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Currency Crisis
A Christian response to wealth fixation. Harvard Business School has a money problem. Unlike the 99.99999% of humans throughout history, HBS grads will have far more money than they need for daily survival over the course of their careers. This change in circumstances, though far better in many respects, also means we are susceptible to an unhealthy fascination with riches. Before I lose any more readers, I want to assuage your fears: this is not an article critiquing wealth
Brian Rath
1 day ago6 min read
In Defense of the MBA Student
What do we say about our pop-culture stereotype as heartless mercenaries, and also to the mirror? While prowling through Spangler after hours late one evening a few weeks ago, I saw a poster for an SAS-organized talk that made me pause: “Building and Maintaining Relationships at HBS,” a panel by EC students sharing insights on how to make “authentic and meaningful friendships” at HBS. The dystopic idea that a group of late twenty-somethings needed to be taught how to make fri
Ramya Vijayram
1 day ago11 min read
Not So Partisan But Still Controversial
Where HBS stands on today’s most hotly debated policy questions. As we began to wrap up the semester, we wanted to understand where the HBS community stands on a series of “not-so-partisan but still controversial” public-policy questions that frequently surface during discussions but rarely get measured in any systematic way. To capture that pulse, this anonymous survey was distributed to the Class of 2026 and Class of 2027 and remained open from November 18 to November 27. A
Valerie Chen
1 day ago6 min read
It's Time to Build
In the age of AI, the world belongs to the builders. In 2011, Marc Andreessen wrote that “software is eating the world.” 14 years later, that line feels less like a prediction and more like a prologue, the opening chapter of a story that was only beginning to unfold. Software never finished eating the world. AI simply arrived with two forks and a much bigger appetite. We are now in the early innings of a technological revolution: an era where agents write code, AI absorbs ent
Eric Menser
1 day ago5 min read
Founder's Mindset Hangover
After a long night of too many drinks of Founders Mindset and Essays by Paul Graham, I woke up with the following question: for what are early-stage VC firms really looking? LinkedIn is overflowing with posts insisting that you must have everything figured out before you build anything: a clearly defined problem, a big enough market, the perfect team, a plan to scale fast, metrics proving your solution works, a moat to defend it, a sustainable business model, an efficient di
Cristián Richard
1 day ago6 min read
Lessons from the Lab
From scientist to founder, Jessica Schwabach (MBA ‘27) shares what five years in food tech taught her about building, scaling, and starting again. When Jessica Schwabach (MBA ‘27) signed up for UC Berkeley’s “Alternative Meats Lab” on a whim, she never imagined it would become the thesis, then the company, then the exit, that defined the first chapter of her entrepreneurship journey. What began as genuine curiosity about why plant-based meats tended to taste dry evolved into
Katerina Gan
Nov 55 min read
Passion Isn't Sharp
Jake Goodman (MBA ‘26) shares his musings as the leaves turn. Oh boy, by golly, deck the halls, it’s time to pontificate. I’m ready to make the argument that you don’t need to have passion for your career path. First, I will chart the history of career passion as a modern bourgeois phenomenon driven by the entanglement of the means of production with a consumerism that is obsessed with seeing the worker in the things consumed. Second, I will write a series of paragraphs that
Jake Goodman
1 day ago4 min read
The Official Guide to Shad Fashion
As HBS students, we know how to dress for interviews and parties. But in the halls of Shad, our fashion instincts are tested. How do you project effortless cool and Fortune 500 CEO potential with workout clothes? For context, I was diagnosed as fashionably challenged at age 10 (please clap) after wearing Velcro sneakers with flashing lights to the rec-center dance. Since then, I’ve sought to better understand my disability by observing the fashionably gifted. After years of
Stud Berman
1 day ago4 min read
An HBS Discussion Group Breaks Up
It’s not you. It’s all of us. Member 1 : Hey. Member 2 : Hi. Member 3 : Hello. Member 4 : I’m sorry for being late. I overslept. Should we start with FIN 1 today? Member 5 : Sorry I was also late. I was pitching my AI startup to a VC in London, and the call went over because we were riffing on API infrastructure. Member 6 : Me, too. Not the call part, but the remorse part. I was thinking hard about the best way to put this. Here goes. I can’t come to these anymore. Member 3 :
Vicky Liu
1 day ago2 min read
The Great Holiday Innovation Race
How CPG brands launch, test, and learn in real time. Every December, grocery aisles and online carts transform into test markets disguised as celebrations. Shelves fill with limited-edition packaging, seasonal flavors, and giftable product bundles all designed not only to capture holiday excitement but to generate priceless data. For consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, the holidays are no longer just the biggest sales moment of the year; they are a strategic laboratory f
Charisma Glassman
1 day ago5 min read
Renewing America’s Belief in Capitalism
Opportunity begins when children have agency abundance. This year, the Cato Institute and YouGov found that 62% of Americans under 30 view socialism favorably. Less than a decade ago, that figure was nearly 20 percentage points lower at 43% . The median age of a first-time homebuyer today is 40 years old . A current total of $1.8 trillion in student debt has expanded balance sheets more than opportunity. “Affordability,” the political buzzword of 2025, is emblematic of our
Nina Qin
1 day ago4 min read
Will Generalists Triumph in an AI World?
Many of you have likely come across David Epstein’s Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World . Epstein argues that, in an era that rewards adaptability, breadth of thought, and cross-domain synthesis, generalists often find creative solutions that specialists might overlook. But in a world increasingly shaped by AI, where specialized models outperform humans in narrow domains, and expertise can be outsourced to algorithms, what happens to the generalist edge? Thi
Palak Raheja
1 day ago5 min read
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