While students can use limited excused absences for recruiting, the HBS Learning Model (login required) and MBA Honor Code (login required) require all students to consistently engage in class. Daily attendance is expected and required of every MBA student. View the Student Class Attendance & Absence Policy (login required).

HBS expects all students who participate in HBS-coordinated interviews to cancel before the schedules ‘freeze’. After that date, you are expected to honor the interview unless you have already accepted another job offer. Students must notify both CPD and the organization of accepted offers before withdrawing from a scheduled interview. Students who have received an offer are expected to attend all scheduled interviews.

For the Class of 2023 Second-Year Students

Job offers must remain open for a minimum of two weeks from the date the student receives the written offer.

For the Class of 2024 First-Year Students

Job offers must remain open until Friday, February 10, 2023, or two weeks from the date the student receives the written offer, whichever date is later.

For Both Classes

If an organization does not make a written job offer, a verbal offer is considered open in perpetuity. It is permissible to offer incentives to students to accept offers early. The base offer (base salary, guaranteed compensation, job function, and location) must remain open until the decision dates noted above. For former full-time employees (including sponsored students), students and organizations may determine a mutually agreeable decision date.

Reneging up to nine months post-graduation means that you have accepted a job offer, either verbally or in writing, and then change your mind and reject the offer (for any reason). Reneging is an extremely serious recruiting violation and is inconsistent with HBS Community Values.

The consequences of reneging may include some or all of the following for the length of the probation period:

• Loss of CPD and Alumni privileges. This includes the use of your hbs.edu email, access to alumni resources, and reunion attendance.
• Notation of the violation on your academic transcript.

If you are seriously considering reneging, it is imperative that you contact the CPD Managing Director to discuss your situation – before you make your decision. How you handle your decision is critical. We cannot stress enough how seriously HBS considers the violation of reneging. Your actions will impact you, your classmates, HBS alumni, and the HBS reputation.

As with students, HBS expects recruiters to follow policies as they recruit at HBS. If you are concerned with recruiter actions, you may view the Recruiter Policies for further clarification or contact CPD for advice in handling the situation.

In accordance with Harvard University policy, Harvard Business School does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, veteran status, or handicap in admission to, access to, treatment in or employment in its programs and activities. All recruiting activities, including but not limited to job descriptions, communications, events, interviews, questionnaires, and assessments, must be free of bias. Accordingly, the School makes its facilities and resources available to recruiting organizations whose practices are consistent with this policy.