The school year is starting to wind down, but the student newspapers are still holding strong, bringing current students and other readers all the news from campus. Today let’s check in on the happenings at Harvard and Cornell, as featured in the Harbus and the Cornell Business, respectively.
At Harvard, students had a plethora of exciting speakers to choose from over the last few weeks. First, consultant and motivational speaker Anthony Robbins spoke to a packed auditorium on the topic of decisions and destiny as part of the Public Speaking Club’s Outstanding Speaker Series. One student reported that the audience was “fired up” by the end of the talk, perhaps in part due to Robbins’s gift of a free coaching session to all HBS students. Also on Harvard’s campus recently, groundbreaking social psychologist Phillip Zimbardo spoke on his book The Lucifer Effect, which brings together decades of research on how situational effects can bring good people to do evil things. On a very different note, HBS also hosted the 3rd Annual Retail and Luxury Goods Conference recently, an event that brought almost 300 students and industry leaders together for a day of intense conversation on the managerial issues in the industry. In social news, it appears that one HBS student enjoyed her birthday outing to the Boston Celtics so much that she wanted to share it with her entire class – really. After attending a great game in early April, this second year student arranged a 50% discount for any HBS student who wanted to buy tickets for the last home game of the season. It appears that even when having fun, the networks you build at business school really do come in handy!
At Cornell, the theme of the Cornell Business seems to be traveling – a staff member from the Career Management Center recounts her experiences sailing around the world as part of the Semester at Sea program, while students in several groups made the trip to New York City for some exciting career opportunities. To begin, first-year students in this semester’s Brand Immersion program took the first of their two trips to New York. While there, the group met with numerous companies, including Amex, Bayer, Y&R, and Lippincott Mercer, picking up plenty of insights into brand management – as well as some free stuff! The Fashion, Luxury and Lifestyle Club also had a successful New York outing, hosting the club’s first-ever Round Table Luncheon. The event allowed students to meet with executives from companies such as Revlon, Chanel, Lucky Brand Jeans, and Kenneth Cole and to ask them questions in a relaxed setting. Other Cornell MBA students traveled a bit farther afield, with groups going to Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area as part of the Career Management Center’s “Just About Jobs” interview program. These Just About Jobs events are designed to help students connect with companies outside of Cornell’s immediate region, and have been quite successful at generating full-time and internship offers for participants since their inception five years ago.
That’s the news for this week! Check back next week for more on the speakers, stresses, and social events generating buzz on MBA campuses.
