Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu (MBA 2021) came to HBS as an accomplished professional, having spent seven years driving impactful projects at GE Healthcare in Ghana. As she looked ahead to the next stage of her career, she felt a desire to explore a new industry, with a goal of future senior leadership. While she didn’t know it yet, Nyantekyi-Owusu’s goals aligned perfectly with a company that has a significant footprint around the world even if they are not a household name, American Tower. [...]

Anne-Marie Schoonbeek (MBA 2017) and Heleen van Poecke (MBA 2017), grew up in small towns in the Netherlands fifteen minutes apart from one another. Yet in all those years, their paths never crossed. Instead, over 3,000 miles away from home, Harvard Business School brought the two cofounders together. [...]

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. [...]

The “Know Your Audience” series on the HBS Recruiting Blog highlights trends in recruiting for various industries. Student interest in the technology sector remains high with 20% of students accepting jobs joining technology companies after graduation. Cathy Hutchinson and Molly DeCastro work closely with technology companies as they develop and execute their recruiting strategy at Harvard Business School. Get to know this experienced team as your key partners in recruiting for technology at HBS. [...]

As part of my recruiting, I was able to meet on campus with Conor Walsh, Duolingo PM and HBS ‘18. Conor gave me context on what it was like to work at Duolingo as well as on the role of a PM on a day-to-day basis. This help was particularly useful because I had never worked in tech or in a PM role - I had previously worked in strategy and design consulting, but I really wanted to explore actually applying insights to change a real, live product. Over the summer, I got to do that and much more. [...]