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- 28 Feb 2011
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Rebooting the Human Condition
visionaries and doers that focuses on creativity, imagination, and Next Big Things. At the 2009 conference, in a talk of 18 minutes (the maximum time allowed for all TED speakers), Enriquez explained clearly and humorously how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
HBS Honors Four Alumni
“What is wisdom?” With Burden Hall packed with an audience of first-year MBA students, the honorees at the September event rose to the challenge and did not disappoint with their responses to that and other related questions. Couching their remarks in equal measures of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
Hellman takes a casual, often humorous view of his accomplishments. He’d rather talk about his love for bluegrass music than The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., an organization his firm made headlines with when it invested $240 million in it.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Wynton Marsalis, Entrepreneur
erudition and humor in discussing famous entrepreneurs in music, from Richard Wagner to Duke Ellington, and his own entrepreneurial experiences as an aspiring musician and currently as artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Jazz,... View Details
- 10 Sep 2008
- News
Thanks for the Memories
Community Narratives section offers video recollections of retired and current faculty, and alumni leaders. In addition, it presents a collection of over 140 poignant and humorous stories by HBS alumni, staff, faculty, community members... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
Howard. By asking me the right questions, with humor and humility, he led me to make good decisions in my life. He mentored me without me realizing it.” — Stephanie Noone, HBS Development Officer “If there’s ever a fallen sparrow writhing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
East Side Story
his wisdom, compassion, empathy, and commitment to public service, noting as well his sense of humor and legendary vocabulary. During his career, Goodman was a strong advocate for the arts and cultural institutions, and sponsored more... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
integrate professional and personal goals in making career choices. Christina R. Lane (MBA '82) took listeners on a humorous sojourn, recounting her adventures as an international management consultant to governments, businesses, and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
Unable to attend this year's Cyberposium because of the impending birth of his first child, Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivered the February event's keynote address from Seattle. Appearing on a large video screen in Burden Auditorium, Bezos spoke with... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Funny Business
belt, Friedman, who has also published humor pieces in the New Yorker, is now a staff writer for Showtime’s Desus & Mero—the “Bodega Boys” duo known for rapid-fire riffs on current events and pop culture. Here, she offers a quick glimpse... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
INK: The Bookshelf
You don’t need to be trained in theater to present well. You don’t need to have the humor of Jerry Seinfeld or the looks of Brad Pitt or the stage presence of Taylor Swift. You simply need to think logically, prepare diligently, and speak... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
their fieldwork with a number of independent companies. In a humorous aside, Lawrence noted that the book’s French publisher had translated its subtitle into Managing Differentiation or Integration, not “and,” as written. Yet “making an... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
presentations. Kawasaki's wry observations of the current business scene were relayed with self-deprecating humor and great panache. His list of the "Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs" included: In year three, we're going to do $75 million... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Paulson Sees World of Opportunity
Kim (MBA ’06), who humorously deemed himself an unworthy spokesman for his high-achieving classmates, confessing that “grade disclosure may be an idea whose time has come, but thankfully it is just my time to go.” In a more serious vein,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
The World at a Click
two-year-old, name-your-price discount site gaining fame of late with humorous ads featuring pitchman William Shatner. Both companies have grown rapidly since entering the online market, and with consolidation already under way... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelly
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Marshall-ing the Facts with Marty While reading the remembrance of Professor Martin Marshall in the June Bulletin, I recalled a humorous but “typically Marty” happening that I witnessed while attending OPM in the late 1980s. The case... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
of business operations support, the plucky British expatriate recounts her "life's ups and downs," as she puts it, with humor and grace. One of Barron's first setbacks came in the late 1960s, when she arrived in the United States as a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Class Day & Commencement
(BGIE), Associate Professor Das Narayandas (Marketing), and Associate Professor Frances Frei (TOM), who also won the award last year. Next up was Student Speaker Brendan McGeever (MBA ’03), whose humorous address touched on the subtext of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
showed how an audience is impressed and won over if the magician “goofs” the first time (e.g., guessing the three of clubs rather than the seven of spades) only to recover through humorous and seemingly Herculean mental effort to get it... View Details