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- 16 Nov 2010
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The HBS Tunnels
Did you know that the HBS tunnels are connected to the Harvard University tunnels across the river? Read on, and all shall be made clear! Although connected, the two tunnel systems are very different. The ten miles of Harvard steam tunnels are hot, accessible only to... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 09 Jun 2011
- News
The Tycoons, HBS's First A Cappella Group
The Tycoons in 1950 Songs Sung by the 1957 Tycoons: Money We Love the Ladies All the Things You Are My Fair Lady Medley Lydia, the Tattooed Lady Imagination Ugly Chile Princess Papuli Honey Teasin' Medley Sunshine Girl (Quartet) Subway Song Stairway to the Stars... View Details
- 19 Dec 2008
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WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
Almost fifty years before HBS developed a broadcast presence with its own Web site in 1996, the School had a rather limited one: the radio station WHBS, which was in operation from 1948 to 1964 or 1965. It was limited because the broadcasting was done via HBS’s power... View Details
- 02 Mar 2011
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Last Look - March 2011
LAST ISSUE’S LAST LOOK: As you may have noticed, we are discontinuing the Last Look feature, for we have run out of usable photos from the archives. Modest Andrew Vogel (MBA ’01) wrote: “I believe this is from the 2000 HBS show STARt-up WARS, from an HBS classroom... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 03 Mar 2010
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Last Look - March 2010
Our thanks to Ron Demer (MBA ’64E), who identified his male classmates in the photo as (top) Jon Plexico (E, now deceased) and Joe Collins (B); (bottom) Bob McNitt (E) and Konrad Ulbrich (F, now deceased). Demer added that “nothing was going on; just a few students... View Details
- 26 Feb 2009
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Last Look - March 2009
Our thanks to HRPBA ’60-ers Sandy Krickovic Self and Nancy Needham Merrill, who recognized themselves as the second and third models in the photo. Self wrote: “In Malcolm McNair’s Marketing class, we were studying the women’s retail clothing market and how there was... View Details
- 14 Jul 2010
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The Concerts in the Chapel
One of the cultural amenities of life on the HBS campus is the availability of free music concerts in the Class of 1959 Chapel. Designed by Moshe Safdie in 1992, the chapel and its adjoining clock tower were funded by members of the MBA Class of 1959. After it was... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
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Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
(sent in by class-notes secretaries) Catchphrases and Mottos 1972B studied an HBO (Human Behavior in the Organization) case in which there were two hourly workers. One of them would steal the other fellow’s banana every day from his brown-paper-bag lunch. Every day... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
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Last Look - December 2008
Our thanks to Tom Barry, Ed Jones, Ira Krauss, Henry Kuehn, Rodger Marting, Michael Owen, and John Williams (all MBA ’69E), who identified members of Section E welcoming home their MERC II (Managerial Economics, Reporting, and Control) professor, Ed Zschau (with the... View Details
- 11 Aug 2011
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Heard on the Street and the She-E-Os
After its first a cappella group, The Tycoons, disbanded ca. 1970-71, HBS had to wait almost 20 years before two new a cappella groups, Heard on the Street (HOTS) and the She-E-Os, were founded in the late 1980s: HOTS in 1987 by Bill Gaden (MBA ’89) and the She-E-Os in... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
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A Precursor from the 1930s
In his State of the School address at last fall’s reunion, Dean Nohria laid out his vision for HBS organized in what we can call the Five I’s: curriculum innovation, intellectual ambition, internationalization, inclusion (making the HBS experience more of a level... View Details
- 01 Apr 2011
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My First HBS Class
Readers subscribing to the “Life is real! Life is earnest!” philosophy may not have been thrilled by my two-part blog entry on “classroom hijinks” at HBS (see here and here). But they will be happy to hear that during my first-ever experience (after only 28 years at... View Details
- 11 May 2011
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The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS
The groves of academe are fields rich with possibilities for memorial naming, from entire campuses and buildings to individual benches. HBS has honored individuals and groups of people by putting their names not only to buildings but also to streets, rooms in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
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Last Look - September 2007
Our thanks to MBA 1976 classmates John Adams, Dottie Stephenson (both Section C), Sam Yates (Section D), and many others who provided details about this model rocket launch in Harvard Stadium. Yates wrote: “We had a first-year Marketing case called ‘Estes Rocket... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
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Last Look - September 2009
We seem to have stumped most of you with this photo showing a group of students waiting in front of an office whose front counter is closed with a grille. But Joe Bower (MBA ’61, DBA ’63) pinpointed the location as the basement of Baker: “That group of students is... View Details
- 19 May 2010
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Last Look - June 2010
Our thanks to Johanna Mooney (front row), who wrote that the photo shows MBA 2001, Section A’s Marketing class during a case discussion of Reynolds Aluminum, hence the aluminum-foil hats. Sean Hennessey is seated to her left. Márcio T. Trigueiro, to Hennessey’s left,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
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Classroom Hijinks: Catchphrases, Mottos, Cheers, and Mascots
Let me sing the praises of the unknown genius who devised the system in which an MBA section is taught all its first-year courses in one classroom. According to A Delicate Experiment, Jeff Cruikshank’s history of the early years of HBS (p. 282), Dean Donham’s... View Details
- 08 Sep 2010
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Last Look - September 2010
We seem to have stumped you in part with this photo. Thanks to Rich Holbrook (MBA ’80G) for identifying the “judges” as from his section: Mace Blicksilver, Jim Elrod, Steve Messner, Martin Przybylski, and Phil Stump. But no one remembers what the course or the case... View Details
- 29 Feb 2008
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Last Look - March 2008
What’s Going on Here? Who, what, where, when, and why .we’d appreciate any information that will help us identify what’s going on in this photograph plucked from the archives of Baker Library. Please contact us at bulletin@hbs.edu, or HBS Alumni Bulletin, Teele Hall... View Details
- 25 Sep 2009
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HBS’s Oldest Class Secretary
Cole in 1949 Let’s hear it for HBS’s oldest class secretary, Charlie Cole, who will turn 100 on July 23. Charlie writes about the AMP 14 class, which graduated in December 1948, 96 members strong, and now has 6 hardy souls. The 1949 Annual Report yearbook reported... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson