Each year, Harvard Business School hosts two Admitted Students Weekends (“ASW”). I was fortunate to be part of the first round this year. Dear Admittees, It was wonderful to meet you! I hope you enjoyed your time on campus and our practice discussion on the Sequoia Capital case. I wanted to follow up. Congratulations on
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Note to My VCPE Students: ‘The Days Feel Long, but the Years Feel Short’
Hello, VCPE-1! Thank you for an amazing week in the course. Your prep, energy, and creativity were quite evident to our class guests. Simply put, they were impressed! Now that we’ve had a chance to get to know each other, I wanted to write about our classroom norms and grading. Simply put: at HBS, grades
Five Charts that Matter
Every year, most Americans experience a pay cut. Just an hour outside of Boston, where I sometimes fly fish, I drive through very poor, rural, and white towns. I drive by trailer parks, through small towns with almost no economic activity, and into areas with high heroin addiction rates. To better understand what is happening in
‘Known and Loved’ and Tony Jarvis
If you’re a parent of ‘tweens or teens, I strongly recommend this book: With Love and Prayers. Frankly, I’ve read it three times. I get something new from it each time. Tony Jarvis is the author, and he has decades of experience working with students. He currently teaches at the Yale Divinity School, and for 30