Professors, administrators, and students share advice and recommendations for EC course selection. Students arrive at Harvard Business School with little say in how their first year will look academically. It is called “Required Curriculum (RC)” for good reason: all students face the same three-case days, seek help from finance-savvy peers across sections or in their… Continue reading Landing Your Dream EC Schedule
Category: On Campus
Love on the Brain
After Valentine’s Day, HBS students reflect on the state of romance on campus. Rory Finnegan, Editor-in-Chief We’re a few drinks deep when the topic finally comes up. Maybe we’re at Daedelus or Alden & Harlow or someone’s apartment in Continuum. It probably took us three tries to schedule this but now that we’re here, we… Continue reading Love on the Brain
Citizens Arrest Stuns RC Section During Landmark LCA Class
In a vulnerable moment, an RC student shared their personal experience with fraud and was subsequently placed under citizen’s arrest by a hotshot JD/MBA section mate. In the seventy-fifth minute of an afternoon Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) class, an RC section was stunned when JD/MBA student Fred Eralé declared he was placing fellow section… Continue reading Citizens Arrest Stuns RC Section During Landmark LCA Class
Female Professors at HBS Series: Elisabeth Paulson
Loujaine AlMoallim (MBA ’24) interviews RC TOM Professor Elisabeth Paulson about her personal journey, her time at HBS, and her advice for HBS leaders. Can you briefly tell us about your journey that got you to where you are today? My mom was a statistics professor, so a career in academia was always something that… Continue reading Female Professors at HBS Series: Elisabeth Paulson
Juggling Business and Comedy: Improv at HBS Is Alive and Kicking
This tight-knit community meets every week to be silly and let loose. Planning conferences is cool and all, but do you ever find yourself searching for an extracurricular activity that is a little bit…different? Look no further than the HBS improv club. It’s the one official place on campus where students can let loose and… Continue reading Juggling Business and Comedy: Improv at HBS Is Alive and Kicking
Our Roads to Harvard
Edgard Mejico shares stories of how some incoming international students navigated their way to campus over the past years. As international students, our road towards Harvard can sometimes take some detours and unexpected turns that help us grow, learn and lead even before we reach campus to start the semester. For my first article in… Continue reading Our Roads to Harvard
A Bullish Take on Inclusive Leadership
The RC Inclusive Leadership course had many detractors, but intrigued many others. Yoshita Agrawal (MBA ’23) opines on the latter. The Inclusive Leadership course has had mixed reviews this semester. While most of my classmates found it lacking in a multitude of ways, and there was a consensus on how it was not helping HBS… Continue reading A Bullish Take on Inclusive Leadership
Leadership and Happiness
Robert Waldinger joins HBS Professor Arthur Brooks in his Leadership and Happiness class to share insights from the longest study on adult life ever performed. Alex Smith (MBA ‘23) reports. I hesitated to write this article because, as an RC, I selfishly wanted to keep the secret of Arthur Brooks’ Leadership and Happiness class under… Continue reading Leadership and Happiness
An Upgrade to Campus Housing
While the campus population was away making the most of the winter break, HBS Housing was approaching ‘the end of the beginning’ of their ambitious project—state of the art, luxurious dorm rooms for future HBS campus residents. Starting last year, the HBS Housing team began upgrading some of the empty dorm rooms with several important… Continue reading An Upgrade to Campus Housing
HBS Tech Conference 2022: Stepping into Our Role as Digital-Native Leaders
The HBS Tech conference is happening in-person! Tickets on sale now. The first HBS Tech Conference was convened 30 years ago in 1992. In the three decades since, we have witnessed an unprecedented explosion of new technologies that have reshaped how people live, interact and thrive. In frontier technology, we have seen rapid advances in… Continue reading HBS Tech Conference 2022: Stepping into Our Role as Digital-Native Leaders
The Incredible Women Teaching the RC this Year
Ziana Kotadia (MBA ’22) asked the RC professors to introduce themselves and share their advice to the new class of students joining us this fall. Welcome Class of 2023. We hope you enjoy the year ahead, it promises to be a great one. Professor Jill Avery, Marketing In 2021-2022, I will be teaching two courses:… Continue reading The Incredible Women Teaching the RC this Year
From the Editor’s Desk: Meet Your New Topic Editors!
Welcome to HBS class of 2023! And welcome back home, class of 2022. A year has officially passed since the latter, which includes myself, arrived on campus, unsure of what a hybrid HBS experience would look like. We were also unsure of how long it would last. A new September brings new questions, but also… Continue reading From the Editor’s Desk: Meet Your New Topic Editors!
Leadership Truths that Transcend the Pandemic
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter shares lessons on leadership she has learned throughout the years. One of my favorite aphorisms is: Change is a threat when done TO me; it is an opportunity when done BY me. No wonder this Covid-19 pandemic year has been so disturbing. It has tilted heavily toward change done TO us.… Continue reading Leadership Truths that Transcend the Pandemic
B’Well B’School
A group of health and wellness enthusiasts launch a brand new HBS student club Now more than ever, focusing on health and wellness has become a staple for staying sane in our new day-to-day. As many elements of our lives continue to change, we have noticed a pull towards healthy living, whether through at-home workouts,… Continue reading B’Well B’School
Bumps in Business School
Monika Berankyte (MBA ’22) reports on the experience of two families having a baby while studying at Harvard Business School. Thought business school was hard? Try having a baby while at Harvard Business School. Two families share with us their stories. Adriana Cruz Martins (MBA ’22) and Andras “How does it make you feel when… Continue reading Bumps in Business School
Advice for Approaching Your Post-MBA Career: Reflect
In his column for the Harbus, Professor Trevor Fetter shares his thoughts on the issues facing HBS students. It is a scary season, and not just because I am writing this on Halloween. The markets are volatile, the election is next week, and we are still in the midst of a global pandemic. You are… Continue reading Advice for Approaching Your Post-MBA Career: Reflect
Sports at HBS: wee30
Felipe Cerón (MBA ’22) reports on what HBS students are doing to stay in shape and surf through Covid-19 rather than being crushed by it. Sports is one vital part of our wellbeing that has been hit hard by Covid-19. We love sports—it keeps us sane and in shape, helps develop our team skills, and… Continue reading Sports at HBS: wee30
Building Our Mental Palaces
Hans Husmann (MBA ’22) shares his way of taking the transformational journey at HBS, one mental image at time. Pursuing your MBA at HBS will be a transformative experience. From the moments of epiphany during a great class visit to the explicit message during the Dean’s welcome, the school is not short on emphasizing this… Continue reading Building Our Mental Palaces
Women Leadership: An Introduction to the Class of 2022
Five women in the class of 2022 share with us their stories of leadership. There are so many different ways to welcome the class of 2022 and introduce them to the HBS community. We could talk about challenges, uncertainty, connectedness or innovation, but in the end, it all comes down to leadership. Sheryl Sandberg (MBA… Continue reading Women Leadership: An Introduction to the Class of 2022
Help, I’m a FOMO Sapiens!
Patrick J. McGinnis (MBA ’04), who created the term FOMO while a student at HBS, helps Michael Deliakis (MBA ’20) understand and overcome FOMO. It was titled “Social Theory at HBS: McGinnis’ Two FOs” and printed in the Humor section of the Harbus in May 2004. Fast forward 15 years: today, the terms FOMO and… Continue reading Help, I’m a FOMO Sapiens!
Perspectives: Engaging with and Embracing Differences at HBS & Beyond
Join us on November 13 in Klarman for the Campus-Wide Discussion. Can you respect, and perhaps even love, those who have fundamentally different views from you? Today, we’re living in a time of heightened polarization, when people are not engaging constructively with those who differ from themselves. The result is tribal politics, ideological siloing, and… Continue reading Perspectives: Engaging with and Embracing Differences at HBS & Beyond
The Eighth Annual Harvard Real Estate Weekend
Now in its eighth year, the Harvard Real Estate Weekend is the University’s flagship real estate event jointly presented by the Real Estate Clubs of Harvard Business School and the Graduate School of Design. This year, we were honored and pleased to host a sold-out conference on March 9 and 10, which was attended by… Continue reading The Eighth Annual Harvard Real Estate Weekend
China Rises—But Does It Know What It Wants?
An ancient civilization restores its “rightful” place in the world, but where does it belong? Ryo Takahashi (MBA ’20) talks with Professor Meg Rithmire. China’s transformation from a rural, agrarian society to an economy second only to that of the United States feels less like a successful growth story and more like a miracle. Underlying… Continue reading China Rises—But Does It Know What It Wants?
Adapting to Your New World
In his monthly column for the Harbus, Professor Kevin W. Sharer shares his thoughts on the issues facing HBS students. May comes again as we celebrate, encourage, and recognize another 900 or so new HBS graduates. This is a singular honor, privilege, and accomplishment that will always reflect credit upon you and set you apart.… Continue reading Adapting to Your New World
Klarman’s First HBS Show Impresses
HBS Executive Education’s Nathaniel Koven reviews No Clue. The 46th HBS Show, No Clue: The Case You Can’t Prepare For, was always going to go down in HBS history as the first theatrical production in the recently-completed Klarman Hall, but what a smashing first it was. This production, which ran April 8–10, was an unalloyed… Continue reading Klarman’s First HBS Show Impresses
From a Dark Moment to Our Finest Hour
Kel Jackson (MBA ’19) reflects on the community’s response to anonymous death threats sent to him and other black HBS students. On an afternoon in late March, an anonymous individual sent death threats to me and several other leaders of the African-American Student Union at HBS (AASU). In addition to direct threats to the recipients… Continue reading From a Dark Moment to Our Finest Hour
From the Editors’ Desk: From HBS to the World Beyond
This month, RCs head towards their internship summers, while ECs go forth into “the real world.” The near-term fates of these two classes are starkly different. How can one editors’ note be meaningful for both of them? Perhaps a modified version of the all-too-familiar (to us) Mary Oliver question can be illuminating. Tell us, what… Continue reading From the Editors’ Desk: From HBS to the World Beyond
From the Editors’ Desk
C’est le provisoire qui dure (“it’s the makeshift that lasts”). Nestled near the end of the case that RCs were assigned for Friday’s BGIE class, this adage was a thought-provoking highlight amidst a dense and challenging account of Bretton Woods and the liberal world order spanning 15½ pages (plus 14 exhibits—ECs, don’t you miss BGIE?).… Continue reading From the Editors’ Desk
My Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams
My good friend and classmate, Leila Meliani (MBA ’20), tipped off Black History Month with an amazing reflection on her family history. As she told her story, I couldn’t help but cry and reflect on the pain my ancestors endured so I could be considered human. Even more serendipitous was the shirt she wore which… Continue reading My Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams
Dealing with Anxiety
Recently two former CEOs of large multinational companies (one British and one American) were talking about the most serious mental health problems that exist in the large American and British universities they each chair. Surprisingly the challenge on both sides of the Atlantic and echoed at two university chair meetings they had just attended was… Continue reading Dealing with Anxiety