Category: Outside the Bubble

HBS students’ reflections on the wider world “outside the bubble” of our beautiful Allston campus.

Advice for entrepreneurs: Playing the long game

Angela Winkle, RC and Communications Director for the Womens’ Students Association, reports on the WSA’s most recent Fireside Chat, with Jules Pieri (MBA ‘86), CEO of The Grommet. By Angela Winkle, RC It’s that time of year — RCs are abuzz with visions of Field 3 projects that will turn into the next overnight (or at… Continue reading Advice for entrepreneurs: Playing the long game

Finalists Announced in Harvard Business School/Harvard Medical School Health Acceleration Challenge

*This post originally appeared on The HBS News Release, written by Jim Aisner & Christian Camerota. BOSTON—The Forum on Health Care Innovation, a collaboration between Harvard Business School (HBS) and Harvard Medical School (HMS), announced today the four finalists in its Health Acceleration Challenge, which focuses on taking compelling, already-implemented health care solutions and helping them… Continue reading Finalists Announced in Harvard Business School/Harvard Medical School Health Acceleration Challenge

Team of Harvard RCs Wins Interactive Launch Competition at NYU

By Jeff Zeller, RC A team of RCs recently traveled to New York City to compete in this year’s Interactive Launch Competition, a case competition sponsored by members and companies within the cable industry.  Dani Haber (Section G), along with Jeff Zeller, Mishal Desai and James Francis (Section B) beat out teams from top business… Continue reading Team of Harvard RCs Wins Interactive Launch Competition at NYU

HBS 2012 Alum ‘Goes Rogue’, Quits his Job at BCG to Make a Film About Climate Change

  Diogo Castro Freire (MBA ‘12) walked out of his job in management consulting and picked up a video camera to document the stories of the communities in the US dealing with the first impacts of climate change, and those of the people working toward sensible solutions. As Diogo launches an Indiegogo campaign to support… Continue reading HBS 2012 Alum ‘Goes Rogue’, Quits his Job at BCG to Make a Film About Climate Change

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated”: The RLGC HBS Fashion Show

By Emily Dohse The Harbus columnist Emily Dohse had front row seats at the RLGC’s 7th Annual Charity Fashion Show. Here is what you missed or (if you went to the afterparty) don’t remember. When Oscar Wilde said, “You can never be overdressed or overeducated,” he had probably just attended the HBS fashion show. On… Continue reading “You can never be overdressed or overeducated”: The RLGC HBS Fashion Show

After publicly blasting L’Oreal’s recruitment efforts, Jessica Assaf finds supporters all over the school – and world

Managing Editor Steve Hind follows up with RC Jessica Assaf, whose brutal reply to a recruitment email went viral earlier this month. On the cover of the last edition of The Harbus, we heard from RC Jessica Assaf, who received a recruiting email from L’Oreal and posted her scathing response online. Two weeks, thousands of… Continue reading After publicly blasting L’Oreal’s recruitment efforts, Jessica Assaf finds supporters all over the school – and world

Success at the Energy Symposium 2014

The Energy Symposium 2014, hosted by the HBS Energy & Environment Club, was held on the Harvard Business School campus this past Saturday, October 18th. The event was a tremendous success and has sparked engaging conversations about the pivotal challenges the world faces in regards to energy and the environment. The Twitter World was tweeting… Continue reading Success at the Energy Symposium 2014

Dear Graduates: You Can Have A Happy, Healthy Career

I had the privilege of participating in a career day event a couple of weeks ago at The Academy of Enterprise and Finance in Long Island, NY. This is a high school with a focus on providing students with a challenging academic, business, and technology program. I was so impressed with the questions the students… Continue reading Dear Graduates: You Can Have A Happy, Healthy Career

Can You Be a Rockstar Product Manager?

As Marc Andreessen said: “Software is eating the world.” With more and more businesses moving online, there’s an ever-growing demand for talented designers and developers to design and build the best products. There’s also a critical need for solid product managers (PMs) to determine what products and features to build. Product management has become that… Continue reading Can You Be a Rockstar Product Manager?

HBS tops the list of B-Schools for Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business School has been ranked as the top business school for budding entrepreneurs. With an increasing number of startups by current students and recent graduates, it was only a matter of time before HBS was recognized for its efforts in promoting entrepreneurship. According to a ranking by Poets&Quants, Harvard Business School, with 34 startups, and… Continue reading HBS tops the list of B-Schools for Entrepreneurship

Trendy International: A Passion for Fashion

I have always been interested in products and consumers. A couple of years after starting my career at BCG, I spent some time on a Leave-of‐Absence at Australian retailer Oroton, where I was lucky enough to have gained a really well-rounded perspective of the whole retail value chain. I was heavily involved in Oroton’s entry… Continue reading Trendy International: A Passion for Fashion

The Rich Port

Daniel Selikowitz, like Rosalia in West Side Story, wants to go back to San Juan.  As an Australian booking a trip to Puerto Rico, my expectations were laughably clichéd. It’ll be wall-to-wall Cancun-esque resorts, I figured, packed with passport-less mainlanders looking for an easy vacation, a pool and some seaside casino gambling. Man, was I… Continue reading The Rich Port

Facebook moves back to Cambridge.

Finally, Facebook comes home. Nine years after the social networking site launched in Cambridge, MA, it announced plans to install a new engineering center in Kendall Square, just two T stops off the red line from Harvard Square. According to a story posted on the Crimson, Ryan Mack, an infrastructure engineer who contributed to the development… Continue reading Facebook moves back to Cambridge.

AN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIR: HBS GLOBAL NETWORKING NIGHT

Washington, DC – October 23rd, 2013 The Harvard Business Society is set to throw one of its largest unprecedented events in its history with “HBS Global Networking Night.” On a single night, in cities around the world, HBS Alumni will gather for an evening of drinks, socializing, and most importantly— networking. HBS’ Global Networking Night… Continue reading AN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIR: HBS GLOBAL NETWORKING NIGHT

HBS Strong: Our Campus Responds to the Boston Marathon Bombings

    Feature image provided by Elsa Sze. To see more of Elsa’ Msg4Boston photo project, visit www.facebook.com/msg4boston. For over 100 years, Patriots’ Day has been a fixture of Boston culture, a clapping, cheering, cow-bell ringing celebration between the runners of the Boston Marathon and the 26.2 miles of spectators cheering them the whole way.… Continue reading HBS Strong: Our Campus Responds to the Boston Marathon Bombings

Morocco’s Development Story: Opportunities and Challenges

Morocco has attracted tourists for decades with its dramatic landscapes, bustling medinas, and camel trek adventures into the Sahara. It is now drawing the attention for another reason: foreign investment. The same conditions that made tourism one of the country’s fastest growing economic sectors – proximity to Europe, improved infrastructure, and political stability – are… Continue reading Morocco’s Development Story: Opportunities and Challenges