Under the glare of spotlights in the packed Main Lounge last Monday, HBS’s spanking new student center was dedicated to C.D. (“Dick”) Spangler, Jr. (MBA ’56) and his wife, Meredith Spangler. In a warm, efficient ceremony that was mostly solemn, but sometimes comical, the heads of the faculty and student body were joined by a…
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January 29, 2001
Calling on the warrior mentality
Debby Hopkins, EVP and CFO, of Lucent Technologies, was the first keynote speaker at the Women’s Student Association Conference on January 20, 2001. Debby Hopkins is known in the business world as “one of America’s top ten CFO’s.” She has risen to No. 2 on FORTUNE’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business…
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January 29, 2001
Building a brand
Can a building represent a brand?Such was the question that launched renowned New York architect Robert A.M. Stern into a lively dissertation on the relationship between buildings and brands. As part of the Spangler Center’s dedication ceremony last Monday afternoon, Stern addressed a capacity crowd with a message as insightful as it was spirited. In…
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January 29, 2001
Dynamic Women in Business International Posts Panel
It was indeed an impressive panel of dynamic women who participated in “The Risk and Reward of an International Post” panel at the 10th Annual WSA conference held on Saturday, January 20, 2001. The four top executives from institutions as diverse as Taco Bell International and Ford Motor Company entertained and educated conference panelists with…
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January 29, 2001
Ellen Hancock shares career lessons from the top
As she briskly walked to the podium to address the 900 attendees of the HBS Women’s Conference last Saturday, Ellen Hancock appeared confident and tough. Yet one could tell from her first quote that this woman, now the Chairman and CEO of Exodus Communications, has had her share of challenges and earned her strips in…
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January 29, 2001
Recruiter Newsflash
Manufacturers Mitsubishi Motors Corp. shareholders Friday approved the appointment of a DaimlerChrysler AG executive to its No. 2 post and to a seat on its board. The appointment marks the latest step to rebuild consumer confidence shaken by an auto defects coverup at the Japanese auto maker.”We know we can manage this turnaround,” Rolf Eckrodt,…
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January 29, 2001
WSA media & entertainment panel a success
Once again this year, the Media and Entertainment Panel at the WSA Conference was a smashing success! The Aldrich room was packed to the hilt with people lining up in the back of the room and down the aisles to hear the panelists. Christina Mohr, Managing Director of the Media Group at Salomon Smith Barney…
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January 29, 2001
Baker Library launches Women in Business website
Baker Library has just completed the first year of a project to identify the holdings on women’s history in its manuscript collections. According to Laura Linard, Director of Historical Collections at Baker Library, the project’s Web site, Unheard Voices: American Women in the Emerging Industrial and Business Age, www.library.hbs.edu/hc/unheard_voices, went online last week. Women’s history…
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January 29, 2001
Mind your own business
Hey – you’re the career rep – stop reading this and help me find me a summer job. All right, as I feverishly work to field an intramural basketball team from my section, I have found that most people I ask would rather get another flu shot than join the team. I suspect one of…
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January 29, 2001
Runners' Calendar
February 1, 2001Logan Post 5.1KWest Somerville, MA USA 7:00PM Logan Post, 1194 Broadway 508-775-0143 BostonClyde@aol.comKhoury’s 4.13MEast Somerville, MA USA 7:15PM Khoury’s State Spa, 118 Broadway 617-598-1028 x1024ayem_srr@yahoo.com February 3, 2001Fresh Pond 5M/2.5MCambridge, MA USA 10:00AM Fresh Pond, Route 2 , 617-494-1633 northmedfordclub@aol.comCMS 52-Week 5K Series #5Worcester, MA USA 9:00AM Worcester State College, Chandler Street cmsrun@hotmail.comFudgcicle…
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January 22, 2001
Break-Through Rapid Reading
If you’re like most people, you probably read at a rate of about 285 words per minute (WPM). But what if you could read at 500, 1000, or even 2000 WPM? Imagine being able to read your cases in half the time. It was exactly this possibility that led me to pick up Peter Kump’s…
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January 22, 2001
The Vault
Perhaps even more so than tough finance questions, brainteasers can unnerve the most icy-veined, well-prepared finance candidate. Even if you know the relationships between inflation, bond prices and interest rates like the back of a dollar bill, all your studying may not help you when your interviewer asks you how many ping pong balls fit…
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January 22, 2001
The January Cohort
A very special group of students joined us this winter, as the January cohort of the class of 2002 started registering for classes on January 2, 2001. As the first class to christen Spangler Hall, they were also the last group that will be known as a “January” cohort. And if that wasn’t enough, they…
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January 22, 2001
Trading Places
One of the many features of HBS is your Section and Seat assignment. Fresh from Foundations, first-years flick, fingers fluttering, through reams of smiling facsimile faces of the cohort, looking for the Section and the Seat with which they will forever be associated. Heaving with relief from not being put in the same section as…
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January 22, 2001
Section Q
I have been seriously discussing with myself, a very tough interlocutor, for about three hours what could be the best way of welcoming and saluting the last glorious January Cohort in HBS history: the one of Class 2002. After having written two versions of this article I decided I had better reviewing what I wrote…
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January 22, 2001
George W. Bush Timeline
1946 George W. Bush born July 6 in New Haven, Conn.1948 Bush family moves from Connecticut to Texas.1950 Sister Robin born.1953 Brother Jeb born. Robin dies of leukemia.1955 Brother Neil born.1956 Brother Marvin born.1959 Sister Dorothy born.1961 Enrolls at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass.1964 Graduates from Andover and enrolls at Yale University. His father loses…
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January 22, 2001
Section P
The Partners’ Club hosted a wonderful January Cohort Partners’ Orientation Lunch on Sunday, January 7th. The event was sponsored by the HBS Student Association. New partners were given the opportunity to meet one another before the rest of the students and partners returned from Winter Break. If you are a partner and missed this event,…
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January 22, 2001
Section TBD
After starting classes, the January cohort prepared themselves for a busy weekend. There were, of course, some people who decided to take advantage of the long weekend and travel. The ones who stayed, however, were ready to party all over the place, and with a vengeance! We started warming up on Thursday, when 40+ people…
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January 22, 2001
Stowe Away Frogs
The long weekend saw the advent of the much-anticipated Section F ski trip, and 38 Frogs and partners moved the Frog Pond from Aldrich 208 to Stowe, Vermont. Terrible traffic and dodgy directions made the trip up an arduous one–just ask Craig Robinson, who headed towards Maine before coming back to Massachusetts and finally turning…
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January 22, 2001
Undefeated, Baby!!!
In its first outing of the season, the OF B-squad graciously accepted the forfeit victory from an overwhelmed NG squad that just couldn’t face up to starting off the new year against the crimson side. Someone in NG was rumored to have said, “I’ll take C&S, BGIE, Hell Week, and the rest, but facing those…
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January 22, 2001
Classmates remember Bush the personality
When George W. Bush announced his candidacy for president of the United States in 1999, many members of HBS’s Class of 1975 rallied to support their classmate with their time and money. Many were tantalized by the bragging rights and some agreed with his politics. April Hoxie Foley, however, had other motives. April Hoxie was…
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January 22, 2001
Wondering about your career path?
Imagine yourself checking the job bank one night as your wrestle with the possibilities of spending the summer as a consultant or a banker. A new job listing catches your eye. The organization: The United States of America, the title: Chief Executive, the location: The White House. Intrigued by the possibility of securing a job…
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January 22, 2001
Dell Case Competition at Harvard
The Dell Case Competition took place on Dec 8 and Dec 9, 2000. The competition was sponsored by Dell, which would like to get some business ideas from MBA students. I believed that the competition started at University of Michigan and now has extended to other business schools (Chicago, Duke, Kellog, Michigan, UNC, and Wharton)….
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January 22, 2001
Editorial
Welcome to the G.W.Bush special issue. Spearheaded by Rick Zednik NF the issue aims at bringing the new president of the US and HBS’s most powerful alum closer to members of the community. As with all special issues to come, this has been explored under various sections of the paper with spoofs and cartoons in…
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January 22, 2001
The HBS Superbowl Pro Forma
Who will win the Superbowl?The Giants – 60%The Ravens – 30%The Yankees – 10% How many dot coms with Superbowl commercials will be out of business next year?Four – 30%Five – 10%All – 60%None – 0% Who do you want to sing the National Anthem?The She-O’s – 10%Milli Vanilli – 10%Dean Clark – 20%Britney Spears…