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The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. This summer, Zach Komes led a strategic project with the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce to explore how private sector partnerships within the local economy can create new family-supporting jobs and reduce the racial wealth gap. [...]
Chad Losee, Managing Director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid, recently sat down with Cyril Straughn-Turner, second-year MBA student and Chief Admissions Ambassador, for a “Busting HBS Myths” event aimed at demystifying what business school is really like and what is important in the HBS application process. Below are excerpts from their conversation touching on 5 top myths about HBS and the MBA application. [...]
In fall 2020, the Harvard Kennedy School incorporated a two-week module on Race and Racism in the Making of the United States as a Global Super power into the MPP core curriculum. The school created this module in response to calls by the student-led HKS Equity Coalition for a course on the history of race and inequity. Led by Professors Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Sandra Susan Smith, the course was designed to ensure a consistent understanding of the race and racism not as tangential to U.S. history, but “at the heart of the American project.” Two HBS/HKS joint degree students, Morgan Brewton-Johnson (a Black woman from Atlanta, Georgia) and Austin Boral (a white man from Jericho, New York) share their thoughts on the course. [...]
Learning about racial injustice in a classroom and meeting with those who are experiencing and working on the issue are two different things. This class had the perfect balance of both and was a rare opportunity to have meaningful conversations and, for me, explore what allyship as a future business leader can look like. [...]
This year, HBS piloted its first student-run Impact Investing Fund, focused on investing in BIPOC-led and owned small businesses in the Massachusetts area. Since launching, the fund has raised $200k, completed diligence on eight businesses, and is in the process of executing its first investment. [...]
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