Video: Entrepreneurship Powered by Community

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Discover how Harvard Business School empowers aspiring entrepreneurs with unmatched resources like the Rock Center, world-class mentorship, and a vibrant innovation ecosystem.

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Sara Ballantyne (MS/MBA 2025): There’s not a huge community of aerospace engineers in the world, but we managed to find each other here at HBS.

Christina Vosbikian (MBA 2025): I really found my healthcare and life sciences entrepreneurship community between the classroom and the things you’re doing outside the classroom.

Jayden Bryden (MBA 2026): I was drawn into HBS because of the access to amazing faculty, people who had been visionaries in their fields and come back to teach students.

David Cancel, Entrepreneur and Investor: A lot of my friends who were operating and in venture have come and become professors that have created entire new programs within HBS. And so that’s been amazing to see because now you get both the academic case studies, but you get the knowledge from the operators who many of those case studies were written about.

Lisa Yan (MBA 2025): The professors always are willing to connect and help you from their place of expertise.

Archie Jones, Senior Lecturer: I come from working in private equity. There are folks who are in venture capital still working in that today. There are successful founders of organizations. And outside of the classroom, students have access to us as professors individually on their ideas, on their dreams, on their hopes.

Anna Marie Wagner (MBA 2017): Part of the magic of a place like HBS is that you have this incredible safety net already, and it’s creating that foundation for experimentation while also providing just a crazy amount of resources.

Drew Borinstein (MBA 2025): There are cross school collaborations with the engineering school, with the undergrads, with a number of the other schools, The Kennedy School.

Lindsay Hyde (MBA 2014): We have the Rock Center that offers fellowships, funding, entrepreneurs in residence, anything that you might need to build a business, you can find at the Rock Center.

Professor Shikhar Ghosh, Faculty Co-Chair, Rock Center: The summer fellowship that we offer allows students to dip their toes into the water where they’re trying to figure out is the idea that I have actually something that has legs.

Drew Borinstein (MBA 2025): The Rock Center has done a great job of creating community and an entrepreneurial ecosystem on campus and I think that that’s been really valuable.

David Bunn (MD/MBA 2026): The resources like the social enterprise initiative really builds our confidence and know that we’re in a supportive ecosystem that will help foster our success post HBS.

Lindsey Chrismon (MBA 2025): My mentors that I’ve been paired with, they’ve cared so much about the business itself. It’s almost like they’re acting as an additional board member.

Professor Tom Eisenmann, Faculty Chair, Harvard Innovation Labs: The community across your entire MBA cohort and community with a broader set of loyal HBS alumni who are eager to help, that’s the superpower of entrepreneurship at HBS.