Photo Credit: Joao Aguiar (@thejoaoaguiar) How persistence, integrity, and rigor shaped a mentor — and my path to HBS. I want to tell you Carlos Moedas’ story, the impact he’s had on me, and why he’s a useful lens as we think about life after HBS. He always told me his life didn’t follow a master plan that he drafted while walking around Aldrich. Rather, it was a series of unforeseen moments during which he had the audacity to believe in something and push past doubt — to rai

Can a divestiture satisfy U.S. national security concerns? Valuations and proposals to allow TikTok continue operations in the U.S. are underway as the platform undergoes negotiations for an estimated multi-billion-dollar divestiture deal. After a three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals handed down a unanimous ruling in December 2024, the court required the social media application to divest from ByteDance or cease operating in the U.S. President Trump granted TikTok t

AI will transform how video games are made. But what about how they’re found? In the world of media, democratization of who makes (creation) and gets to be seen (distribution) has always catalyzed evolution. In the broader conversation of what a future of mature, ubiquitous AI looks like, its impact on video games — a medium consumed by 3.2 billion players worldwide and 78% of U.S. households — is well worth exploring. To forecast the future, it serves us to first analyze th

Humans in the loop, the new liability layer when AI does everything. It was a sweltering night when Arthur’s phone jolted him awake, its sharp buzz cutting through the stillness of his bedroom. Bleary-eyed, he fumbled for the device, the screen’s glare revealing a dire alert: “Critical Service Infrastructure Down — U.S. Region.” His pulse quickened. Flights were grounded, operations stalled, and the reputation of his company, a tech firm serving over two dozen Fortune 100 cli

When Big Sugar bore the arms of empire and why we may, too. We Americans love democracy. Our government has long paid more than lip service to the ideas of Locke and Lincoln. As the world’s foremost republic, we have been — we are — unwilling to acknowledge any imperial kinship with the Empire we divorced. America, nonetheless, shares more than language and a history with Britain. She shares the same lover: big business, who could not get enough of this affair. Companies went

If this market deflates, it could shake pensions, governments, and the very infrastructure of the internet. When the dot-com bubble burst...