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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
forbidding building that used to be the stock exchange. Before that it was the headquarters of the Communist Party. “The joke was that if you stood with your back to the Communist headquarters, you could see Nowy Świat, which means ‘the... View Details
- 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
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
talked about pymetrics, and the joke has always been, oh, my God, I'm going to take it, and it's going to tell me I'm good for nothing, right? So what it's taught me is that that's actually true, that people range greatly in their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
and so humble. I joke with a colleague who has been here for fifteen years that I’m following in her footsteps. I hope to be here at least that long.” — JH — To learn more about the Leadership Fellows program, visit... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
editor and columnist Chris Kelly. “We often joke that if there’s ever a nuclear war, you want to be in Scranton because it takes 25 years for anything to get here. It’s still very much the old pay-to-play political model.” One example is... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
nuts, bolts, and other people involved. The trappings of potential success alone aren’t worth the sacrifice. And finally, understand that there is life on the other side, regardless of the outcome. Ken Towl (MBA 1977) President, Midas Technology Let not your heart be... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
joke among CMOs: Where’s the best place to bury a body? Answer: The second page of Amazon or Google results. Nobody goes there.) It’s also a high-maintenance approach for a small venture because it requires ongoing knowledge of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas just to kind of jolt people awake. And you might even start off with a joke to bring some levity to the meeting, especially because people are probably used to hearing bad news all day. My favorite View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 22 Jan 2018
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
joked that after our weekly two-hour class with Professor Ghosh, we felt like we had gone to church and confession for the week.” Guram:“Regina Herzlinger. Her belief in the power of entrepreneurship and market innovation to improve... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
Custom Home and a Web site (www.ownerbuilderbook.com) for owner-builders. After losing money for four years and just breaking even in the fifth, Smith jokes that this year, “there may not be a way to avoid it — we might just turn a... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
Fisher’s third liquid asset. She and Koch had been married for 18 years when she joined his company’s board, yet she jokes that he says, “I’m off the clock” when it comes to discussing business at home. Still, they do occasionally talk... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
Salman Khan (MBA 2003) is an energetic, amiable young man, with a twinkle in his eye and a fondness for jokes and self-deprecation. He’s unpretentious and unassuming, despite holding three degrees from MIT, where he was president of his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
Sal Khan (MBA 2003) Sal Khan (MBA 2003) is an energetic, amiable young man, with a twinkle in his eye and a fondness for jokes and self-deprecation. He’s unpretentious and unassuming, despite holding three degrees from MIT, where he was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
and office space. “It’s our lake view,” jokes DeWitt’s eldest son, William III (MBA ’95), the Cardinals’ senior vice president of business development. “But we won’t have it for long.” He adds that an agreement in principle for the... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
But the question arises: After several boom years, is commercial real estate ripe for another fall? Some insiders joke that any time MBAs pile into a field, it’s a good contrarian indicator. Gallows humor aside, market pros see parallels,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Ogden, who serves as co-managing director with Leiman. “Whenever we came to a decision point during the start-up phase we would joke with each other, ‘They’re at the end of the A case, they’re looking at each other in despair, what do... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
remember. His curiosity about the world and his intense pursuit of answers is so deeply ingrained Vescovo jokes that the impulse is in his genes. (Indeed, science has recently discovered several gene variants that seem more prevalent... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
like for you as an artist in these socially distant corona-times? Madame Gandhi: I think in the producer community, the sort of ongoing joke is that we’ve been preparing for this moment our whole life. I think the solitude of being in... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
a little bit pickled red cabbage, which is a little bit of a joke I don’t think anybody’s gotten. It’s a cabbage two ways, Brussels sprouts and cabbage are both sort of in the same family there. And then we have some hazelnuts, toasted... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture