True to her word, Harvard Business School (HBS) Dean of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid Dee Leopold recently kicked off a new content series on her Director’s Blog. Each week, she plans to spotlight a different first- or second-year student in the HBS MBA class. Borrowing her format from the New York Times, she provides a brief background on the student as means of introduction and follows with a quick summary of what he or she is doing, reading, watching, following, wearing, eating, dreaming, hearing and planning.
In her debut post, Leopold shines the spotlight on Michael Belkin, a second-year from Silicon Valley who worked for an Israeli high-tech startup in the entertainment space doing IT R&D infrastructure work before heading to business school.
The brief, informal interview is designed to provide a glimpse of a typical day in the life of an HBS MBA student. Leopold plans to check in with a different student each Thursday night and post the spotlights to her Director’s Blog every Friday.
Belkin shares details of his day, ranging from being cold called in class, attending a joint mixer with the LGBT groups across Harvard, enjoying salmon from the Grille in Spangler for dinner, and reading Bill Bryson’s At Home: A Short History of Private Life to wind down before going to bed. He also talks a little about the work he’s been doing on his own startup company (DISTINC.TT), which he began the summer before coming to HBS.
Entertaining, light reading, these posts promise to be a good source for prospective applicants who are considering HBS to get a good feel for student life on campus as well as for the range of personalities that make up the HBS MBA class.
To read Leopold’s debut student spotlight post, click here.
Read the full article: HBS Admissions Director Launches New Student Spotlight Series on Her Blog