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  • Portrait Project

Rebecca Gifford

my sense of humor when I hit my thumb accidentally (which, knowing me, will happen often). And I will teach my own children "If I Had a Hammer," to inspire them to create their own hammers. Hammers they can use for change, all... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Aduke Thelwell

many times because she had the courage to do things people said couldn't be done. More importantly, she will have maintained a sense of humor and empathy for others, because while the specifics will change, her core will remain unchanged.... View Details
  • Career Coach

Becca Carnahan

resumes, cover letters, and LinkedIn profiles and specializes in personal branding and storytelling. Becca is a proud working mom of two from Massachusetts and writes about her humorous parenting experiences for her blog and other top... View Details
Keywords: Education; Publishing / Communications / Advertising
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

The HBS Show Must Go On: "STARt-up WARS" Continues Tradition of Smash Hits

sixteen skits and popular songs with humorously altered lyrics in a satirical look at HBS life. The organizers borrowed money to produce the show, which ran for two nights in Baker 100. A sell-out hit, the HBS Show has since become an... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 16 Apr 2013
  • News

A Walkabout to the Ocean

understand how the world works, I'd better get a crash education in management and finance." HBS professor Jonathan Tiemann's class in finance changed everything. "I was a total idiot, with absolutely no experience in finance," says Merkl. "With his great View Details
Keywords: Ocean; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government
  • 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 Jun 1997
  • News

Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey

Careers in writing and business were foreshadowed early for T. A. (Tom) Barron (MBA '80). When he was nine years old, growing up in Harvard, Massachusetts, he produced a humor magazine, The Idiot's Odyssey, which he peddled to the public... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Amy S. Langer

humor and energy for action. “After my accident,” she says, “I got notes from people in the disability community saying, ‘Heard about your accident — great news for us!' I think what they were saying was, ‘With the help of this national... View Details
  • 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
  • Web

TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life - Course Catalog

humor and warmth. K indness : care about others, and show it. In this course, you will: Reflect on your conversational goals and values. Participate in many immersive conversation exercises (both silly and serious)--always as yourself (no... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Warren Law Remembered

Warren excelled at teaching by the case method, he was also an excellent speaker in all kinds of forums. He was famous for a sense of humor and wry delivery that reminded people of Will Rogers at his best.” Warren Aubrey Law was born in... View Details
Keywords: obiturary; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 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
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 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
Keywords: magic; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 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 Aug 2001
  • News

Class Day and Commencement 2001

relocated from nearby Aldrich Lawn due to construction of the new Hawes Hall classroom building, tradition otherwise prevailed in the form of beautiful weather, wise and humorous speeches, and an enthusiastic crowd of MBA graduates (some... View Details
Keywords: Marcel Acosta; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 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 Mar 2004
  • News

HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania

how the animals move — the humorous strut of the ostrich, the clumsy run of the hippo, the scamper of the mongoose. Leopards, buffalo, hyenas, rhinos, warthogs, monkeys, baboons, crocodiles, waterbucks, impalas, and pink flamingos also... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business

The crisis in American business has spawned tales of colorful characters who will surely live on in folk memory, quipped Harvard Business School professor D. Quinn Mills: the ignorant CEO; the creative accountants; the big-spending dot-com kid. Dark View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015

Alumni Books The Boat House Café: Book One of First Light by Linda Cardillo (MBA 1978) (Bellastoria Press LLP) A novel set on Martha’s Vineyard. Buffoonery on Woodhouse Avenue by Bob Garland (PMD 20, 1970) (Gabbrolandbooks) The fourth in a series of View Details
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