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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
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
How HBS Supported My Career Transitions During and After Graduation
work just as I did. We traded suggestions, job leads, complaints, and plenty of jokes as we worked together to get everyone hired. Everyone in that group (30+ classmates) found work by the end of 2020. My career coach Martha from the HBS... View Details
- 10 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Coming Out at Business School
cracked jokes when I needed those too. My support system has allowed me to explore my identity without fear or shame, and I am so lucky for that. My coming out story is still unfolding. I am thankful I live in a place where I can be... 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
- 31 Oct 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers
share useful information in informal settings. One of the ways people who are in the numerical minority (I call them O’s) get accepted into groups of otherwise all X’s is to be seen as “having a good sense of humor.” That means laughing at View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 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
- 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 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
simplified the application process, asking business owners for only a bank statement as part of their mobile-based loan application, and delivering funds to successful applicants within 48 hours. “The joke we crack is that with most... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 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
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
bottom up: Staff writer, story editor, coproducer, producer, supervising producer, co-executive producer, executive producer, show runner. “Titles in Hollywood mean everything and nothing. Executive producer sounds very important, but there are seven or eight of us on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Spray Canon
to construct.” Taylor Callery Taylor Callery Riley offers the various cryptocurrency-enthusiast communities as an example. “These coins are like social movements: People are getting behind them because they believe in the person who created it or the View Details
- 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
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
in October, and texting everyone I knew about it. “There’s no way this is a real job,” I joked with my friends. You get paid to live and work in a national park? Doing management consulting? No way. As a native Californian and landscape... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 11 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
listing for the internship with the National Park Service in October, and texting everyone I knew about it. “There’s no way this is a real job,” I joked with my friends. You get paid to live and work in a national park? Doing management... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
ROOFTOP GARDEN: HBS project manager Kevin Ruby surveys Shad Hall’s newly planted perennials. Photographs by Neal Hamberg When it came time to replace the leaky roof on Shad Hall — runners joked of dodging buckets placed on the indoor... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
my life. Joking aside, getting great press or opening a large account are the entrepreneurial highs that keep us going. The most challenging part of the business is managing inventory. It is easy to be aspirational and to design the next... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
his undergraduate alma mater, he proudly explains that it is a place where all students are welcome, not just those who are Jewish. Born a twin, the New York City native jokes that he had to learn the basics of coexistence even before... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
Suddenly everyone everywhere was talking about the smallish Danish company, as its story migrated from medical journals into mainstream and social media. Once Jimmy Kimmel opened the 2023 Academy Awards with a joke about Ozempic, the... View Details
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
when bosses fail to realize that they're not communicating clearly. Kanter cites an old joke as an example: A man drives to a gas station to fill up his tank, and the attendant can't help noticing that there's a penguin in the backseat of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel