Insights & Advice
The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”
Aaron Scheinfeld, MBA 2019, did not launch a formal search for his summer internship. Yet he found an opportunity he is excited about, largely by pursuing the interests that come naturally to him. [...]
Reimagining Fashion For The Good Of All
Paula Vich Serra
After having completed my first year of the Harvard Business School (HBS) MBA program, I will spend my summer as an intern in the company’s Strategy Department. It reports directly to the Management Board and works on projects that will steer the future of the company. [...]
Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago
- 21 May 2018
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I spent most of my career harnessing the power of business to effect positive social change. Before and after attending HBS, I helped grow Working Assets (now Credo, founded by Laura Scher, MBA 1985) into a successful social enterprise that has generated more than $80 million for nonprofits. Whereas Working Assets is a for-profit enterprise whose business model includes 1% of revenue being donated to nonprofits, Accion Chicago is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to build communities through entrepreneurship. [...]
Meet the Entrepreneurship Club
Sara Choi
- 08 May 2018
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The Entrepreneurship Club at the Harvard Business School is dedicated to creating a thriving entrepreneurial community that lasts beyond HBS. We provide high quality events and interactions to help aspiring, joining, and founding entrepreneurs “find their people” and demystify what it takes to begin a successful business. [...]
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
Nanako Yano
Nanako Yano grew up in Tokyo, Japan and attended Pomona College in California. After graduating, she worked with Oliver Wyman in New York City and then moved to Swaziland to work with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) until two years later she was admitted into the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program. We caught up with Nanako to learn more about her experience with the HBS/HKS joint degree program and her plans to make an impact on the world. [...]