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…
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…
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…
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…
By Kevin Sharer Senior Lecturer and former Amgen CEO Kevin Sharer shares his advice on letting someone go. Have you ever had to fire someone? My hunch is that for many of you, the answer is no. But it is almost certain someday and perhaps sooner than you imagine you will need to deliver…
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…
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…
When people think of Haiti nowadays, most think of one event that happened just over four years ago. Many do not realize the rich and painful history of this Caribbean nation. Over two hundred years after becoming the first black nation in the world to gain independence from colonialists, Haiti is turning a new page….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Newton would be amazed. You will be… Anticipation is a dangerous thing. We’ve all been through the “Oh my God it’s going to be so unbelievably awesome” and then been hit in the face with Star Wars: Episode 1, or The Matrix: Reloaded (maybe it’s the colons, I dunno). In general, the more you’re itching…
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…
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….
A few weeks ago I patronized the Harpoon Brewery with all intentions of touring the establishment and receiving a fine beer education. I took the MBTA Silver Line and happily discovered Harpoon just along the water’s edge. However, I couldn’t enter the building due to the line of folks winding out the door and into…
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…
You know the drill. You’ve got visitors in town and they want you to give them the “full Boston tour.” They want clam chowder and Red Sox gear and a Tom Brady sighting. You know that you’ve got cases to read and interviews to prep for and no desire to repeat a walk along the…