Recruiting

Kenneth Chenault (MBA 2019) and Kevin Chenault (MBA 2021) discuss how they, along with Carter Lewis (MBA 2023) and their Anti-Racism Fund co-founders, transformed a GoFundMe project into a nonprofit organization dedicated to making long-term change. [...]

Neither Jeff Surette (MBA 2010) nor Mike Peters (MBA 2017) expected to be drafted onto a team with Tom Brady after business school. However, the perspectives, experience, and skills they each brought to the table were exactly what Tom Brady was looking for as he and his team grew TB12, the health and wellness company dedicated to helping people do what they love – better and for longer. [...]

When Apoorva Pasricha (MBA 2019) assumed her role with the City of San Jose’s Mayor’s Office of Technology & Innovation as an HBS Leadership Fellow in August 2019, her mandate was to implement San Jose’s ‘Smart City’ road map. Then the coronavirus pandemic struck, and suddenly Pasricha and her colleagues had to reorganize their functional priorities. [...]

Noa Torok, MBA 2019, came to HBS with a blank slate. “I arrived with zero expectations,” she says. “I had no idea what I wanted to do.” Her prior experience had shown her the opposite – what she did not want to do. After studying both law and business management in her home country, Israel, Noa became a successful lawyer working for the Israeli Supreme Court. She had hoped she could combine law and business together, but, “I realized that being a lawyer meant working from the sidelines. And I want to call the shots myself.” [...]

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012, Chloe Ho (MBA 2019) began her post-undergrad career as many people do: in New York working for Morgan Stanley. While there, she served in a strategy and analytics role, working on projects for sales and trading management. However, after four years on the job, she realized that there was something missing—she knew that she needed more to give her career an edge. [...]