Imagine if your school knew exactly how many times you attempted that impossible trignometry problem and adjusted your next assignment accordingly. Imagine if teachers could create project teams based on precise student strengths, weaknesses, and behaviors. Imagine if your educational experience was as personalized as your Netflix home page. The potential for big data to…
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April 30, 2014
FIGHTING POVERTY USING DATA AND ANALYTICS
Big Data isn’t just helping large corporations improve their bottom lines, but increasingly enabling development organizations and governments across the world fight poverty more effectively. What was once a huge problem in international development – the lack of actionable data – is now turning into an invaluable asset thanks to the increasing amount of information…
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April 1, 2014
THE HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL INVESTMENT CONFERENCE 2014
Purchase Tickets Keynote Speakers Seth Klarman, President and CEO, The Baupost Group, (HBS ’82) Seth A. Klarman. Mr. Klarman is the President and CEO of The Baupost Group, L.L.C., which currently manages approximately $27 billion on behalf of individual and institutional clients. He has had primary responsibility for managing the investments of Baupost since the…
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March 31, 2014
The First Annual Harbus Foundation Gala
The First Annual Harbus Foundation Gala was an enormous success, with over 160 HBS students, faculty and alums joining the celebration as the foundation gave $50,000 to local Boston charities. More pictures below:
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March 24, 2014
Teman & Teran Evans, HGSD Superstar Entrepreneurs
Last Fall, the Harbus got an opportunity to meet and talk with Teman & Teran Evans after hearing them speak at an event at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. They are both HGSD graduates and founders of the DIOSCURI brand. They have worked for star architect, Rem Koolhaas and have been featured in Time…
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March 10, 2014
WSA Doubles Down on Case Protagonists
Are enough female business leaders depicted pondering their next business move in HBS cases? The Women’s Student Association and Dean Nitin Nohria agree: absolutely not. The WSA, HBS’s largest student club, operates with the mission to “prepare HBS women for long-term success and actively foster a campus culture that encourages students of all genders to…
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March 10, 2014
Why the Harbus Foundation Matters
So what’s the deal with this Harbus Foundation Gala? You’ve seen emails from your Service Reps, lots of tweets, and some flyers in Aldrich. But why is this one different from all the other fancy events you have the chance to attend while at HBS? As someone who has lived and breathed this gala for the…
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March 10, 2014
Career Spoke
At the Harbus we try to cater to your every intellectual, emotional, and (dare we say it) spiritual need. Are you still looking for a job? Then fear not, young MBAs. This week we’re rolling out Career Spoke. Like Career Hub, but nimble and zeitgeisty. The Netflix to Career Hub’s Time Warner. Luke Skywalker’s gunship…
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March 10, 2014
Spring Break Ain’t What It Used To Be
With spring break coming up fast, of course the most productive use of these column inches would be to impart some hard-earned learnings to the young, wayward RCs about how to best use their upcoming week off. Spring break as a business school student is very different from the undergrad spring breaks you all may…
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March 10, 2014
OFF THE WALLS
For this month’s column, we had the opportunity to talk with Boston-based photographer Sage Sohier, whose work “Sculptor with Model of Chuck Close in his Summer Studio, Norwalk CT” hangs on the first floor of Shad. Sage’s work has been exhibited at museums such as the MoMA in New York, and the Art Institute of…
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March 10, 2014
Meet the New SA Co-Presidents
By the time the HBS community has returned from its Spring Break hijinks, outgoing SA Presidents Sarah Arora and Jordan Strebeck will have handed the reins to their successors – Linda Li and Nonso Maduka. We sat down with Linda and Nonso to chat about their vision for the coming year, the role of the…
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March 3, 2014
OFF THE WALLS
In this monthly series we will pick a piece from the Schwartz Art Collection to discuss in the hopes of starting conversations about art on campus and beyond. We don’t claim to be experts, just fans of interesting art excited to talk about what we see. VS: For our second installment, we’ve chosen Lino Lago’s…
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February 24, 2014
The Harbus Most Eligible 2014
Who’s the most eligible of them all? We need YOU to decide! Browse our stellar nominees, then use our anonymous survey to vote for the most eligible man and woman at HBS. Voting closes at midnight this Thursday, February 27. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7J2XVTZ The words “Harvard Business School student,” spoken aloud, conjure up a plethora of images…
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February 22, 2014
Heard at today’s WSA conference
Today’s Dynamic Women in Business conference, hosted by the Women Student Association at HBS, continues to be an impressive success. Golden nuggets of advice, quick-witted tips and life-long proverbs speckled thoughtful debate throughout the day. Over 1,000 young and seasoned well-heeled business women power-networked to discuss healthcare, income-equality, marketing, finance, entertainment and media. Here are some…
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February 21, 2014
“What Mr Peabody Can Teach Harvard Business School About The Fifth Epiphany”
This epiphany is a whopper. With the help of Mr Peabody’s time travel skills, our fifth epiphany is from the future. Yes, absolutely from the effen future! In the future we saw, MBAs study this simplified ‘Fifth Epiphany’. In present day August 2015, it is clearly the culmination and sequel to five (5) authors’ lifetime…
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February 4, 2014
Art Basel Trek
On the weekend of 5 December, a few lucky members of the Art Society made their way to Miami for 3 days of the annual Art Society Art Basel Trek. Art Basel Miami Beach is the favorite winter meeting place for the international art world, showing modern and contemporary art from around the world. The…
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February 4, 2014
2014 Healthcare Conference at HBS Tackles Tough Issues in Today’s Healthcare Environment
On Saturday, February 8, 2014, over 700 corporate leaders, medical professionals, academics, and students from around the world will gather on the Harvard Business School campus for the 11th annual Healthcare Conference at HBS. The conference is one of the largest healthcare-focused business conferences in the world, and attendees will gather to engage in meaningful…
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February 4, 2014
OFF THE WALLS
In this monthly series we will discuss a piece from the Schwartz Art Collection in the hopes of starting conversations about art on campus and beyond. We don’t claim to be experts, just fans of interesting art excited to talk about what we see. RBN: For our first piece, we are going to talk about…
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February 4, 2014
How to Get a Job Without Really Trying
Unfortunately, this article is not a critically-acclaimed Broadway musical starring critically-acclaimed actor Daniel Radcliffe – but, much like life here at HBS, this article will be filled with a combination of great learnings and small disappointments. Second on the list of disappointments? The fact that this article came out too late to guide you to…
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February 4, 2014
Twas the night before Date Night
Hey girl hey, I know that our first date is not until tomorrow night but our mutual friend has informed me that you have never dated an HBSer. As such, it is only fair that I alert you to what is in store. First, please do not be alarmed: I am (for the most part)…
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February 4, 2014
Know What You Don’t Know
I hope you enter the new year with enthusiasm, a sense of purpose, a willingness to go outside your comfort zone to grow and learn, and a feeling of real gratitude for the opportunity to be part of the HBS community. Amidst these feelings of optimism and confidence though, there is another thought that might…
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February 4, 2014
Back to “Reality”
There’s nothing better than coming back to Boston and starting another semester at HBS. All your fellow students are bright-eyed and full of enthusiasm (unless you’re in EC), the novelty value of winter has yet to wear off (unless you’re in EC), and you’ve made peace with the fact that you’ll probably be in credit…
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February 4, 2014
FIELD of Dreams
So, another generation of HBS students has made it through FIELD 2. And after soaking up the sun in a variety of Southern Hemisphere hotspots, they’re no doubt relieved to be back here in the icy embrace of Boston’s post-apocalyptic winter wasteland. In January, HBS dispatched RCs to the ends of the earth. Destinations included repeat…
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December 12, 2013
Join HBS DC Alums at one of the most beautiful Ambassador’s Residences in Washington, DC!
When: December 17th (Tuesday) from 6:30pm to 9:30pm What: Cocktail Reception (Swiss wine and Swiss hors d’oeuvres included) HBS Professor Francesca Gino will be presenting her new book: Sidetracked Ambassador of Switzerland Manuel Sager and his wife, Mrs. Christine Sager will host us and present Switzerland current facts Event covered by The…
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December 9, 2013
HBS’s Technology Skill Set Gap
“One of the things about IT is that people want to shed it and make believe it’s not their responsibility. There’s a temptation to outsource it and get rid of it and leave it to the experts to take care of. Business people need to be systems literate.” – Jamie Dimon, Chairman, President, & CEO…
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December 9, 2013
Crowd-funding for impact in Nicaragua
Neural tube defects are a type of devastating and often lethal birth defects that can be prevented when mothers take folic acid before and during early-pregnancy. But neural tube defects arise during the 4th week of development, and with more than half of pregnancies around the world unplanned, folic acid supplements often reach pregnant women…
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December 9, 2013
A View : Contextual Awareness
The current issue of Harvard Business Review contains an article called Focused Leaders written by Daniel Goleman that is worth reading and reflecting upon. Goleman makes the point that most effective leaders cultivate a “triad of awareness” as the editor’s note describes to include oneself, others, and the greater context. Much has been written about…
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December 9, 2013
Thanks, Thanksgiving
Done. Dusted. Plate licked clean. Just as fast as it came along, Thanksgiving now recedes into the past like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s boats against the current. Unnecessary literary allusions aside (and didn’t the Baz Luhrmann version just suck?), not only did it make the stomach ache, it also made the mind think. Being from the…
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December 9, 2013
Raamin Noodles: How to Black Friday
Well folks, November has come and gone, and with it has gone not only the strongest batch of mustaches this campus has seen since the late 1950s, but also that venerable American holiday we know as Thanksgiving. For the somehow-still-confused internationals in the audience, Thanksgiving is the most uniquely American of all holidays because it…
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December 9, 2013
One Western 451
#DrLivingstoneIPresume Flick: My passport just came back with my visa for Field 2. Accra, here I come! Spencer: I’m not sure what problems Ghana currently has, but a hundred RCs roaming around with clipboards is about to become one of them. Andrew: Our Field Partner in Argentina last year asked us to disrupt the laundry…