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Haakon Brown

Haakon Brown Chicago, Illinois

Originally from Rhode Island, Haakon ventured to the Big Apple at 17 when he began studying mechanical engineering at Columbia University. Upon graduation, he decided that working in engineering really wasn’t his thing and instead began working in IT consulting, first for CSC Consulting and then subsequently Deloitte Consulting. After four years in consulting (and eight years in New York City) he did the typical consulting thing and headed back home to New England to attend business school at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, graduating with an MBA in 2001.

A victim of both the downturn in the economy and his quest for the “perfect job”, Haakon began teaching and tutoring the GMAT to pay the bills and do something worthwhile and rewarding. During a particularly memorable class it was suggested by a number of his students that he teach business school, which sounded like a pretty good idea to him. As a result, Haakon is now a third-year PhD student in marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Haakon scored a 770 on the GMAT.

Outside the classroom, Haakon enjoys sports (he is an avid New England sports fan), cooking and eating (not necessarily in that order), reading, music, photography, and the piano. Inside the classroom you might hear him doing one of his infamous impersonations, which range from Dr. Evil to Yoda. Most of the time, however, you will find him huddled at his cubicle in a windowless office at Kellogg, trying to come up with the next big idea in consumer research.
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