Insights & Advice
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020
In the summer of 2020, HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) partnered with Flatiron School to provide students with an opportunity to gain practical skills, statistics fundamentals, and real-life data science project experience. We connected with some of the bootcamp participants to hear more about their summer experience. [...]
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
Cagla Kaymaz
Cagla Kaymaz (MBA 2021) reflects on her summer internship experience working remotely with Maverick Ventures, an early stage Venture Capital firm based in San Francisco. [...]
Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital
Becca Carnahan
Walking into Harvard Business School as friends, roommates, and colleagues in 2017, Henri Pierre-Jacques (MBA 2019) and Jarrid Tingle (MBA 2019) already knew each other well. What they didn’t know yet was how their angel syndicate, Harlem Capital, would grow, evolve, and change the face of entrepreneurship and investing over the next two years and beyond. [...]
Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part
Becca Carnahan
Kenneth Chenault (MBA 2019) and Kevin Chenault (MBA 2021) discuss how they, along with Carter Lewis (MBA 2023) and their Anti-Racism Fund co-founders, transformed a GoFundMe project into a nonprofit organization dedicated to making long-term change. [...]
WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB
Brian Sykes
The protests against the unjust murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others since have mobilized the nation to take a stand in support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and against the many policies that have allowed structural and institutional racism to become so entrenched in American life. Co-founder of the HBS Black Investment Club, Brian Sykes (HBS 2020), reflects on his own journey and the reasons why he was so determined to get this initiative off the ground before leaving HBS. [...]
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