As a former consultant at EY-Parthenon, part of Chicago native and Northwestern University graduate Tayler Danziger’s (MBA 2020) job included travelling all over the U.S. and Europe, advising clients on growth strategy. Little did she know then, this experience would be the perfect prerequisite for not only graduate school at HBS—but also a summer 2019 retail strategy internship with Ford- and Amazon-backed electric car startup, Rivian Automotive. [...]

It all started with a smell. Taylor Wiegele and Sierra Smith (both MBA 2017) met with a group of classmates for their FIELD III course, trying to come up with a problem to fix. The course, now an elective, tasks first-year students with creating a product to start their own venture. When a group member – don’t worry, they won’t reveal who – took off her shoes, they knew they had found their problem to solve. [...]

Internships by design are just ten to twelve weeks, but the impact that HBS students can make in that time can influence an organizations’ success long-term. Learn about the projects that students worked on at Hubspot, Indigo Ag and Wayfair that generated real-time results and made a lasting impact. [...]

The recruiting process among companies and candidates can resemble a two-way talent competition in which all parties serve simultaneously as contestants and judges: just as candidates strive to present themselves in the best possible light, companies eager to attract and retain the best talent want to assert their most attractive qualities to discriminating job seekers. [...]

Jasmyn Beausejour, MBA 2019, describes his summer at Wayfair. As a native from Montreal and having worked in management consulting, Jasmyn was excited by the opportunity to analyze Wayfair’s expansion and segmentation into the Canadian market. His role pivoted from being a consultant on this project, to a data scientist where he was able to learn to code in R and utilize SQL and Tableau to strengthen his strategic analysis and data skillset. Learn how Wayfair worked with Jasmyn to ensure his work would have a significant impact on both the organization and his own professional development. [...]