On April 7, the HBS Blades Hockey Team was victorious for the first time ever in the McArthur Cup, the world’s largest MBA hockey tournament and a beloved Spring tradition on the HBS campus. Fourteen hockey teams were in attendance from across the continent, including an HBS Alumni team that made it to the B [...]
While most of the student body has been busy over the past several months reading cases, attending Euro parties, and traveling the world, over 80 student members of the HBS Show have been working hard to write, produce, and perform this year’s HBS Show: Mean Girls [& Boys]. The show runs four nights, with section-suggested [...]
On March 8th, we caught up with the CEO of TripAdvisor, Steve Kaufer, who co-founded the company in 2000 after graduating from Harvard College with a degree in Computer Science. Under Kaufer’s leadership, TripAdvisor has grown into the world’s largest travel site, with more than 50 million unique monthly visitors, 20 million members, and over [...]
Join intrepid reporter (and Noted Single Person) Katie Peek as she hunts the big game: JD/MBAs. We gave her $50 and the perfect cover story (HARBUS interview- so innocent!) corralled two unsuspecting joint degrees (Brent Herlihy and Adam Katz) and sent her out into the wild. Read on to see if, 18 months of business [...]
FIELD 3 provides HBS students the opportunity to dabble in entrepreneurship, resulting in numerous clever iPhone applications, unique dating sites, and a proliferation of food delivery concepts. But this year, one team from section H is using its creative talents and $7,500 to tackle a social issue important to the group. Inspired Reading is a [...]
If you have watched or listened to music on YouTube recently then you have already, without knowing it, interacted with an InSITE company. RightsFlow, which Google acquired in 2011 to help manage royalty payments on its popular video site, is just one of a long list of successful start-ups to graduate from InSITE’s program. InSITE, [...]
For this week’s Cold Call, Diane Chang sat down with Entertainment & Media Club Presidents Morgan Kruger (OH) and Chris Schipper (OA) to discuss dream jobs in entertainment, meta zombie movies, and KStew/RPatz dramz. D: Let’s get started with the basics. Give me the background on where you’re from, what you’re interested in… Morgan: My [...]
Chris Sumner (NA) reflects on the rapid rise of Spotify and the winners and losers in the face of this ‘freemium’ innovation. Spotify first appeared in the United States twelve months ago. A small Swedish import with a ‘freemium’ music streaming model and an interesting group of backers (including ex-Napsterer Sean Parker), Spotify was a highly [...]
We’re still a long way from the Academy Awards (Feb. 24), but the race for best picture is starting to take shape. As a reminder, these days the Academy nominates ‘between 5 and 10 films’, allowing it to capture some of the more non-traditional fan-favorites (films like The Dark Knight) without risking watering down the [...]
In the latest installment in our Alumni Interview Series, The Harbus spoke with Alan Horn ’72, who joined Walt Disney Studios as Chairman earlier this year. Horn previously served as President & COO of Warner Bros. Entertainment, where he worked on the eight-film Harry Potter series, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Departed, Million Dollar [...]
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