Insights & Advice
Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA
Phillip Andrews
The MS/MBA curriculum builds upon students’ existing technical skills and, through the MBA Program’s first-year required curriculum, adds knowledge in nearly every essential aspect of business, including finance, leadership, marketing, and operations. As a result, students are equipped to add significant value in their summer internship, even as a career switcher. [...]
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. [...]
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