Two for the Price of Two – Tips for married life at HBS

Being married at HBS can be tough – but it can also be a tax-effective two-year honeymoon for you and your significant other. Daniel Selikowitz and Michaela Alhadeff – the Harbus’s resident HBS couple – share their top tips for wedded bliss. From time to time, we hear joking interpretations of the MBA acronym: “Married But Available”; [...]

 
OE's Heather O'Reilly Wins Third Career Gold at Olympics

Heather O’Reilly, of HBS intramural fame, is the wife of Dave Werry (OE). She’s also a three-time gold medalist on the US Olympic women’s soccer team.  HAO, as she is know by her teammates, made the game-changing assist to win the semi-final against Canada.  The Harbus asked Heather to share her incredible summer experience with the [...]

 
Why Harvard Grad School Housing Should Be Smoke Free

In September, my wife and I came home from the hospital with a beautiful baby boy. We were excited, we were happy, and we were exhausted.  But then, we started smelling cigarette smoke in our apartment, and we were shocked. It was seeping through our walls, ceilings, and floors, with an acrid odor strong enough [...]

 
Crimson Kids: Kid Tested, Mother Approved

In early September I attended the first Crimson Kids meeting, which is a club for HBS children, and started to realize there was more to to the partner role on campus. At the Crimson Kids kick-off meeting, a group of energetic parents welcomed me and several other new families and began explaining the many activities and enriching opportunities that would be available for children and parents throughout the year.

 
Solo Summer: Spending the Internship Months Sans Partner

With the semester quickly coming to a close, everyone seems to be gearing up for their summer plans.

 
Peace Love & Pooches: A Startup Guide for Partners

the birth of Peace Love & Pooches – a website where dog owners can list and trade dog services with a trusted network of people in their community. According to the American Pet Products Association, pet industry sales reached $50+billion last year – $4 billion of which was spent on services.

 
Partner Perspective: 1 Down, 3 To Go…A Semester’s Reflection

Since this is the last edition of the Harbus until the New Year, I thought really hard about what to write. I looked through all my iPhone photos, hoping something would jog my memory or light the fire of inspiration. I ended up getting distracted and sucked into those photos, occasionally calling to my husband [...]

Competitive Pumpkin Carving

 Posted by on November 11, 2011  On Campus
Nov 112011
 
Competitive Pumpkin Carving

On the Friday before Halloween, the students, spouses, and children of Section H gathered for their first-annual pumpkin-carving contest.   Fueled by over-sized bags of Halloween candy and cider, the handpicked carving dream-teams chose their tools and their pumpkin.  The competition heated up when it was announced that the winning team would [...]

Nov 092011
 
Halloween at the Dean's House

In a joint effort, the Harvard Crimson Kids Club, Dean Nitin Nohria, and his wife Monica hosted one of the largest and most well-attended Halloween events for Harvard Business School families, despite a few challenges and unreliable weather predictions. At 10 a.m., Monday morning Crimson Kids Committee Chair Vanessa Theurer was watching the weather closely [...]

Partner Perspective

 Posted by on October 20, 2011  On Campus
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Partner Perspective

Have you all adjusted yet? I think I have… I’ve finally memorized what TOM stands for, met some wonderful partners, and discovered that Whole Foods is dangerous to my paycheck. Yeah, I think I’ve settled in here. However, one little thing that continues to be tough about life as a business school [...]

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