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Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2025 recipients of its Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships. Established in 1988 by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (MBA 1959), a former director of the foundation and a limited partner at Goldman Sachs, to encourage students from the nonprofit and public sectors to attend HBS, these fellowships enable the School to award $10,000 to a select number of incoming MBA students for each of the two years of the MBA program.

Want to be happier? Ditch pointless meetings, celebrate your progress, and think twice before chasing that corner office, advises Arthur C. Brooks in his book The Happiness Files: Insights on Work and Life.

What’s the path from giving away cars on talk shows to working at Harvard Business School? Ask Media Service’s Shawn Alston—we talked with him about working in television, what brought him to Boston, what he likes to do outside of work, and more.

Upon embarking on their two-year MBA journey at Harvard Business School (HBS), students are divided into “sections”—an approximately 90-student cohort that completes the Required Curriculum (RC), or first year, together. Although designed for the classroom, the section experience quickly turns into something more. It becomes a shared journey—filled with moments, big and small—where classmates become teammates, advocates, and friends.

In this conversation with Chief Community and Culture Officer Terrill Drake, we discuss the Office for Community and Culture's (OCC) new name, their work with the University's Community and Campus Life office, what the team is working on, and more.

For a reality check, I reached out to Alberto Cavallo, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School who used to serve on the BLS’s Technical Advisory Committee. (That committee was eliminated by Trump in March.) In an email, he said that “when it comes to inflation data, any significant tampering would likely be easy to detect by outside researchers.”

“It started to become a huge mess,” said Alberto Cavallo, an Argentine economist teaching at Harvard University who created a website that tracked inflation based on publicly available prices to fill the void left by Indec. Users bombarded him with all sorts of questions over email, like how much to adjust settlement payments to an ex after a divorce. “The examples add up, and you end up realizing how important some of these statistics are,” he said.

Professor Christina Wing joins this episode to unpack why most family offices are structurally flawed—and what to do about it. Christina shares insights from advising dozens of families and training hundreds of HBS students from Gen 1, Gen 2, and beyond.

After President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, economists and statisticians across the board were horrified. Because the firing raises the spectre of potential manipulation—and it raises the worry that, in the future, the numbers won't be as trustworthy. Professor Alberto Cavallo joins this episode to looked at two countries that have some experience with data manipulation. To ask what happens when governments get tempted to cook the books. And...once they cook the books... how hard is it to UN-cook them?