Recruiting

Franci Girard’s (MBA 2016) journey to launching The Sixes, a fashion brand designed specifically for tall women, may have started way back in elementary school, but the road to launching the business took many twists and turns. [...]

Startups are exciting to HBS MBA students for many reasons: Opportunity for impact, exposure to multiple functions, and practicing skills they are learning at HBS. But, why should a startup hire an HBS MBA? [...]

HBS alumnae and faculty weigh in on what it would take to close venture capital’s long-standing gender gap. [...]

Walking into Harvard Business School as friends, roommates, and colleagues in 2017, Henri Pierre-Jacques (MBA 2019) and Jarrid Tingle (MBA 2019) already knew each other well. What they didn’t know yet was how their angel syndicate, Harlem Capital, would grow, evolve, and change the face of entrepreneurship and investing over the next two years and beyond. [...]

In a snapshot of the PresenceLearning leadership team taken this spring, CEO Kate Eberle Walker (MBA 2005) stands, smiling, just right of center. She’s flanked by three other women and four men—the gender-balanced C-suite she had been determined to build when she took the reins of the online special-education company in early 2019. “You have to be very deliberate and proactive to achieve this,” says Eberle Walker, who set and accomplished the same goal in a previous CEO role. “But it is important. Business needs gender diversity.” [...]