After spending four years in finance first in M&A and then in private equity, I was pretty confident that “trying something new” this past summer would have been next to impossible. This was confirmed when I couldn’t even get an interview with non-profits! However, I discovered a little known and little discussed secret; there are…
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September 30, 2002
They Said What?
This issue of They Said What? features a medley from Professor Richard Tedlow, the HBS resident expert on the history of business. All quotes this issue come from EC courses, indicating that the first years need to start paying enough attention in class to catch those humorous comments between naps! Anyone who doesn’t fall into…
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June 3, 2002
Frogs Graduate
Well, Frogs, we made it! We came in as tadpoles, and now we’re hopping on out of HBS fully transformed. First off, congratulations to Jamie and his Warder Clan, as they now number five. Mary Margaret Warder was born on May 8th, weighing in at 8 pounds 6 ounces, and measuring 20 inches. Jamie reports…
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May 6, 2002
Section NE
Big-E kicked off last weekend with an unbeatable showing of support for our HBS Show participants. But the solidarity of the group was compromised 24 hours later when, much to the chagrin of wives and girlfriends across Cambridge, the men of the section went on some sort of field trip to Canada. Apparently it had…
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April 1, 2002
The Need for Cheap Beer
I use this column to attempt to educate and enrich my readers’ beer drinking habits. My hope is to make each of you a better drinker by enhancing your taste, better informing your opinions, and making suggestions so that your next beer will be better than the last. Usually this leads to snobbery, as the…
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March 25, 2002
Using the Web to Explore A New City
Hey, if you’re considering a new place to live, or you’ve already decided, the Net can make life easier for you. Sure, it’s tough locating a place to live from afar, but once there, it’ll also take you a while to connect with people, and even to get advice, like, on what neighborhoods are like…
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February 4, 2002
J Meets Vegas & Prepares for Hell Week
I am not sure if we are on Casino Trek II, III, IV or more, but Barry Hytinen led a few more of his fearless gamers to Las Vegas over the long weekend. I pried for the down-low on the evening activities, but didn’t get very far. The party line is that it was pretty…
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January 28, 2002
Section Love
I’m all for making new friends. But I wasn’t too sure how the whole section thing would work out. Before coming to HBS, I kept hearing how my section-mates would be “my best friends for life.” As someone who holds her best friends to pretty high standards, I was dubious. Who would these people be?…
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January 22, 2002
Baseball Bargaining
Anybody wonder how much money our Kansas City Zephyrs lost last year? If one believes the (unaudited) financial statements presented by Major League Baseball to the U.S. Congress in December, our beloved FRC Zephyrs probably lost their shirts… and their cleats too. League Commissioner Bud Selig testified to Congress that the sport’s 30 teams lost…
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December 10, 2001
The Harbus Intraview with David Schlendorf and Sue Choe
New York, New York, Ole!by Sue Choe (NJ) Despite my other dating fiascos, I have always had surprisingly good luck with blind dates. The first yielded a rollicking good time at my 11th grade Homecoming Dance; the second resulted in a really sweet boyfriend, and the third-which occurred only last week through this esteemed publication-led…
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December 10, 2001
The Intraview's Post Game Interview
Me ‘n’ Her AuntieGoldie: OK, this is more of a comment than a question. I would just like to say that there is nothing wrong with using various electronic means to research potential/current/ex-significant others. If it weren’t for Lexis-Nexis, I wouldn’t know that two out of my three ex-boyfriends are now married. Care to support…
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December 3, 2001
Interviews From Hell
by Ben Gordon (MBA ’00)It was 1:30 on a Friday afternoon in rainy New Haven, and I was excited.Not because the week was over, and not because of the weather, but because I was about to enter my very first full-time job interview. A prestigious Wall Street firm had called to invite me to interview…
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December 3, 2001
Exciting Opportunities for Those Hungry for High-Tech
Despite the down market, the high-tech industry remains an enticing career option, providing a combination of attributes that many Harvard Business School MBAs still find irresistible: autonomy, fast pace, variety, intellectual challenge, potential for financial upside, and the chance to have a significant impact not just on a company, but on entire industries. Opportunities are…
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December 3, 2001
Zibby Joins Job-Search
What do I want to be when I grow up? Good question. It’s a question I’ve struggled with since I was a mere toddler. I’ve gone from wanting to be a writer, to a teacher, to Madonna, to a psychologist, to a brand manager, and back to being a writer. But what I’ve always believed…
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December 3, 2001
NH Has Thanksgiving to Remember
Section H has been in a flurry of social activity. We’ve been celebrating birthday after birthday-a lot of Scorpios in this group! Liz Chirpich threw a great birthday party at her house, and Wednesday bar nights continue to be well-attended. But after all of the section bonding, we all spent our Thanksgiving holidays in our…
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October 22, 2001
No Name. No Address. Just Fate
New York movies are back in vogue, with the Twin Towers carefully edited out of shots of the Manhattan skyline; and romantic comedies simply have a universal appeal to them. Serendipity delivers some of the institutions tourists would associate with ’80s New York: Bloomingdale’s, the Waldorf, the Central Park ice skating rink, the Subway, and…
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October 15, 2001
Battening Down the Hatches
HBS officials and members of the SA Senate have agreed on a plan to improve security in campus buildings by restricting entry to the Spangler Center to HBS ID-holders after 9 p.m. In addition, most of the doors to Aldrich, which are not equipped with card-activated locks, will be locked by that hour as well,…
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October 9, 2001
HBS Students Must Earn Their "Birthright"
To the Editor: Joseph P. Kahn’s September 27 article in the Boston Globe, “Degrees of Discomfort,” is among the most unsettling articles that I’ve read regarding the aftermath of the attacks on New York and Washington, DC. Apparently, a wide range of Harvard Business School students now are reconsidering their careers. Some are choosing nonprofit…
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October 9, 2001
Cheers and Jeers
Cheer: To Case Protagonist Bill Feth (’75), CEO of Akron Electronics Supply Company. After finishing Supply Chain class with the normal case protagonist wrap-up, Feth went above the call of duty and gave us heartfelt advice about maintaining work/life balance, giving back to the community, and exercising freedoms. The ovation Feth received was the most…
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October 1, 2001
A Tribute To David Alger, Harvard College '66
Like so many of you, I continue to struggle with the tragic events that unfolded in New York on September 11, 2001. Having worked for a summer in the World Trade Center’s north tower, the enormity of the devastation and loss on that day struck close to home. The day carried profound sadness for me…
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October 1, 2001
Moving On
I lost my best friend last week in the World Trade Center incident. Although I’m trying very hard to make my life go “back to normal,” I’m slowly realizing that this may be one goal that’s just unattainable, even for a first-year HBS student. Stacey and I met the first day of college and became…
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September 24, 2001
HBS Students Must Earn Their “Birthright” To The Top
To the Editor: Joseph P. Kahn’s September 27 article in the Boston Globe, “Degrees of Discomfort,” is among the most unsettling articles that I’ve read regarding the aftermath of the attacks on New York and Washington, DC. Apparently, a wide range of Harvard Business School students now are reconsidering their careers. Some are choosing nonprofit…
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September 17, 2001
How Could This Happen?
Disbelief. Horror. Grief. Anger. These are just some of the emotions that have overtaken members of the HBS community since the terrorist tragedy on September 11. As the word spread on Tuesday, students left class to gather around television screens in Spangler and watch as two of the tallest buildings in the world crumbled to…
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September 17, 2001
Seeking Loved Ones, Seeking Answers
I emerged from my first class at 10 am on September 11th to hear a few classmates saying that two planes had crashed into the World Trade Center in New York a short while ago. The World Trade Center. New York. My first reaction was one of disbelief &- we New Yorkers tend to think…
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September 10, 2001
Religious, Partner Support Resources
Prayer in the HBS Chapel The Catholic Student Association & Harvard Christian Fellowship e-mailed the student body with the message that on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday “the chapel will be open for quiet mediation, prayer, and reflection between 3 and 5 pm. During these times, someone from either CSA or HCF will be in the…
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September 10, 2001
Employees Still Missing From WTC Firms
Many businesses located in and around the twin towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) employed HBS alumni. Several of those alumni are still unaccounted for. Some of the larger employers have posted information on their websites. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter reported that 3,500 people of their company were working in the WTC for the…
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September 10, 2001
Eyewitness Account
The Harbus spoke with Nikhil Bahel, an eyewitness to the tragedy in New York. Bahel, an Associate in the investment banking major Salomon Smith Barney was on his way to work, and his cab dropped him under the WTC minutes after the first impact had occurred. He recalls seeing the huge gaping hole. Bahel estimates…
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September 4, 2001
Hope for the Best
I live by the clich‚ “Hope for the best, prepare for the worst,” especially the latter part of that statement. So, on my way to Boston, I had imagined a campus full of suits walking around spewing financial jargon I wouldn’t understand, hissing at me as I naively blurt out “finance” with a long “i.”…
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April 9, 2001
New York Trek 2001
New York Trek 2001 attracted 125 students to Manhattan last Friday despite an utter downpour. Students took time out to immerse themselves in the latest developments in the high tech and entertainment industries. As opposed to some other treks where people visit multiple office locations, New York Trek centralized its daytime activities at the Sony…
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March 12, 2001
Recession Regression
Cheryl Alkon knew the job market was tight in 1992 when she graduated from college at the tail-end of the last real recession in the United States. But that didn’t make her six-month effort to find a job as a magazine writer any easier. “If someone was going to get a media job, I thought,…