Last week, Pride Month came to an end. Harvard’s content for the month involved two Twitter takeovers highlighting LGBTQ+ tech icons and a list of our recommended educational content. Resharing previous articles from our employees, as well as a new blog on ‘Why Coming Out Should be a Thing of the Past’. Our final piece of content is our eleventh episode of Heard@Harvard, which we’ve purposely waited until after Pride Month to go live with. Why? Because we want conversations around LGBTQ+ rights, representation issues and inclusion in the workplace to happen all year round and not just during t ..read more

In our tenth episode of Heard@Harvard, we had a brilliant conversation with Elizabeth Bananuka, Founder of The Blueprint and BME PR Pro’s. We kicked the conversation off by uncovering Elizabeth’s career and how it sent her on the journey to grow her own organisations. This ultimately led us to discuss the issues within the comms industry and the key to keeping up momentum when it comes to honest conversations within the workplace. At the start of the year, we were extremely proud to have been awarded Ally status from The Blueprint. As previously mentioned, this was the start of our journey and ..read more

In our fifth episode of Heard @ Harvard, Louie and I had the absolute pleasure to sit down with two members of the Harvard team - Efe Otokiti, an Editorial Manager and Amira Williams, who is an Account Executive. This episode was focused on race in the workplace and had a small twist - not only did we come armed with questions, so did Efe and Amira. We started off by discussing both their individual experiences of race in the workplace, followed by the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement and how this has accelerated change. We also talked about why there is underrepresentation of Black p ..read more

For our fourth episode of Heard @ Harvard, we had a conversation with Baroness Joanna Shields OBE, who is both the CEO of BenevolentAI and Founder of WeProtect. In this episode, we spoke with Baroness Shields about a range of issues we’re facing in the world today; from her experience in the tech industry – and her disillusionment with it – to tech for good and her role at Benevolent AI and founding WePROTECT and the work she has done there. We cover her career all the way to the much-anticipated US elections and what the world holds tomorrow, a must-listen for anyone interesting in the way th ..read more

For our third episode of Heard @ Harvard, we caught up with ex-Harvard team member, Ruby Aryiku. Ruby was a brilliant Account Executive here at Harvard before leaving to co-found her own agency - VAMP - where she is now Head of PR. Ruby and her business partners recognised back in 2017 that the growing YouTube and Influencer industry was incredibly whitewashed, creating a false reality that there weren’t talented and entertaining content creators of colour in the UK suitable for campaigns. VAMP’s mission is to be a platform for talented, black content creators in the UK. In this episode, Ruby ..read more

I’m pleased to say that the second episode of our podcast is available now for you to listen to or download. After interviewing the global COO of MediaCom and chair of the PRCA’s diversity network in episode one, this time round we’ve spoken to someone from within Harvard. Pete Marcus is our group planning director and has been with the agency for nearly a decade. After starting his career in consumer and corporate PR, Pete’s role has evolved and he’s been running our Planning team for the past few years, helping develop insights and strategies for our clients that make their communications sh ..read more

Welcome to Episode 1 of Heard @ Harvard, our brand new podcast series designed to explore the theme of ‘creating lasting change.’ Throughout the series we will be talking to people right at the heart of both the agency world and the tech sector. In our inaugural episode we are joined by Josh Krichefski, Global COO at MediaCom and Rax Lakhani, Chair of the PRCA's Diversity Network. We hear their thoughts on running teams and agencies during the COVID pandemic; mental health in the agency world and diversity – and particularly what agencies in both PR and advertising need to be doing better ..read more

In episode 3 of the Heard @ Harvard podcast, Ellie & Louie chat to CEO Dean Forbes. Here we gain crucial insights - including Dean's lessons on leadership and how he thinks the tech market will look as we head into a recession. This one is not to be missed!  ..read more

Description: In our first video Heard @ Harvard podcast, we talk to comedian, Tik Tok influencer and content guru, Rob Mayhew about influence, agency life, nostalgia and comedy in marketing and PR ..read more

Welcome back to Heard @ Harvard's second season. For the first episode of this season, we are joined by Bodacious founder and self-proclaimed Web 3 optimist, Zoe Scaman, Louie and guest-host Jessie get to grips with decentralisation vs centralisation, the NFT marketing fad and the importance of materiality when it comes to metaversal worlds ..read more