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

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

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 :

How Disney became the protagonist of five courses, six frameworks, and an entire degree. After exposing the Buffett Conspiracy ™ last semester, in which I revealed that Warren Buffett is either secretly the lead MBA course head or an AI model built by HBS, I swore I was done with institutional whistleblowing. Surely, I thought, there could be no greater mystery lurking in the bowels of Aldrich Hall. I was wrong. This semester, I’ve noticed something even more pervasive, more

Is the disappearance of my sense of humor a sign that the EC year is but a pale encore of the RC? It’s Saturday afternoon. I’m already a...

Jake Goodman (MBA ‘26) shares his musings as the leaves turn. The Madness Going on At Berry Line I am writing this letter to the Harvard...

The Harbus discovers a case that was never, ever getting published… until now. On the evening of August 26, 2025, singer-songwriter...

I think I finally understand the hype around American summers that the media has for so long presented to me: fleeting romances, coming-of-age summers, and escapist vacations (i.e. summer romances in Europe).

Jake Goodman (MBA ‘26) shares his musings from an empty Spangler.

Proof that sometimes, the biggest case study is your lunch.

Jake Goodman (MBA ‘26) shares the sappy thoughts of the HBS sign. I am SIGN. Cold black legs. Cannot blink. Emblazoned HARVARD space...

From personal shopper to financial overlord: AI’s retail takeover. Online shopping used to serve as a comforting refuge where people...

Work-life balance is real at HBS. Work-life balance is the golden land. It is constantly pursued, but like a strong MBA job market, it...

A cross-platform journey to uncover how iMessage came to rule America’s messaging hierarchy. I. The Global Messaging Divide We live in...

How HBS became a school of storytelling, ambiguity, and unlimited +1s. It all started last Thursday when a professor cold-called a...

Why every HBS case mentions Warren Buffett — even when it shouldn’t. There are few universal truths at Harvard Business School. Cold...

Jake Goodman (MBA ’26) shares his worry that everything is becoming a case. “That could be a case,” I muttered, almost involuntarily, as...

On learning finance through the case method. As I sit down to write, I am reminded of my initial wariness in proposing this topic –...

It is an impossible undertaking. Your friends have invited you to a FUN OUTDOOR ACTIVITY. You have packed your VARIOUS BELONGINGS. You...

The app HBS needs for last-minute tickets. And indeed there will be time To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?” Time to turn back and...