It’s Tuesday afternoon, March 4th. A lively group of HBS students passionate about retail entrepreneurship sit in Aldrich 108, waiting. Then “ping!” – up pop Julia Straus (HBS ’11) and Katharine Hill (HBS ’12) who both work at BaubleBar, the growing one-stop retailer for affordable jewelry, on the big screen. Our virtual conversation is live!

Julia is the Director of [...]

By the time you read this, the 940 first-year students of the Class of 2015 will have just returned from HBS FIELD 2. FIELD 2 is a program where 6 person teams of first-year students are partnered with a foreign company in a financially emerging country. Starting in October, we begin working, from the US, with our global partners on a pressing business issue. The project concludes with a [...]

In the blink of an eye the tree leaves have turned from green to vibrant shades of orange, red, and yellow and finally to various hues of brown as the wind blows through and sweeps them away. Just like that, three months have gone by since HBS started. In the first month, I was wondering what I would do with my free time. By the second month, I found myself wondering where my free time [...]

At Sonation we’ve been working all summer toward product launch day, and the day has finally come!
Last week I went to Michigan with my cofounder Paul to demo the app at Interlochen, one of the premier summer arts camps in the US. Of all the things entrepreneurs do, user testing is definitely my favorite! The night before demo day, though, we got an email from Apple saying the app was [...]

Today is the last day of my summer internship. My work is done – all the i’s are dotted and all the t’s are crossed, and my desk shows little sign that I have used it for the past 11 weeks. I have always hated endings. That isn’t to say that it doesn’t feel great to have finally stopped revising my PowerPoint deck and to have presented my work to the project leaders – the sense of [...]