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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Each time you’re about to throw away an empty container — for ketchup, cereal, pickles, milk, macaroni, paper towels, dog food or whatever — you just pass its bar code under the scanner. With amazing speed and accuracy, the Ikan beeps, consults its online database of one million products, and displays the full name and […]
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As adults, we don’t enjoy being in the rain. We may say we enjoy the rain, but it is as a distant observer - we ourselves need to be warm, dry and inside to enjoy the cool, wet outside.
I really can’t think of a single time in my adult life […]
Paul Graham’s article about cities focuses on Cambridge, Silicon Valley and New York. Each city, according to Graham, sends a message:
Cambridge says “you should be smarter” - it is the city of intellect, the city of ideas.
Silicon Valley says “you should be more powerful” - it is the city of startups.
New York says “you should […]
Erik Stuart - wonderful friend and former colleague, logic personified, and master (or to be more exact, doctor) of all things economics - is blogging!
Erik is one of those rare guys with whom you can have an incredible discussion on any topic. He’s articulate, thoughtful and extremely insightful. He has the added advantage of being […]
Once our choice set has been expanded to include things that we never dreamed of that are gloriously better than what we have, it’s very tough for us to be content with the things that used to give us pleasure.
While the article is about real estate in Manhattan, the statement holds true for most things […]
A couple of articles recently addressed the issues of women choosing their mates.
From The Atlantic:
My advice is this: Settle! That’s right. Don’t worry about passion or intense connection. Don’t nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling “Bravo!” in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want […]
I’ve cleared up my subscriptions to online mailing lists considerably. But I have been unable to unsubscribe from four categories of email -
1. Hotel California - I get an email. I click on the link that says “unsubscribe” and I get to a page that offers me the option to subscribe, but not one to […]
On Wednesday, the Department of Education inaugurated cricket as its newest league sport, with about 600 high school students playing on 14 teams during a 12-game season. The first matches, held in Queens, featured teams from John Adams, Richmond Hill, Aviation and Newcomers High Schools. The Department of Education said New York is the […]
is proving to be a way to preserve my sanity in times of extreme stress and sleep deprivation.
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