For decades, WesTrek has been the flagship professional trek at Harvard Business School, giving students direct access to the heart of the tech industry. The February 2025 trek came at an especially exciting time, with breakthroughs in generative AI, quantum computing, cloud computing, and robotics redefining the future. [...]

When Apoorva Pasricha (MBA 2019) assumed her role with the City of San Jose’s Mayor’s Office of Technology & Innovation as an HBS Leadership Fellow in August 2019, her mandate was to implement San Jose’s ‘Smart City’ road map. Then the coronavirus pandemic struck, and suddenly Pasricha and her colleagues had to reorganize their functional priorities. [...]