Note: all em dashes in this piece are mine and mine alone. HBS’s commitment to perfection permeates the campus experience. Before winter’s first snowflake hits the ground, legions of snow ploughs are ...

The HBS experience has often whimsically been referred to as “life in a bubble,” where we are protected from the outside world for two blissful years of frolic, cross-dressing and networking. An ...

Introduction One day a year, Klarman Hall rivals the hottest clubs in Boston (read: Berryline) in its line of hundreds snaking around campus. As I told Professor Jeffrey Bussgang backstage, students ...

In other words, the perception problem is not primarily a price problem but a purpose one. The deeper issue is that American ...

This Between Two Classes editor came out of retirement for the distinct pleasure of interviewing Mitch Glazier, Chairman and ...

At the RC startup bootcamp info session, the presenter was explaining the program's parameters: well-suited for early prototypes; probably not for, say, "launching a satellite." I (Michelle) had just ...

Where, when, with whom does judgment start? As so often, it is in the company of the dead, of a particular dead. They have lived far enough behind the living as to escape some accusation of bias by ...

A view of a flag emblazoned with the HBS shield, Winter 2025. Image credit: Nicolas Ng (MBA'27) On belonging at Harvard: Trusting Yyur own pace Author's note: Originally written in April 2025 (RC year ...

Editor’s Note: The Harbus is continuing its Leadership series, featuring conversations with leaders across business and society. We sat down with Lila Snyder, CEO of Bose, to discuss her path to the ...

The flowers are passing. White and pink litter the ground so that green can suffuse the sky; in this way we know the end of an era and the opening of another is upon us. Can we know? Every past year, ...

A voluntary hostage situation inside HBS’s most controversial class It’s Wednesday night and I can’t sleep. Tomorrow, I might have to pitch my startup to a live audience at Demo Day, the culmination ...

The true weight of leadership is lost on us. It won’t be felt until we leave this place where, because everybody is a leader, nobody is One of the first lessons of RC is that when HBS optimizes for ...