The Harbus

RC year felt like one of those Homo sapiens diagrams pasted on the walls of middle school science classrooms. At first, we crawled, and then we stumble-walked, and then we ran. Now it's April, and our time as RCs is ending. This year, for me at least, has been one of becoming. Career interrupted, granted the space and time, I worked to begin becoming the things I had been meaning to be—one of which was an entrepreneur.

The case of Smiljan Radić, Eduardo Castillo, Alejandro Aravena, and Chile An Unexpected Journey to South America When I was 23, I was studying architecture in Lisbon. At the time, the standard path for final-year students was to spend a year abroad. The coveted destinations were overwhelmingly European—mostly Switzerland and Italy—which made perfect sense. Those countries sat at the center of the architectural discussion in Europe and the canon we had inherited.

Some parting thoughts on sports and the future of the “Student-Athlete” Barring something unforeseen, this will be my last piece for The Harbus. And while the work I’ve done here certainly hasn’t been as intellectually thought-provoking as that of my counterparts, my hope is that it served a valuable purpose—further humanizing our friends and classmates by highlighting their individual journeys in and around the sports they love.

Folu Ogunyeye (MBA '27) on the starkly stratified future of education, learning and reskilling A few weeks ago, I sat in on a fireside chat with the CEO of Coursera, hosted by the HBS Education Club and the Harvard Project on Workforce. He knew his numbers: fifteen learners enroll in an AI course on Coursera every minute. If the world were 100 people, 59 of them will need retraining by 2030, according to the World Economic Forum.

Why liberal arts education is infrastructure—and why we are rating it wrong A staggering seventy percent of Americans now believe higher education in the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction. Confidence in universities has nearly halved in a decade. Affordability has been the loudest complaint, but it is not the most cited one.

Michelle Yu (MBA ‘26) on what political correctness costs the people it was meant to protect My father has worked in finance for as long as I can remember. I grew up overhearing his phone calls, absorbing his stories, and learning early on that the industry had its own register: direct, irreverent, and unbothered by the occasional remark that lands wrong but gets laughed off and forgotten.

Jake Goodman (MBA ‘26) shares the sappy thoughts of the HBS sign I am still SIGN. Another year of cold black legs. Cannot blink. Emblazoned HARVARD space BUSINESS space SCHOOL. No matter the time pass, still must announce myself, this place. My head, a head of metal, has a bald, bulky emblem or crest type thingy instead of hair. Hair I see on the other students. On sign, which is ME, I have good crest. My crest has floppy books with cool old stuff printed on them. VE (red space) RI (red space) TAS.

Probably more often—because men have biological clocks, too For all the talk of reproduction, the burden of foresight still lands, reflexively, on women. At Harvard Business School, egg freezing and the specter of female fertility hover over panels, career-planning sessions, and the gaps between classes. Sperm, by contrast, floats free of scrutiny, buoyed by a persistent cultural myth: that male fertility is durable, renewable, and effectively infinite.

How Luminate is building the data infrastructure for the future of entertainment Luminate sits at the center of some of the entertainment industry’s most important questions: what should be measured, how it should be measured, and what happens when the old metrics stop being enough.

How Weverse is redefining fan engagement According to Goldman Sachs, one in five music listeners in the US is considered a “superfan” of at least one artist.These superfans are estimated to add $6.6B to the music industry’s revenues by 2035, which represents a 21% uplift to paid streaming revenues. Compared to average music fans, superfans spend more on live entertainment, merch and experiences. Their importance, however, surpasses mere economic value.