  After the discovery of a Higgs-like boson with a mass of m~125 GeV at the
LHC, we can now attempt to draw conclusions about physics beyond the Standard
Model. I argue that there are several hints towards new physics at intermediate
scales > 10^8 GeV. I review a class of stringy models with intermediate scale
SUSY which relate the observed Higgs mass to symmetries of the Higgs sector. I
then discuss radiative corrections to m_h, unification, dark matter and the
possibility of classically unstable UV completions in these models.
