Your first term immerses you in the Required Curriculum, FIELD, and section life, while offering time for reflection before formal recruiting begins.
- Find out your section assignment
- Registration
- Welcome and START program
- Attend Surviving and Thriving Together at HBS session with partners
- Student moms meet with Support Services team to plan activities and support
- Get acquainted with MBA Support Services
- Student Association (SA) social events
- Attend student club events
- Partner registration and orientation
- Pick up course materials
- Get Inside the Case Method
- Learn and practice the case method
- Read about HBS faculty in the news
- Develop community identity (w/discussion group, section, first- and second-year students)
- Meet your section (social events, retreat weekend)
- Enjoy Term 1 classes (FRC, Marketing, LEAD, TOM, Fin1) and start the year-long FIELD course
- First exams
- First break!
- Learn about and run for section and SA leadership positions
- MBA liaison available to newly elected student reps (and all year!)
- Read the Community Values Fall Report
- Attend conferences
- Write HBS Fellowship thank-yous
- Take time to reflect on your career (do self-assessment, join a career team, get career coaching)
- Participate in Industry Weeks
- Evaluate work authorization options with Harvard International Office
- Participate in career treks
- Attend a Career Fair
- Prepare your resume
- Attend company presentations and events
- Consider the HBS Leadership Fellows Program
Focus: Classmates & Faculty
Videos
Faculty in the News
Are You Sleeping With Your Smartphone? Leslie Perlow HBR Blogs May 22, 2012
Predictable Time Off: The Team Solution To Overcoming Constant Work Connection Leslie Perlow Fast Company May 21, 2012
How To Get A Celebrity Endorsement From The Queen Of England Nancy Koehn NPR May 21, 2012
Speaking out against the marriage amendment William George Minneapolis Star-Tribune May 19, 2012
Good versus Bad, Rethinking Business Leadership Nitin Nohria Forbes - India May 16, 2012
