Internship - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 2011 (Revised August 2013)
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An Intern's Dilemma

An HBS student is asked to misrepresent himself during the course of his summer internship by his employer in order to obtain data from industry competitors. View Details

Keywords: Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Conflict; Leadership; Conflict Management; Competition; Ethics; Knowledge Acquisition; Organizational Culture; Employees; Power and Influence

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15 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners

(among others) in its history. On top of that, given the pressing need to address the climate crisis, I sought a summer role with a firm focused on sustainable infrastructure investment. This internship allowed me to build my expertise in... View Details

22 Apr 2025
Blog Post

HBS Career Journeys | Rhea Choudhury (MBA 2024)

Rhea Choudhury (MBA 2024) reflects on how HBS broadened her perspective, leading her from engineering to a passion for mission-driven work through a National Park Service internship as an HBS Summer Fellow. View Details

19 Jul 2023
Blog Post

A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations

While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer internship at NPR, her manager recommended that she read an HBS case study about how the Sesame Workshop CEO, Jeff Dunn (MBA 1981), was changing the institution. “I was blown away,”... View Details

05 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology

imagination. Tell us about your summer internship experience?My internship experience was nothing short of incredible. I debated doing a more traditional role in product management for the summer, but... View Details

Keywords: Technology

05 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)

precious three months of my life, not what others might think that I should do,” Takatsuka shared. “I ended up pursuing two internships in developing countries in the middle of COVID-19 – no one recommended that I do that! But for me, I... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Technology; Entrepreneurship

22 Aug 2018
Blog Post

The National Park Services: A Mini-Business with a Twist

My internship with the National Park Service has given me a unique perspective on park operations. In my view, each park unit (there are 417 in the U.S.!) runs like a mini-business, with a twist. Generally, each park has the following... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

25 Aug 2017
Blog Post

HBS Interns: Summer Takeovers

The summer internship experience provides students the opportunity to apply their learnings to a real business environment and continue exploring their career interests. With the majority of the class completing View Details

Keywords: All Industries

26 Oct 2020
Blog Post

12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition

When it became clear that my summer internship with Maverick Ventures, an early stage Venture Capital firm based in San Francisco, was going to be remote, I had a lot of questions on my mind. What would it be like to work with a team I... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

06 Nov 2021
News

Employers Partner with Community Colleges to Fill the Talent Pipeline

17 Jul 2017
Blog Post

HBS Summer Interns: Discover Their Career Passions

Meet four Class of 2018 students who share the career criteria that drove their internship searches, and how their respective organizations aligned with their passions. Accepting a summer internship at Nike,... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Technology; Manufacturing; Consumer Products / Retail

Career Coach

Irtaza Ali

lead the launch of their fintech division focused on building a retail brokerage product. He is particularly well equipped to helping students in 3 areas: 1) investment banking internships in the U.S., 2) networking to source start-up... View Details

08 Apr 2025
Blog Post

HBS Career Journeys | Haoran Jiang (MBA 2024)

Haoran Jiang (MBA 2024) emphasizes how coaching and self-reflection helped him prioritize family and fulfillment, pivoting from a misaligned internship to a hands-on role in strategic finance. View Details

08 Feb 2017
Video

Francesca Ioffreda, MBA 2017

09 Aug 2016
Video

The Making of an Internship: An Effective Onboarding Process

Career Coach

Claire D'Silva

Claire led Strategic Business Development at Klarna before HBS and has previous experience in Strategy at Chase in New York. She led hiring for groups at both organizations and can provide insight into what they’re looking for in a candidate. She spent last summer in... View Details

26 Apr 2024
Blog Post

How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Matthew Young

We sat down with Matthew Young (MBA 2025) to hear more about how he spent his deferral years. Why did you decide to apply to HBS via the 2+2 deferred admissions process? I decided to apply to HBS via 2+2 following my junior year of undergrad. During my View Details

08 Feb 2017
Video

Ahmed Eldemerdash, MBA 2017

03 Aug 2017
Blog Post

“I Can Acquire Important Skills, But Also Gain the Big Picture Perspective of a Founder.”

which Rahil met his internship employer. “My internship search wasn’t really constructed on a traditional path with research, interviews and offers,” says Rahil. Instead, his TEM class provoked a change in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

16 Aug 2018
Blog Post

A Day in the Life as a ‘Spreadsheet Ranger’

Olivia Staffon, MBA 2019, shares a day in the life during her summer internship at the National Park Service, Dinosaur Park. Her project is focused on evaluating opportunities for sharing operational resources such as equipment, labor, or... View Details