Harvard has a secret backdoor. Most applicants have never heard of it. Harvard doesn’t advertise it on its admissions website. There’s no box to check on the Common Application. Yet each year, a small cohort of applicants is offered admission through a different pathway. They don’t enroll with the incoming class. Harvard admits them on
As Harvard Business School seeks to expand its reach, it’s leaning on AI avatars to provide individual feedback. These avatars were created by a startup called HeyGen and are included in the eight-week, $699 HBS Foundry bootcamp for entrepreneurs. The program offers live sessions with instructors every week, but the AI avatars are the ones