HBS students rely on iPhones to organize their life, track appointments during the day and remain connected to news and email at all times - but have you ever considered how an iPhone could be used to serve patients and reunite families in a post-disaster environment like Haiti? Arriving in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic three days after the Haiti earthquake, Seth Moulton (NB) joined a team of two Harvard-affiliated physicians as part of an Operational Medicine Institute (OMI) mission. (0) comments
For just $35, you'll get a 40-page PDF that includes 12 pages of real interview questions from real interviews of real students along with question-by-question analysis from current HBS students! (21) comments
The SA Proudly Announces the Class Day 2010 Keynote Speaker: Sir Ronald Cohen, Co-Founder and Former Chairman of Apax Partners and Chairman of The Portland Trust and Bridges Ventures Sir Ronald Cohen is a founder of the private-equity industry in Europe and one of the world's leading private-equity investors. (6) comments
I learned a lot about prospecting and persistence in my process of finding a business to buy. Following the now popular HBS "zip" code theory of career location, I drew a 50-mile radius around my home in the Boston area for a geographic search. After purchasing a directory of companies in that area, I narrowed down the prospects to businesses that I had some familiarity with from earlier in my career. (1) comment
As an entrepreneur you always hope that your venture is touching the lives of others in a positive way. But when Mick Hagen started Zinch.com with a vision to give high-school kids a chance to be "more than a test score in their college applications" he never dreamed of helping so many. (0) comments
HBS runs an essay competition each spring for graduating ECs asking them "what will you do with your one wild and precious life?" It was a project created by a graduate in 2002 based on a line of the poem The Summer Day by Mary Oliver. The deadline to submit a response is March 8 (that's today, if you grab each new issue of The Harbus the day it is released), and, in my opinion, it is a question all students should attempt to answer before they emerge from the bubble. (0) comments
The land of glaciers and volcanoes, geysers and waterfalls. The land of black beaches and hot springs, year-round swimming and midnight golf. A land where nature's beauty abounds in its purest, natural, most unadulterated form. The country with the second highest life expectancy and one of the highest standards of living in the world. (0) comments
This column is co-written with my esteemed colleague and sectionmate Renny McPherson. After a turbulent Hell Week, we both began to see clear connections between the job search and finding a mate at HBS. "If she hasn't called me back by 8 p.m., is that a bad thing?" Beginning after President's Day, 950 Harvard Business School students began a week-long quest to find summer employment. (0) comments
The pertinent question is: even as immediate rescue efforts wane and Haiti fades from the headlines, how will we ensure that this tragedy becomes a turning point for Haiti's development - an opportunity to "build back better," in President Clinton's words - rather than just another setback for the hemisphere's poorest country? Since the devastating earthquake in Port-au-Prince on January 12, there has been a great deal of interest in how to best provide relief to Haiti. (0) comments
For the second straight year, the HBS Blades (11 Wins-1 Loss) found themselves in the final of the Tuck Ice Hockey Tournament in Hanover, New Hampshire. But this year, the Blades were the ones hoisting the Tuck Cup to the rafters. The Tuck team got a quick start scoring two goals in the first five minutes. (0) comments
This is the third in a series of articles following EC Kelly Carson's quest to run her first marathon through the Dana Farber Marathon Challenge. The past few weeks have passed by in a blur - run, study, class, eat, hang out with friends, sleep, repeat… and suddenly, there are only six weeks left until the Boston Marathon. (0) comments