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- 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
- Portrait Project
Dionne Hosten
flamenco to be learned, Cambodia's and Botswana's alleyways to get lost in, a wonderful evolving friendship with my parents, fabulous photographs to be taken and exhibited, building those friendships that just barely got started at HBS, all those bad "How to tell... View Details
- 27 Jan 2011
- News
The Joys of Cooking
Harvard girl who went into charity. When he saw me delivering cookies to his wife, he called out ‘Honey, the Harvard cookie girl is here!’ I liked the joke and named my company that.” View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Liberal Smarts
experience influence this decision to focus on liberal arts? I majored in visual and environmental studies and specialized in filmmaking, and I joke with my colleagues that I made up for my sins in liberal arts by getting a business... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- News
Brenda Bence (MBA 1991)
four continents, including South America and Asia. Then, on April 1, 2002, she launched her own firm. “I always joked that if it didn’t work out, I would tell everyone it was an April Fool’s prank,” recalls Bence. “But the business took... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jan Swartz (MBA 1996)
Swartz, MBA 1996] jokes that my hotel requirements have changed significantly since I sold him on stories like this." Where she'd like to visit next: The Galápagos Islands; Machu Picchu. Travel tips: Global Entry, a program that allows... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
arena like television comedy. Show business is, of course, a business, and any business can use MBAs. Writing a comedy-mystery show like Monk involves adding jokes to the mix of character and story. I’ve always been a fan of mysteries. In... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990)
it’s going to be war.’” What makes him Italian: “The ability to get angry or very happy in a seamless way that is impossible for Anglo-Saxons to understand. Joking about everything, even in the darkest moments.” British mysteries:... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
Is the bloom off the entrepreneurial rose? Do B2B and B2C mean "Back to Banking" and "Back to Consulting," as the current joke would have it? Where are the opportunities for those who still believe starting their own business is the way... View Details
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- Alumni WDYDWYD
Jacqueline Adams
For years, I've joked (sort of) that "I live to serve!" It's a riff on a black woman's most frequent role since our ancestors were brought to this continent against their wills. But it's also been true. As a local television... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
Peek: The People, The Experience, and The Case Method
Chad Losee and he was able to deconstruct any myths we had related to the admissions process. HBS even developed a mobile app dedicated to Peek. This helped us access program information and built community among the students. Through the app, we View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
with the demands of career and family. “It’s a trick, a skill, an art, a science that very few people manage,” he said. After the highs of achievement, Sahlman broached the darker subject of tough times. “You turned immediately to me. This is extremely worrying,” View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
places that aren’t on most people’s vacation lists. “My wife often jokes that every vacation we’ve taken since we first met involves visiting an orphanage or refugee camp,” says Wu, who is driven by a desire to help others just as he and... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 05 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology
Tell us about your career prior to HBS?I like to joke that prior to HBS I went from a career in abstract to applied philosophy, with an ever increasing focus on the applied. I started out on a very academic path—focused in symbolic logic... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
HBS Association of Ireland: Connecting at Home and Abroad
paid the bill.” Barry, who joined the HBSAI when he returned to Dublin, first served as its secretary. He jokes that he became president in the summer of 2000 “because I was the last man left standing.” In reality, the HBSAI's lead role... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Trusty Board
What makes a good board member? "The three w's," jokes Carter Brown, "work, wealth, and wisdom." Brown, who reported to a board during his two decades at the National Gallery and who is a longtime trustee of numerous organizations, is... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
Dr. Peter L. Slavin (MBA '90) nods toward a long line stretching back from a gourmet coffee counter. "That's one of our most utilized facilities," he says with a smile. "The joke around here is that the hospital operation is a loss leader... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
are being deployed on the lending side,” he says. Cummings, who jokes that he’s “going from pretend farmer to pretend banker,” submitted the banking charter and FDIC insurance applications in August 2021 and hopes to have a provisional... View Details
- Profile
Scott Wu
places that aren’t on most people’s vacation lists. “My wife often jokes that every vacation we’ve taken since we first met involves visiting an orphanage or refugee camp,” says Wu, who is driven by a desire to help others just as he and... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Blog Post
Favorite Memories from HBS
vulnerability. And still others came from the more mundane day-to-day of sitting in the same classroom together for a year, like the inside jokes and “section challenges” we had during class (best one: incorporate a Taylor Swift lyric... View Details