About The Harbus
Mission
For over 80 years, The Harbus has served as Harvard Business School's student-run newspaper. Since our founding in 1937, we have strived to provide quality news that informs, educates, and provokes thought on campus.
About
The Harbus News Corporation is an independent, self-funded non-profit news organization run by students. We publish The Harbus, a publication that brings free news to the Harvard community available both in print and online.
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Distributed free of charge to members of the Harvard Business School community, The Harbus includes interviews with CEOs, features on HBS companies from startups to established corporations, perspectives on pressing issues worldwide, as well as various content by the HBS community. Readers include Harvard faculty, staff, students, alumni, as well as other affiliates worldwide.
Team
Editor-in-Chief
Alex Qi
Alex Qi (MBA '27) is from Irvine, California. He studied philosophy, politics, and physics at New York University. Prior to HBS, he worked in corporate strategy and M&A at Northrop Grumman in Virginia.
Chief Executive Officer
Pranav Bharadwaj
Pranav Bharadwaj (MBA '27) is from London, UK. He studied Economics & Management at the University of Oxford before beginning his career in consulting at OC&C. He then moved into healthcare operations, most recently serving as Head of Strategy & Operations at Cera, one of Europe’s fastest-growing health tech companies. He is passionate about health policy, economics, and the role of technology in transforming public services.
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Michelle Yu
Michelle Yu (MBA '26) is originally from Cresskill, New Jersey. 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. Outside of work, she is a 2x marathon runner, American Songwriting Awards winner, and filmmaker whose work has screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and AMC's Empire Theaters in Times Square.
Editor, Entrepreneurship
Katerina Gan
Katerina Gan (MBA '27) is originally from Riverside, California. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in Economics. Prior to HBS, she worked at Linden Capital Partners, a healthcare private equity firm based in Chicago.
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, 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, Humor & Satire
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, Arts & Entertainment
Folu Ogunyeye
Folu Ogunyeye (MBA '27) grew up in Milton Keynes in the UK. She graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in Human, Social and Political Sciences. Prior to HBS, Folu worked in HR at BlackRock in Atlanta and in social impact consulting in New York and London. Beyond work, Folu loves to write, explore art galleries or catch a live jazz gig.
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
Palak Raheja
Palak Raheja (MBA '26) is originally from Lucknow, India. She graduated from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi, with degrees in Statistics and Economics. Prior to HBS, she worked at Bain India, and in the Indian consumer and health-tech start-up ecosystem. In her free time, she can be found reading, running, or watching movies.
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.
Photographer
Hoyt Gong
Hoyt Gong (MBA '27) is from Los Angeles, California. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in computational biology and economics. Prior to HBS, Hoyt worked as a product manager at Sequel Med Tech, a medical device and digital health startup, and for BCG in San Francisco. He enjoys kombucha, street photography, and drones.
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.
Board of Advisors
Trevor Fetter
Trevor Fetter is a Senior Lecturer and Henry B. Arthur Fellow at Harvard Business School, where he has taught since 2019, focusing on MBA courses in financial reporting, leadership, and corporate accountability. A graduate of Stanford and HBS, he began his career in investment banking before holding senior leadership roles at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Tenet Healthcare, where he served as CFO and later CEO, growing the company into a $20 billion enterprise and launching major healthcare businesses like Conifer Health Solutions and United Surgical Partners International. He also founded Broadlane, a successful healthcare supply chain company. Since retiring from Tenet in 2017, Fetter has remained active as a corporate director, investor, and advisor, serving on boards of major companies and nonprofit organizations. Recognized as a top corporate director by the Wall Street Journal, he is also engaged in philanthropic efforts and shares community involvement with his wife, Melissa Fetter, with whom he received a humanitarian award in 2017.
Allison Murphy
Allison Murphy is the Chief Operating Officer at Axios, where she leads operations and helps scale the company’s fast-growing digital media and local journalism initiatives. A Harvard Business School graduate, she is a digital media executive with a strong focus on product strategy, innovation, and organizational transformation, known for building high-performing teams. Prior to Axios, she held senior leadership roles at The New York Times across product, ad innovation, and commercial operations, and also worked at Capital One in fraud prevention. Earlier in her career, she was a consultant at The Bridgespan Group. Murphy is actively engaged in shaping the future of journalism, particularly through the use of AI to expand high-quality local news, and is recognized as a forward-thinking leader in the evolving media landscape.
Gabriel Handel
Assistant Dean for Administrative and Educational Affairs at Harvard Business School, where he focuses on school-wide strategy, planning, and cross-functional initiatives, working closely with leaders across HBS and Harvard University to drive major projects and institutional priorities. His responsibilities span strategic and financial planning, technology and campus development, major events, community engagement, and alumni relations. He also plays key governance roles across multiple Harvard initiatives, including the Harvard Innovation Lab and Advanced Leadership Initiative, and serves on various boards and committees related to technology, policy, and academic programs. Handel has been instrumental in key efforts such as digital transformation initiatives, campus planning, the launch of the D^3 Institute, and leading aspects of the school’s COVID-19 response.