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The First-Year Experience

An inside look at student life as it unfolds for RCs.

Aug

START

With a mix of academic and social activities, START gets RCs (first-year students) oriented over two jam-packed days.

Video 25 AUG 2014

Welcome Class of 2018: You Are HBS
Video 25 AUG 2014

Section Reveal
Video 28 AUG 2014

First Day of Class

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8 Reasons the Section Experience is the Best Part About HBS →

Sep

MBA Student Club Fair

From rugby and hospitality, to aerospace and negotiation, there's a club for that. Hundreds of RCs explore all that student clubs have to offer.

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Recap of the 4th Annual Women in Investing Summit →

Sep

FIELD Foundations: Communications, Feedback, and Coaching

Through a series of interactive workshops, first-year students explore and practice interpersonal skills essential to effective leadership.

Sep

MBA Fall Family Fling

Balloons! Cookies! Jungle gyms! What more could a kid (or adult) want? The Fall Family Fling has it all for student families.

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Moving to the U.S. with a Family →

Oct

National Coming Out Day

The HBS LGBT Student Association celebrates National Coming Out Day with activities across campus to share LGBT perspectives and increase the community’s visibility.

11 Oct 2018

9 Coming Out Stories on National Coming Out Day

LGBTSAHBS Community

LGBT

"Today is about celebrating the stories of LGBTQ people. But all of us struggle with parts of our identity that may be different from others. Let’s also make sure we become better allies to each other – because a simple declaration of acceptance, support, and love can truly change someone’s life. It changed mine." [...]

→Read more

Oct

FIELD Global Immersion Locations Revealed

As the capstone to their Required Curriculum (RC), more than 900 first-year MBA students will travel to emerging markets to develop a new product or service for global partner organizations. Find out where in the world they’re headed!

925

First-year students

155

Global partners

Countries

Oct

Customer Interaction Days

First-year students reflect on their experiences during Customer Interaction Days as part of FIELD Global Immersion. In preparation for their overseas assignment, students participate in a challenging, local team-based exercise. By practicing Design Thinking, a structured approach to meeting unmet customer needs, students develop a product or service for the US market similar to what their Global Partner will require come May.

Nov

Veterans Day

09 Nov 2018

Veterans Day Reflections

Cristin BrowneMBA Students

Military, Women

The military is a great equalizer and a true meritocracy: it is a place where you can start with nothing and achieve the highest levels of command as long as you work hard and refuse to quit. [...]

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Jan

LET IT SNOW!

Winter can transform our campus into a snow-lovers' paradise, recently with a record-breaking 110 inches, and RCs soaked up every moment of it!

Jan

Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

SIPS are no-fee, no-credit elective courses for RCs and ECs that offer the opportunity to think about career choices, gain practical skills, and explore topics you might otherwise never get to study. Startup Bootcamp, launched originally for RCs, is still one of the most popular SIPs.

Apr

NEW VENTURE COMPETITION

The student New Venture Competition is a year-long entrepreneurial journey to launch new business and social impact ventures while at HBS. The program culminates with a capstone event in which all participants, including teams comprised of first- and second-year students, present live to top investors and entrepreneurs!

$300,000

Cash plus in-kind prizes

May

FIELD GLOBAL IMMERSION

As a complement to the case-study method that encourages students to think like leaders, Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD) gives students opportunities to translate their ideas into practice. Having worked in small teams and applied the tools of design thinking – customer observation, brainstorming, and prototyping – to develop new products and services during Customer Interaction Days, students travel to global markets and work with their Global Partner. They interview potential customers, refine their ideas, and present their conclusions to their Global Partner.

929

First-year students

157

Global Partners

Countries