The First-Year Experience

CrossFit really does prepare you for anything!

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Sunrise yoga on Spangler Lawn

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Yacht party!

01-30 Sep 2014

A Look Back at September

From kayaking on the Charles River, to catching a Red Sox game at Fenway Park, RC life is buzzing!

Philip Blackett Hearing from @HarvardHBS profs Bill Sahlman, Jan Rivkin and @MichaelEPorter in one afternoon? One word: AMAZING!

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GATSBY PARTY!!

FUN AND GAMES AT THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENT UNION RETREAT IN CAPE COD!

#LifeatHBS #nofilter

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THAT TIME SECTION I WAS DRAFTED TO THE RED SOX

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IN BUSINESS SCHOOL WE BUILD CIRCUIT BOARDS

08 Sep 2014

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.

09-10 Sep 2014

FIELD FOUNDATIONS: Communication, Voice & Self-Awareness

Through a series of interactive workshops, first-year students explore and practice interpersonal skills essential to effective leadership. Team feedback and self-reflection during FIELD Foundations helps students deepen their emotional intelligence and develop a growing awareness of their leadership style.

09 Sep 2014

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.

01-31 Oct 2014

A Look Back at October

From Head of the Charles to Halloween costumes, first-year students keep the fun alive in the midst of midterms and late-night study sessions.

Alex Yergin My friend @yinlang11 explains her innovative startup Potluck Energy @mitenergy @HBSEnergyClub #lifeatHBS

MBAs (and spectators) take time to enjoy the weather and tennis #LifeatHBS #HBSCampus

Thanks to @meghana for sharing HBS2016 Section J (and their mascot Jolly) showing support for National Coming Out Day

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Getting ready for Head of the Charles regatta! #lifeathbs #hbs #boston

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Homework with a view. #Boston #lifeathbs

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"#Halloween #lifeathbs #classes

01 Oct 2014

Field GLOBAL IMMERSION Global Dinner

Over 900 RCs discover where they're headed on their FIELD Global Immersion and play a round of trivia with their newly formed global team. FIELD Global Immersion sends students into global markets around the world, requiring them to develop a new product or service concept for global partner organizations.

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Jeremy Watson The wait is over. I'm headed to Mumbai for FIELD 2!!!

Allison Rae Schoeneck Excited to go to Cambodia in January!!!

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Moments before the big reveal...

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We are going to India!

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The best team... To Kuala Lumpur!

07 Oct 2014

Autumn Festival

Candied apples, hot cider, carved pumpkins – oh my! New England fall is in full swing on Spangler Lawn as students enjoy the sights and tastes of the iconic season.

11-12 Oct 2014

RC Section Retreat

From Cape Cod to Maine, the annual tradition of section retreats gives RCs a chance to get to know one another outside the classroom.

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LEGENDARY GAME OF MAFIA WITH SECTION I. AMAZING WKD IN NH.

AMAZING VIEW FROM BRETTON WOODS

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SUMMER CAMP IS BETTER WHEN IT'S FREEZING. AND WHEN YOU'RE AN ADULT.

23-24 Oct 2014

Dash Days

In preparation for their global immersion, FIELD 2 teams participate in a challenging, team-based exercise called the Product Development Dash (DASH). By practicing Design Thinking, a structured approach to meeting unmet customer needs, first-year students develop a product or service for the US market similar to what their Global Partner will require come January.

DASH day - experiment with design thinking process to create the next IT detergent. Newly found love with post-its and customer interviews! #lifeathbs

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01-30 Nov 2014

A Look Back At November

From rubbing shoulders with CEOs, to taking treks to New York City, first-year students take advantage of all that the MBA program has to offer.

Sparsh Agarwal Fantastic class with CEO of Tag Heuer. You gotta find what you love. Thanks @ryaniraffaelli #inspired #LifeatHBS

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That's my section y'all! RC Flag Football Champs!! #lifeathbs #sectionb

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New England fall #colors #fall #hbs #lifeathbs

TOM Professor dressed up and made a surprised appearance in Marketing class #fengtastic #sectiong2016 #lifeathbs

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With the CEO of Chobani, Hamdi Ulukaya #lifeatHBS

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My Classmates. Much Respect. Thank YOU! #lifeathbs #veteransday

Trivia night! Just realized that our team came from 5 different countries and industries #sectiong2016 #lifeathbs

maiteburbano

[G]s at Harvard-Yale #goharvard #beatYale #lifeatHBS

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#thanksgiving #brunch #sectionJ #hbs #lifeathbs

Art Society at HBS We visited the Sotheby's contemporary art gallery in New York this weekend as part of our Art Trek. #LifeatHBS

03 Nov 2014

Flag Ceremony

An annual tradition, first-year students hang flags that represent their home country in Aldrich classrooms. With classmates from all around the world, you never know who you'll be sitting next to!

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This is what happened on flag hanging day. We hung flags representing friends in the section while they expressed their national pride #lifeathbs #sectionG2016

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01-31 Dec 2014

A Look Back At December

The semester draws to a close for first-year students, complete with final classes, exams and a chance to celebrate at Holidazzle, an annual holiday party for the entire student body in downtown Boston. In addition, in light of unfortunate news events, students organized a candlelight vigil and discussed experiences with racial profiling.

MBA students celebrated the start of the holiday season with #Holidazzle this past weekend at the @westin Hotel in #Boston #lifeatHBS

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My clicue

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Great moment when the whole section lined up to hug our amazing LEAD prof Paul McKinnon in our last class #LifeatHBS

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Last day of classes! Cant believe it went by so quick! #HBS #lifeatHBS #SectionC #skydeck

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One more final means only one more night spent like this. #study #lifeathbs

neil_dubs

Thank you to my amazing friends for sharing their stories and helping us #MakeADifference at #HBS by opening a dialogue! #LifeAtHBS

Meaghan Fitzgerald Got all glammed up last night for the #Holidazzle ball, but fairy tale ends with finance final Monday... #LifeAtHBS

Marissa Henry Listening to the experiences of @PhilipBlackett and more at the HBS Mike Brown / Eric Garner vigil #LifeAtHBS

03-13 Jan 2015

FIELD GLOBAL IMMERSION

As a complement to the case-study method that has encouraged 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 DASH Days, students travel to global markets and work with their Global Partner. Over a period of eight days, they interview potential customers, refine their ideas, and present their conclusions to their Global Partner.

One team of first-year HBS students looks back on their FIELD 2 Global Immersion experience in January 2015. The team spent eight days working on a project with Whirlpool in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Exploring Berber culture in the Sahara Desert #HBSFIELD #LifeAtHBS

Before starting work with The Entrepreneurs Edge, @sebastianparot took time with group members to visit the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia #HBSFIELD #regram #LifeatHBS

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Riding a bike for the first time...in the crazy streets of Hue, Vietnam. #StillAlive #ImASurvivor #LifeAtHBS

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Fully immersing ourselves in our company's products. #lifeathbs #HBSFIELD #satiskin

Primary school students give @megfitz86 and her #HBSFIELD team a lesson about the culture of Beijing in the Hutongs. #LifeatHBS #regram

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#lifeathbs #saopaulo #adios

Team P&G prototyping in Casablanca -- thanks for the photos @running_around! #regram #HBSFIELD #LifeatHBS

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An unconventional final presentation. Our recommendation was to raise awareness of the ballet through a social media challenge. Naturally, we were asked to start it. Here's the start of the #joburgballetpirouettechallenge #joburgballet #hbsfield #feedyoursoul

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Me and the formula e. They sound like remote control cars. #arglife #lifeathbs

Atima Lui Survived 3 days and 3 nights living in the Sahara! Rode a camel, climbed sand dunes, learned how to wear and wrap turbans, lived in tents, traveled the Atlas Mountains, ate tajines, drank gallons of Moroccan tea, danced to drums and Arabic music at bonfires under the stars, roamed Berber villages, and bartered with a nomadic woman by trading my food for her crafts. My comfort zone and world view has definitely been expanded! #grateful #HBSFIELD

26 Jan - 28 Feb 2015

LET IT SNOW!

Campus was transformed this winter into a snow-lovers paradise with a record-breaking 110 inches, and RCs soaked up every moment of it!

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@kbarasch and other MBAs took advantage of #Blizzard2015 by getting outside during their #snowday #LifeatHBS

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Snow day at baker! @HarvardHBS #lifeathbs

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Case readers & protagonists staring out of windows

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Don't let that sun fool you, it feels like -5 right now. #lifeathbs #notfoolinganyone

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Today I took my Field 3 group to the Media Lab where we first had our minds completely blown and then debriefed in a two story igloo. #lifeatHBS #hbjess #snowfort

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Yes, that used to be a bench... that ppl could actually sit on. lol #lifeatHBS

Sparsh Agarwal Making the best out of a snow day due to #Juno. #LifeatHBS

28 Jan - 28 Feb 2015

A LOOK BACK AT TERM START

Just back from a whirlwind FIELD Global Immersion, RCs delve into second semester. From Aldrich classrooms and student club conferences, to forming what could be their next big entrepreneurial venture, students find there’s never a dull moment.

Jan Rivkin killing it in STRAT class. #lifeathbs

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More snapshots from #NYTrek: breakfast @LearnVest, wonderful @etsy office and q&a with @refinery29 founders! Feeling #grateful #lifeathbs

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One of the best conferences I have ever attended in Harvard: Biohacking Conference #lifeatHBS