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- 13 May 2019
- Blog Post
The Many Facets of Becoming a Mother at HBS
the best one at HBS. Anna Marie Wagner (MBA 2017) Perspective on having a baby at HBS vs. outside of HBS I often joke that HBS was my “two-year maternity leave.” My son Jonathan was born 12 weeks to the day before the first day of RC... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch
Walking around the Cynthiana, Kentucky, manufacturing plant of E.D. Bullard Company, the firm's chairman, Jed Bullard, is in his element. "This is Sandy, she's been here a hundred years," he jokes with a woman affixing decals to hard... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
incredible--obviously--but more importantly, this was when Judy and I learned that we would be going to school together. Judy and I do a lot together. On our last day of work, my boss joked that they would be renaming one of the... View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
from our respective ethnic languages. We all saw each other as one community, absorbing each other’s cultures and customs while throwing jokes at one another. When I first came to the U.S. more than a decade ago for college, it was... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
the first thing that has really shaped me is me falling in love with my wife who was 14 years old when I saw her. I was 16. The minute I saw her, I knew this is the woman I want to marry. And I keep joking with her that she has really... View Details
- Portrait Project
Alison Shin
“This joke only cost me $200,000 to write!” The audience laughed, but I was baffled. I couldn’t understand why my brother, who had recently become a stand-up comedian, would be so willing to tell jokes about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
UNC's “Accidental” Dean
55924f11e238861c488df17b6d091a14 All Steve Jones (MBA ’78) really wanted was a part-time teaching job at his alma mater. Instead, he ended up as dean of UNC Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. “I’m sort of an accidental dean,” he View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Good for Laughs
If there are jokes to be found amid the wave of corporate scandals, they’re usually on the shareholders. But hey, did you hear the one about the overcompensated CEOs? “They found out that making too much money is not nearly as bad as... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
they prayed." HBS's answer to Leno and Letterman, Larry Klein (MBA '80), who fully intends to keep his day job as an investment advisor, has recently packaged that and some two hundred other jokes to help financial professionals add a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- Portrait Project
Debbie Rosenbaum
old. (My parents like to joke that I have not stopped since then.) Couple my Hispanic culture with my Jewish background, and one better understands that for me, communication is about more than just words. It is interactive and dynamic,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Anjali Thakkar
flooded into the patient’s room, and those who couldn’t fit tiptoed in the dimly lit hallway to catch the action. My heart skipped a beat, stunned; I knew him. Last week, he was cracking jokes at my pathetic Spanish. But now, an unnatural... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Start-Up with Giddyup
after stints with Trilogy Software, BCG, and Local Motors. She also served for five years in the Marine Corps (including tours in Iraq and Afghanistan) as a logistics officer, rising to the rank of captain. It's a résumé that Ford jokes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Up Side Story: HBS Show a Sold-Out Success
in love while entertaining the sold-out audience with humor, song, and dance. Each year since 1974, a group of hardworking students has pooled its writing, acting, and production skills to stage a Broadway-style performance that takes advantage of inside View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Stiletto Science
Amalfi brand. “I’ve run a rocket company, I’ve built transatlantic fiber cable,” said Hughes. “But if I go to a cocktail party and say, ‘Oh, I’m a CEO of a rocket company,’ after all the rocket scientist jokes are done, there’s not much... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jacquie Sandberg
navigated – in defiance and despair – our new roles as patient and caretaker – both of us losing ground by my rubric of success. So what could we do? Laugh. Louise and I found humor and belly laughs everywhere, from mundane occurrences to lurid indignities of her... View Details
- Portrait Project
Emily Anadu
When I was eleven, my mother, two sisters and I left my father and a very comfortable life in Nigeria to live with my grandmother in Texas. My sisters and I joke that the silver spoons that were placed in our mouths at birth were replaced... View Details
- Portrait Project
Adam Zalisk
windows rolled up, I would think back to those theater days. I knew that behind each of those car windows, there was a person playing back their day. Some folks were driving home with a grin, remembering a success, a joke made in... View Details
- Portrait Project
Alice Yen
snap peas from the vine for an afternoon snack and eat freshly picked winter melon for dinner. We joke that in a former life, my dad must have been a farmer, spending every day digging into fresh topsoil. Seeing my dad care for his garden... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
finds time to serve on boards—including at her husband’s beverage company—and oversee another startup in health care. Fisher jokes that her career has been about “liquid assets”—blood, water, and beer—but she says the common thread is the... View Details