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- 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
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
what should be looked at with skepticism.” Massie recalls one of his HBS professors once joking that entrepreneurship is finding ways to do things that you want using other people's resources. “I identify in many ways with being an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... 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
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
“But in 1979, because of price controls, there were lines at filling stations. We joked that while people were waiting in line, they could kill time reading Energy Future.” The book was embraced by the Carter administration whose National... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... 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
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
years of acquired expertise, planning the Olympics is a novel experience in many ways. "A lot of this kind of work is new to us," he says. "The athletes, the sponsors, the broadcasters - they all seem to be old hands at this business. Around my office, the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
was taken with the opening of Fab 3 in Livermore, California, in April 1973. It was here that the now familiar “bunny suit” was introduced. “The bunny suits and the whole routine were a huge joke around the company for years,” according... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
$45 billion. Says a former senior investment banker who now serves as a director for several S&P 500 companies: “The Lehman board was a joke and a disgrace. Asleep at the switch doesn’t begin to describe it.” Inherent Conflicts of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
has been bridging the gap between the quantitative folks who create new products and the trading community, because each side speaks its own language," she says. "I joke that I'm not a quant, but I play one on TV. I also like... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick joked in his speech.) Related Links A Blueprint for Patient-Driven Drug Development Gene Williams (MBA 1987) Blavatnik Gift Accelerates Biomedical Advances Oscar Winners Even worse is what... View Details
- 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
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
about, encourage manners and taught you to do avoid contradicting others in public. Kim: Yes. Dan: How hard was it for you personally to overcome that tradition and embrace this idea of radical candor? Kim: I like to joke that in many... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
single-handedly take credit for the resurgence in board games,” jokes Furlong, “but that’s probably a little presumptuous.” He does, however, believe that Cranium’s success has made an impact on the market. “We have developed a solid... 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
- 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
- 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
- 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