About The Harbus
Quality news, where you want it, when you want it.
The Harbus is committed to providing quality news to our readership. Founded in 1937, we have been a leading source of news for the Harvard Business School community for over 80 years. Our team of student journalists is dedicated to bringing you the latest news and insights on business, economics, and more. We strive to deliver the news you want, where and when you want it.
Who we are
The Harbus News Corporation is a non-profit self-funded news organization of Harvard Business School run by students. This organization is a publisher of The Harbus, a publication that has brought free news to the Harvard community since 1937. Today it is available both in print and online. Historically, The Harbus has been funding The Harbus Foundation, which provides grant awards and consulting services to organizations promoting education, literacy, and journalism across the Boston metropolitan area.
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The Harbus News Corporation’s publications include:
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The Harbus print newspaper
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The book 65 Successful HBS Application Essays
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Recruiting Guide for 1st year students
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Elective Curriculum Course Selection Guide for 2nd year students
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The Harbus newspaper includes interviews with CEOs, features on HBS companies from startups to established corporations, perspectives on pressing issues worldwide, as well as various content provided by the HBS community. The Harbus is distributed free of charge to members of the Harvard Business School community. Readers include Harvard faculty, staff, students, alumni, as well as other affiliates worldwide. Subscriptions are available for purchase for those outside of the HBS community.
Our Team
Editor-in-Chief
Michelle Yu
Michelle Yu (MBA ‘26) is passionate about all things media, with experience in business news, documentary film, broadcast journalism, and television. She graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Film and Media Studies and worked for CNBC, NBC News, and CNN prior to HBS, along with projects for HBO, Showtime, Oxygen, and Spectrum.
Editor, Entreprenership
Chuck Isgar
Chuck Isgar (MBA ’25) loves all things startups. He created and runs Above Board, a weekly newsletter which features Q&A's about startup investment, board management, and corporate governance. Most recently, he served as the Chief of Staff at Scenery, a Series A-stage startup. Chuck previously co-founded and was the CEO of Intern From Home, a recruiting technology company that served students from over 600 colleges. Chuck was a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University and earned his bachelor’s from Brown University.
Editor, Industry Insights & Travel
Abhiram Karuppur
Prior to joining HBS, Abhiram Karuppur (MBA '25) worked in Houston, TX at Ara Partners, a private equity fund focused on energy transition and decarbonization technologies. A New Jersey native, he graduated with a B.S.E. in Chemical & Biological Engineering from Princeton University in 2019. Outside of class, you can find him biking around Boston’s many trails, dominating (sometimes) at pub trivia, or trying out the local food scene.
Editor, Satire
Alex Mazzaferro
Alex Mazzaferro (MBA ’25) is from Chicago. He graduated from the University of Alabama in 2019. Prior to HBS, he worked in strategy and corporate venture capital.
Editor, Women's Leadership & Entrepreneurship
Regina Gomez
Regina Gomez (MBA ’25) was born and raised in Mexico City, Mexico. She graduated from Tecnológico de Monterrey with a degree in Economics. Prior to HBS she worked at Mastercard and an early-stage fintech as a Global Strategy and Operations Manager specializing in the payments industry.
Editor, Arts & Leisure
Danielle Mitalipov
Danielle Mitalipov (MBA '25) is an RC interested in scaling climate technology and renewable energy generation. She is a Student Sustainability Associate (SSA), and helped organize the HBS Climate Symposium. Prior to HBS, she studied philosophy at Stanford University, and led merchandising for a global brand at adidas. Outside of school, she is usually writing or watching the latest release at the Coolidge Corner Theater.
Editor, Between Two Classes
Jay Bhandari
Jay Bhandari (MBA ’25) is originally from Houston, Texas. He graduated from Georgetown University in 2018 with a degree in Economics. Prior to the HBS MBA, Jay worked at thredUP in San Francisco and at Blackstone in New York.
Editor, Between Two Classes
Peter Sykes
Peter Sykes (MBA ’26) is originally from Calgary, Canada. He graduated from Georgetown University in 2015 with a degree in Economics. Prior to HBS, Peter worked in strategic ops at Reservoir Media, an independent music company in New York, and for Morgan Stanley.
Editor, Women's Leadership
Tyler Confoy
Tyler Confoy (MBA '26) grew up between North Carolina and Florida, and studied journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. She has spent the last several years working in TV Production and sustainability in New York City, most notably for HBO/Max shows. Prior to her TV career she worked in magazine journalism.
Editor, Industry Insights
Meredith Nolan
Meredith Nolan (MBA ’26) is originally from outside of Washington, D.C. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a BS degree in Commerce in 2020. Prior to the HBS MBA, Meredith worked in private equity in San Francisco on TPG’s Consumer team.
Editor, Industry Insights
Santi Gil
Santiago Gil (MBA '26) is originally from Mexico City. He graduated from Tecnológico de Monterrey with a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering. Before HBS, he worked in venture capital at IGNIA and investment banking at a boutique firm in Mexico City.
Editor, Crossword
Maya Biswas
Maya Biswas (MBA ‘25) is from Bedford, Massachusetts and graduated from Cornell University in 2018 with a degree in Biology. Prior to HBS she worked at a biotech company in Cambridge.
Editor, Crossword
Delaney Burns
Delaney Burns (MS/MBA ‘25) is originally from the Scituate, Massachusetts. She graduated from MIT with degrees in Chemical Engineering and Biology. Prior to HBS, Delaney worked at McKinsey & Company in their Life Sciences practice.
Editor, Community
Jake Goodman
Jake Goodman (MBA ’26) is originally from Davie, Florida. He graduated from Brown University with an honors degree in English and Economics in 2019. Prior to HBS, Jake worked in corporate development, strategic finance, and retail strategy and operations at Gopuff, a rapid convenience app, in Miami, and for Barclays in New York City. He is an avid banjo and guitar player and misses the Florida sun dearly.
Editor, Sports
John Mahoney
John Mahoney (MBA ’26) is a native of West Des Moines, Iowa. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2021 with a degree in Finance. While in college, he was a walk-on defensive back for the Fighting Irish and wrote a book about his experience, titled History Through The Headsets. Prior to coming to HBS, John worked in consulting and strategy in Minneapolis and Chicago.
Editor, Community
Ramya Vijayram
Ramya Vijayram (MBA '26) is originally from Chennai, India. She graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Biotechnology. Prior to the Harvard MBA, Ramya worked at Warburg Pincus in Mumbai, India, and McKinsey and Co. in India.
Editor, Politics
Tim Ford
Tim Ford (MBA ’25) is originally from New Jersey. He graduated from the University of Virginia with degrees in Commerce and Spanish, and completed an M.Phil. in Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. Prior to the HBS MBA, Tim worked in growth equity at TPG in San Francisco.
Editor, Entrepreneurship
Edouard Lyndt
Edouard Lyndt (MBA ’25) is from Australia. An example of someone who took the ‘jack-of-all-trades’ thing too far, he has explored a range of career paths spanning M&A, strategy, product management, and even (very briefly) professional fighting. Outside of work, he enjoys reading, cooking, and exercise.
Photographer
Nikole Naloy
Nikole Naloy (MBA ’26) is originally from Brooklyn, NY. She graduated from Harvard University in 2021 with a degree in art history and economics. Prior to HBS, Nikole worked as an investment banking analyst at The Sage Group in Los Angeles and in strategy for TikTok in New York.
Photographer
Sam Berube
Sam Berube (MBA ’25) is originally from Dover, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brown University with an honors degree in International & Comparative Political Science in 2019. Prior to his matriculation at HBS, Sam worked in corporate strategy at the McDonald's Corporation in Chicago, and for BCG in Boston. He is also an avid landscape and wildlife photographer.