#harvard-business-school

#harvard-business-school

"For the creator, it signals legitimacy. For the institution, it signals that they're engaged with where attention and influencers actually live today," says Shana Davis, founder of influencer marketing agency Ponte Firm.

This article was produced by Harvard Business School Working Knowledge and features the insights of faculty member Suraj Srinivasan.

The median base salary for HBS's 2025 graduates rose to $184,500, up from $175,000 the year before. Of the 65% of the class seeking employment, 90% received at least one job offer within three months of graduation, and 84% accepted-both improvements from the classes of 2024 and 2023. Data from PayScale, analyzed by Poets & Quants, estimates the median lifetime income of an HBS graduate at over $8.5 million.