Kendall Herbst

Well, I’ve graduated from business school. Call me a master of business administration! I wanted to spend a few minutes looking back on my two years at MIT Sloan and pulling out some takeaways for any of you considering applying to business school or matriculating this fall. I wrote my first Business Casual column in August 2011. I said that, “I wanted to write this column because some fashion friends have expressed an interest in swallowing the grad school pill themselves and tumbling down this crazy rabbit hole.” Now on the other side of the rabbit hole, here’s what I would tell future students...

Last we spoke, I was living in Cambridge, MA working on StyleUp between my MIT Sloan classes. Now, I’m in Mountain View, CA working StyleUp full-time. It’s amazing and crazy and daunting and strange and wonderful. Recently, my co-founder and I even raised a little bit of investment capital which makes me feel like I’m just starting to make it as an entrepreneur. There is a very long road ahead, but I thought it might be useful to hear a few things I’ve learned so far.

Kendall is a former fashion editor who has written for NYmag.com, Lucky, InStyle, and NBC. She recently scrapped that glamorous life and is pursuing a