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Membership: Member Interviews

Owen Colligan

(Interview continued from e-mail newsletter.)

Q. You also received a JD from NYU Law School. Which degree do you use more?
A. I use both degrees equally. I do a lot of negotiating, where both business and legal background help. A legal background certainly helps for all the documentation that goes along with investing, as well.
Q. You are five years out – will you be attending your reunion?
A.

My reunion is this weekend. I'm boarding the plane for Boston right now. HBS was a great experience. I got to meet great people. I was a little older than average, because I had already got a law degree, but I'm happy I went.

Q. Why Northeast Ohio?
A. Two reasons: I had bought a business here, and my wife is from here and she was pregnant, and New York City—where we were living—is a tough place to live with kids.
Q. Any hobbies, activities, sports?
A.

Work and family are my hobbies, activities and sports.

Q. For a while, your name, picture, and biographic information were the most visited parts of the HBS-NEO web site. Enlighten me.
A. I have no idea and no theories on that one.

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