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One Year After the Election: Why Ideological Diversity Still Matters
A reflection on political balance, intellectual humility, and what true diversity means for leadership. What Election Night Taught Us On November 5, 2024, when the United States elected its next president, HBS students gathered in Klarman Hall to watch the results and in Aldrich 112 for the first-ever HBS Student Bipartisan Policy Debate. One year into a new administration, and with half the campus in its first year at HBS, it is worth asking what we have learned. Perhaps the
Edward Doan
3 days ago3 min read
The MBA Romance is Dead
No, my scientifically researched conclusion is unrelated to the fact I am single. When I started speaking to people for this article, I think they assumed that this would be a piece of investigative journalism and that, after turning up all the cobblestones on Spangler Lawn and searching every nook in Aldrich, I would emerge with the equivalent of a Victorian book on etiquette for courting at HBS. That is not so. This, at its heart, is personal. I started writing this article
Ramya Vijayram
3 days ago14 min read
Cross the Bridge
Aerial view of campus during the Dedication ceremonies on June 4, 1927, courtesy of Baker Library Historical Collections Our education is...
Surbhi Bharadwaj
Oct 14 min read
Lessons from the Lab
From scientist to founder, Jessica Schwabach (MBA ‘27) shares what five years in food tech taught her about building, scaling, and starting again. When Jessica Schwabach (MBA ‘27) signed up for UC Berkeley’s “Alternative Meats Lab” on a whim, she never imagined it would become the thesis, then the company, then the exit, that defined the first chapter of her entrepreneurship journey. What began as genuine curiosity about why plant-based meats tended to taste dry evolved into
Katerina Gan
3 days ago5 min read
“That Outreach Thing”
Discovering I didn’t need the perfect idea — just a real one.
Manuel Oliveira
Jun 95 min read
Founder Launch: Redefining Entrepreneurship at HBS
“All of you are talented, but not a single one of you knows how to close.”
Jay Bhandari
May 1914 min read
Mickey Mouse’s MBA
How Disney became the protagonist of five courses, six frameworks, and an entire degree. After exposing the Buffett Conspiracy ™ last semester, in which I revealed that Warren Buffett is either secretly the lead MBA course head or an AI model built by HBS, I swore I was done with institutional whistleblowing. Surely, I thought, there could be no greater mystery lurking in the bowels of Aldrich Hall. I was wrong. This semester, I’ve noticed something even more pervasive, more
Michelle Yu
3 days ago5 min read
The Summer I Learned Many Things about B2B SaaS from Softball
I think I finally understand the hype around American summers that the media has for so long presented to me: fleeting romances, coming-of-age summers, and escapist vacations (i.e. summer romances in Europe).
Ramya Vijayram
Sep 96 min read
What I Should Have Done This Summer
Jake Goodman (MBA ‘26) shares his musings from an empty Spangler.
Jake Goodman
Sep 93 min read
On Venezuelan War & Peace
Reflection, politics and confessions. Reflection In War & Peace, we study significant conflicts of the past to better understand the present with the hopes of informing current decision-making at best or having a fascinating discussion while learning history at worst. This is a class where you can quote Guns of August and Prisoners of Geography at nauseam and in equal proportions. I love it. We began — appropriately — with definitions of strategy , war , leadership , and pe
The Harbus News Staff
3 days ago7 min read
What Business is For
It has signed a social contract that cannot be undone.
Alex Qi
Sep 96 min read
The Broken Market for Small Business Sales
Why Main Street is being left behind in M&A.
Edouard Lyndt
Sep 93 min read
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