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 :

In the age of AI, the world belongs to the builders. In 2011, Marc Andreessen wrote that “software is eating the world.” 14 years later, that line feels less like a prediction and more like a prologue, the opening chapter of a story that was only beginning to unfold. Software never finished eating the world. AI simply arrived with two forks and a much bigger appetite. We are now in the early innings of a technological revolution: an era where agents write code, AI absorbs ent

After a long night of too many drinks of Founders Mindset and Essays by Paul Graham, I woke up with the following question: for what are early-stage VC firms really looking? LinkedIn is overflowing with posts insisting that you must have everything figured out before you build anything: a clearly defined problem, a big enough market, the perfect team, a plan to scale fast, metrics proving your solution works, a moat to defend it, a sustainable business model, an efficient di

A Christian response to wealth fixation. Harvard Business School has a money problem. Unlike the 99.99999% of humans throughout history, HBS grads will have far more money than they need for daily survival over the course of their careers. This change in circumstances, though far better in many respects, also means we are susceptible to an unhealthy fascination with riches. Before I lose any more readers, I want to assuage your fears: this is not an article critiquing wealth

What do we say about our pop-culture stereotype as heartless mercenaries, and also to the mirror? While prowling through Spangler after hours late one evening a few weeks ago, I saw a poster for an SAS-organized talk that made me pause: “Building and Maintaining Relationships at HBS,” a panel by EC students sharing insights on how to make “authentic and meaningful friendships” at HBS. The dystopic idea that a group of late twenty-somethings needed to be taught how to make fri

Where HBS stands on today’s most hotly debated policy questions. As we began to wrap up the semester, we wanted to understand where the HBS community stands on a series of “not-so-partisan but still controversial” public-policy questions that frequently surface during discussions but rarely get measured in any systematic way. To capture that pulse, this anonymous survey was distributed to the Class of 2026 and Class of 2027 and remained open from November 18 to November 27. A

To the editor: As the Executive Director of HBS Online and Executive Education at HBS, I feel it’s important to respond to the views expressed by The Harbus News Staff in the editorial titled The Prestige Paradox of HBS Online, published on 11/05. I care deeply about the long-term value of the Harvard Business School brand not only because I’m leading these non-degree programs, but also because I am a graduate of HBS (MBA ’99). While the editorial raises important questions a

The 2018 Harvard-Yale game at Fenway Park, courtesy of The Harvard Crimson A primer for this year’s new-and-improved version of the Harvard-Yale football game. In college football’s infancy, there was perhaps no more important game than “The Game,” held annually between Harvard and Yale. Since the matchup began in 1875, its winner has gone on to claim an NCAA-recognized National Championship no fewer than 20 times. And though the last of these occurrences came nearly 100 year