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In the traditional sense of the term, the Heartland has referred to any U.S. state that doesn’t touch an ocean. At HBS, the Heartland Club’s focus is even broader. Our focus is on specific regions in the United States that are underrepresented in the HBS student body. From Buffalo, New York to Reno, Nevada, the Heartland has so much to offer, and we want to make sure we have that representation in the student body and in our outreach initiatives. In order to do this, we want to increase exposure to the Heartland in all aspects of student life, inside and outside the classroom. [...]
Josephine (Jo) Tan (MBA 2021) always starts with a pencil sketch, a light grey roadmap of where things are going. Then bold black ink makes it permanent and watercolor paint gives it life. Recently she has added a step—bringing the almost finished product into Photoshop for some magical final adjustments before possibly posting it to her Instagram account; @thisisjotan. It has been a learning process as her illustrations continue to evolve. [...]
Bastian Purrer (MBA 2020), a native German, spent most of his career before HBS launching international offices for Groupon and Rocket Internet. After a few years in Europe and Asia, Bastian enrolled at HBS hoping to continue his entrepreneurial journey. Rather than completing two years straight, Bastian took a gap between RC and EC to launch an e-commerce startup in Indonesia. Upon selling the startup, he plunged himself in the world of fighting against disinformation and started humanID. Shuyao Kong (MBA 2020), a native Chinese, spent most of her career in the tech world across Middle East and Africa. She’s particularly passionate about blockchain, cryptoeconomics, and privacy. humanID is an anonymous Single-Sign-On replacing “Login with Facebook” while also blocking bot-armies and trolls, with the goal to stop fake news and cyber-bullying. [...]
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Harvard’s new MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences joint degree program confers an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Master of Science from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School in the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (SCRB), a Faculty of Arts and Sciences/Harvard Medical School joint department. The program is completed over two academic years, utilizing January terms and time in August at the start of the program. The inaugural cohort started in early August 2020 – here is an update from joint degree faculty on how the program is going so far. [...]
Paxton Maeder-York is a proud member of the MBA class of 2019, Section G. He deferred between his RC and EC years to complete an additional master’s degree in Computational Science. Having studied Biomedical Engineering as an undergraduate and working as a Product Manager at Auris Health building surgical robotics to treat lung cancer, the intersection of medicine and technology was a deep interest of his prior to HBS. He is now the Founder and CEO of Alife Health, which uses machine learning to help assess the healthiest embryo to transfer during IVF. [...]
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