HBS student club leaders oversee their club’s mission and events, and support their members as they explore their career interests. New club leaders are elected each spring at which point organizations may connect with them on ways that they can partner in the recruiting season ahead. [...]

We caught up with Andrea Coravos after a Q&A she did with MBA Admissions during her second year at HBS. [...]

Susan Levine MBA ‘98 shares her career journey from HBS to her multi-faceted role at Bain Capital. Susan had the opportunity to work in different industries during her time at Bain Capital, including financial services, health care, industrial products, and finally private equity. Now in her role as the Head of North American Private Equity HR and Talent Development, she uses her HBS skill sets to think strategically about their human capital. Gain insights into how her experience at HBS helped her become more efficient at talent acquisition. [...]

A must-have element in our recruiting plan at HBS each year is personal engagement of senior leaders – both HBS alums and even non-HBS alums. Bringing leaders to campus to interact with students or hosting students at our office demonstrates our commitment to hiring fresh talent and also connects students on an intimate level to very senior leaders for informal career path talks and other discussions. [...]

Tell us about where you’re working this summer. I am at Shire, in their Business Development group located in Lexington, MA (soon moving to Kendall Square). Shire is considered “Big Pharma” which basically means it is one of the larger biopharmaceutical companies in the industry, and they focus on multiple therapeutic areas with several pipeline candidates in each of those areas. The Business Development group at Shire is focused on inorganic growth opportunities (acquisitions, licensing, collaborations) that span all therapeutic focus areas at the company, which now has its sights on becoming the world-wide leader in rare diseases. An interesting spin to the summer comes with the closing of the $32B merger with Baxalta the day before I started work, so we are in the midst of integrating them into Shire as we continue day-to-day activities. [...]