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- 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...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 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...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
weeks (the man does not let up!), the students come to appreciate the intensity and rapid-fire humor of their teacher. Clearly, he cares. A lot. And by the end of the semester, something transformative has happened: They are better...
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- 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
- 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...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
J. Fox (MBA ’69) (Jossey-Bass) Fox’s business parable follows a young New England paperboy named Rain as he learns the business of being in business and quickly becomes the best paperboy in town. A series of humorous vignettes illustrates...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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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...
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- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
innovations in auction design. JH: Wilson humorously refers to his Nobel-Prize winning students, who include Milgrom, Al Roth, and Bengt Holmstrom, as “my trifecta.” With that track record, he’s often asked for his secret sauce in...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
schools. We All Leak Eventually: Stories from a Humorously Unbalanced Mind by Larry Castriotta (MBA 1973) (Larry Castriotta) Writing of his life growing up in a small town within a tight, loving family, Castriotta revisits his childhood...
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- 18 Mar 2014
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The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Inc., likes to tell that story, not only for the humor inherent in Wanamaker's statement, but also because it relates directly to his business. "That's a data problem," Howe says. "Business, like life, is full of decisions. Almost every...
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- 10 Aug 2017
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Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
going to open the floor up to all of you. Right over here. Hi. Hunt Duran, section E, 2002. Just a simple question, how much does humor play into being happy? You seem like you're a pretty funny guy. I haven't met too many people who...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
something went wrong, he'll probably tell ten. Before long, everyone has heard a story about someone's bad experience." Putting Out Fires So what about the bad days? The business of preparing and serving food is a source of some of the most memorable, most View Details
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Hanna, Julia
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
breakthrough, rather than a break from professional advancement. As she discovered, “soft” skills are actually pretty hard, but they can be mastered. As kids demonstrate, we all learn best when having fun. In this book, dozens of essential executive leadership lessons...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
runs his own venture capital firm, Bear Ventures LLC. “With his multiple investments in various early- and mid-stage companies, his point of view is invaluable to me,” she notes. But even more importantly, says Erdoes, given the couple's oftenstressful occupations,...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2014
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My HBS Eureka Moment
'Harvard' instead of 'Baker' they need to fill out a form at the registrar's office." I was later told that quite a few people showed up looking for those forms, to the annoyance of the people working in that office. The story ran on April 1. That experience eventually...
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- 26 May 2022
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Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
when he started at HBS in 1979, the LGBTQ students’ club was known as “Alternative Executive Lifestyles” and they had to hold meetings off campus, with no formal recognition as a school club. “The younger folks in our audience didn’t know about that, and everyone...
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Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
above and beyond than what Mama asked. Fu’s playful humor and bouncy rhythms, set against Julie Kwon’s expressive illustrations, perfectly captures how a plucky daughter’s exuberance and a tired mom come together amidst the beautiful...
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- 20 Dec 2019
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The 19 Musts of 2019
the human race has known since My Fair Lady, how you communicate determines how others perceive you. Grammar Girl teaches the ins and outs of good communication with humor and style.” —Stever Robbins (MBA 1991), executive coach,...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Unleashed
crisis. What is cause for celebration or pride or shame. Culture even determines something as fundamental as what is funny. Humor is not a universal truth; it’s a cultural one. For example, a culture challenge at Riot Games was that...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand
opportunities to travel and meet new people. Maintain a sense of humor and share your true self. Make sure you have close friends with whom you can brainstorm and complain in private. Be positive in the job environment, but be sure that...
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