HBS Student Association (SA), Moret created an online Student Issues Poll as a way to bridge the communication gap between students, the SA, and the HBS administration. In the past, there was not a systematic way for students to voice their concerns, says Moret, a soft-spoken Mississippi native. We created a process for identifying student priorities and worked with the administration to address those concerns.
The poll, which covered a wide range of issues, was completed last spring and resulted in a variety of positive changes, including extending hours at the Shad athletic facility, improving the recruiting process, redesigning Admit Day, and cutting down on junk e-mail. Longer-term issues like course selection in the elective curriculum are also being evaluated as a result of the poll. This spring, the second annual poll garnered an impressive 92 percent response rate among first-year students.
Moret was first drawn to student affairs at Louisiana State University, where he had been admitted on a music scholarship and ultimately studied mechanical engineering. His election to the student senate as an engineering representative, a post that proved fortifying and challenging, ignited his interest in working on behalf of others and improving the way things function. He then ran for president of the LSU student body and won, basing his campaign on a platform of reform. As president, Moret created a new, reorganized student government and lobbied the faculty to place a greater emphasis on teaching quality in granting tenure.
After graduating from LSU, Moret remained in Baton Rouge and worked as an environmental strategy consultant before accepting a position as assistant to the chancellor of LSU. Buoyed by his academic and professional successes and inspired in part by the career of former Louisiana Governor Franklin D. (Buddy) Roemer (MBA 1971), he decided to apply to HBS. With characteristic self-deprecating humor, Moret admits that it might sound nerdy, but his choice was driven by the Schools mission to develop leaders who contribute to the well-being of society.
HBS has given me an expanded sense of perspective and of what is attainable, says Moret, who recently completed a field study on developing a market-based solution for delivering low-cost HIV/AIDS drugs to Malawi. Im the guy who still cant believe I got to go to school here.
After traveling around the world this fall, Moret will take a position in McKinseys Washington, D.C., office, where he hopes to spend some time working with the firms new nonprofit practice. In addition to the benefits of being in the midst of the countrys leading public-policy thinkers, Moret will be near his mother his inspiration, as he calls her who worked her way from small-town Mississippi pharmacist to COO of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists.
Moret eventually plans to return to Louisiana or Mississippi, where he intends to help advance the region through either the public or private sector. My heart really belongs in the South, he says with an affable smile. I think I can make a difference there.
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