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The Last Place I Expected to Wrestle with God
Michelle Yu (MBA ‘26) on faith, ambition, and power in business school When I was five years old, my mother found me shivering and naked in an empty bathtub, crying so hard that my small body seemed to fold in on itself. I had drained the water myself and sat there long enough for the cold porcelain to leave my skin blotchy and numb. My mother, with my two-year-old sister clinging to her leg and newborn sister squirming in her arms, knelt down and asked me what was wrong. Thr
Michelle Yu
Feb 55 min read
Currency Crisis
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
Brian Rath
Dec 3, 20256 min read
In Defense of the MBA Student
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
Ramya Vijayram
Dec 3, 202511 min read
Into the Void
How Founders Find Technical Support at HBS
Kiera Klinsky
Feb 54 min read
It's Time to Build
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
Eric Menser
Dec 3, 20255 min read
Founder's Mindset Hangover
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
Cristián Richard
Dec 3, 20256 min read
Winter Travel: IFC Edition
Combining the joys of education and the wonders of travel to get a secret-third thing
Ramya Vijayram
Feb 46 min read
Passion Isn't Sharp
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
Jake Goodman
Dec 3, 20254 min read
The Official Guide to Shad Fashion
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
Stud Berman
Dec 3, 20254 min read
The Great Holiday Innovation Race
How CPG brands launch, test, and learn in real time. Every December, grocery aisles and online carts transform into test markets disguised as celebrations. Shelves fill with limited-edition packaging, seasonal flavors, and giftable product bundles all designed not only to capture holiday excitement but to generate priceless data. For consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, the holidays are no longer just the biggest sales moment of the year; they are a strategic laboratory f
Charisma Glassman
Dec 3, 20255 min read
Renewing America’s Belief in Capitalism
Opportunity begins when children have agency abundance. This year, the Cato Institute and YouGov found that 62% of Americans under 30 view socialism favorably. Less than a decade ago, that figure was nearly 20 percentage points lower at 43% . The median age of a first-time homebuyer today is 40 years old . A current total of $1.8 trillion in student debt has expanded balance sheets more than opportunity. “Affordability,” the political buzzword of 2025, is emblematic of our
Nina Qin
Dec 3, 20254 min read
Will Generalists Triumph in an AI World?
Many of you have likely come across David Epstein’s Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World . Epstein argues that, in an era that rewards adaptability, breadth of thought, and cross-domain synthesis, generalists often find creative solutions that specialists might overlook. But in a world increasingly shaped by AI, where specialized models outperform humans in narrow domains, and expertise can be outsourced to algorithms, what happens to the generalist edge? Thi
Palak Raheja
Dec 3, 20255 min read
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