The March 2008 edition of the HBS Bulletin had a little piece about the first women MBA students.
“A ‘Daring Exper-iment’: Harvard and Busi-ness Education for Women, 1937–1970,” tells the story of how coeducation at HBS evolved from an eleven-month certificate program in “personnel administration” at Radcliffe College (1937–1945), to the Management Training Program (1946–1955), to […]
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Then came a crucial moment: the second scavenger-hunt clue was to either 1) get a $500 bill from Monopoly, or 2) get a picture of ten people within arms-reach of an ad for Grand Theft Auto IV. Chris knew of a toy store about a half-block off our path; I rushed in and was […]
Bloody brilliant.
Hat tip: striker
I don’t think I’ve quite seen this before - some guy takes a Tamil song and does a transliteration - the subtitles are not the meaning of the song, but how it sounds to him in English. OMG!! Too funny.
I speak Tamil, so not all of it sounds close, but still worth watching… Thanks […]
There has been a lot of press about Steve Jobs’ inspirational “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish” speech at Stanford’s Commencement in 2005. Deservedly so.
I think Bill Gates delivered a very different and equally brilliant speech at Harvard’s 2007 Commencement. I believe Bill Gates will make history outside of technology — The Gates Foundation’s focus on eradicating […]
The New York Times has a very interesting article about the current debate around when kids should start kindergarten. I was very surprised to learn that parents “redshirt” or hold back a child a year
the term, borrowed from sports, describes students held out for a year by their parents so that they will be older, […]
I’ve talked about copyright before. I believe the extension of the life of copyright is a bad thing for artists/creators. If that sounds counterintuitive, you should read the articles below…
– Mark Helprin, a fellow at the Claremont Institute, argues that copyright should be perpetual! He equates copyright ownership with that of land ownership (or any […]
From the new Sequoia-funded site.
Just watch it - very funny. I think the “actress” is so adorable!
The Landlord
In the fight for the world’s population, the CEOs (heads/pontiffs) of major religions need to listen to the market in order to win the greatest number of customers (practitioners/believers/converts). It appears that the Catholic Church understands the business quite well -
In the 5th century, St. Augustine declared that all unbaptized babies went to hell upon […]
Want to know male/female ratio of a city before you move there? Want to know the income levels, racial composition or educational levels of any part of the US? Well, you can find out all that and more on Social Explorer, a site that maps the demographic data of the US in fascinating detail.
All based […]
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