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- 20 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Thinking About an MBA? Think About Your Purpose
Why get an MBA? Many of my students are excited to acquire the tools that will help them solve the complex challenges that await them in the business world. That is admirable, but I have found that my most successful students are also guided by a personal sense of... View Details
- 23 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Trends in Consumer Products
A job search in Consumer Products requires thorough research to understand how Covid has affected a company’s business. Most consumer products companies had very uneven business results—some brands saw enormous growth and others saw significant declines as consumers... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Redefining the Term Networking at HBS
Every year, Harvard Business School welcomes 900 new business students. The campus buzzes with excitement, which never fades as the days, weeks, and months pass. As relationships are forged, dreams shared, and ideas generated, well-placed ambition is fueled by the fact... View Details
- 24 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
Learning to Code at Business School
These days more and more MBA students are choosing to pursue a career in tech. At HBS, 20% of the Class of 2015 went into the tech industry after graduation and the Code Club is an active student group on campus. For many, having some basic coding knowledge is a must. ... View Details
- 06 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
Casey Gerald: Becoming a Leader at HBS
Career and Professional Development “Take ECs to lunch” program, where they gave you meal vouchers to take ECs [second-years] to go to lunch with you. I decided to go through the entire second year resume book to find people that I call... View Details
- 30 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Latina Women in Leadership: Jacqueline Burgos (MBA 2014)
Jacqueline Burgos (MBA 2014) grew up in Brooklyn, New York and received a BBA from Pace University’s Pforzheimer Honors College with a concentration in Accounting and minors in Economics and Latin American Studies. During her time at HBS she interned at Univision and... View Details
- 08 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
CS50 for MBAs: Coding at HBS
I was an English major at Yale and worked at JPMorgan Chase in investment banking and corporate strategy in the years before HBS. So I knew enough about words and numbers to be dangerous, but certainly didn't know very much about bits & bytes. I liked to tell... View Details
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Ben Faw
and Professional Development led Ben to a career coach who graduated from both HBS and West Point. For the summer, Ben will intern with LinkedIn in San Francisco where he will “gain more experience in an area I don’t know anything about.”... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
How HBS Supported My Career Transitions During and After Graduation
work just as I did. We traded suggestions, job leads, complaints, and plenty of jokes as we worked together to get everyone hired. Everyone in that group (30+ classmates) found work by the end of 2020. My career coach Martha from the HBS Career and View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow
I came to HBS with an interest in social impact but without any specific career convictions. Over the past year, the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) has been especially influential in guiding my career choices. Most tangibly, SEI helped me find my summer internship... View Details
- 26 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
From Product Development to Business School
I sat there silently screaming. Eyes flitting across the room at the faces sitting around the table gathered for a Brita leadership team meeting. They couldn’t possibly do it, I thought to myself, clutching my 3D-printed prototype like a wounded sparrow. I had spent... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Attending HBS to Grow the Family Business
As a kid, Lauren Derse (MBA 2010) hit the family business jackpot. Her mom was the CEO and founder of—you guessed it—a chain of toy store franchises. After growing up in small town Massachusetts (and thriving in her role as resident toy tester) Lauren attended Penn... View Details
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By: Debora L. Spar
Managing International Trade and Investment
Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details
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Jackie Burgos
was the youngest-ever president of the school’s Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting club and helped it become one of the school’s most popular and well regarded clubs.” With an appreciation for the value of networking, she... View Details
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Kim Chen
delivered on this both in and out of the classroom. I also valued the opportunity for personal development through introspection, discussion, and experience. Various programs offered through the Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD) courses,... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship in General Management
Like many of his classmates, Andrew Ling (MBA 2015) decided to use the summer between his first and second year to try out something new. Formerly a consultant at McKinsey, he spent his summer working in a marketing and general management role at General Mills –... View Details
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Ralph Johnson
Why did you want the MBA? After graduating from Hampton University, I went to work with Accenture—I thought I could work across different functions and industries to find my calling. But I ended up working exclusively in healthcare, and I felt I was specializing too... View Details
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- 30 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent with Professor Hakeem Belo-Osagie
Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) are courses that offer students a great opportunity to think about career choices, gain practical skills, and explore topics you might otherwise never get to study. These courses run for one week in January before the start of the Spring... View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Exploring Cleantech at HBS
1.3 billion people around the world lack access to energy, and for everyone else, most of their energy comes from sources that are often unreliable, expensive, and detrimental to the environment. I had worked on sustainable transportation at Tesla before HBS, and came... View Details
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
The Health Care Conference and the Convening Power of HBS
during the roundtable lunches. At one point during ASW, a current student gave us the advice to "shoot for the moon" while at HBS—he told us that we would be surprised by the people who would answer our emails, give us advice, and help us in our academic and View Details