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  • Hit the deck

    At HBS all courses are taught in tiered classrooms with U-shaped desks. A first-year class has five rows of these, which take on their own names in HBS slang. At the very top is the skydeck, whose vantage point allows…

  • Investiture

    Today marked the installation of Harvard University’s 28th president, Drew Gilpin Faust. (She was a professor of American history at Penn for a year while I was there, and I remember hearing about it when she was “poached” by Harvard…

  • No comment

    From a classmate: “We’re yet to do the things that will define us.”

  • Connection

    Over the last few days I’ve been fortunate to have some long and substantial discussions with classmates, both on campus and at the Christian Fellowship retreat in New Hampshire. Last night I was talking with a friend in a dormitory…

  • Red line

    These are some of the busiest days of my life that I can remember. A lot of us are experiencing utter exhaustion. Nevertheless things remain, interestingly, exhilarating.

  • Markers

    A few days ago HBS unveiled its Centennial Bell, a scaled-down replica of the new one which now resides in the cupola of Baker Library, itself replacing a bell which was sent back to its original home in a Russian…

  • More thoughts

    Lesson 25: If you structure the incentives right, people will pursue their personal motivations to the benefit of the overall firm. Lesson 26: Loading more costs into your inventory can affect any future writedowns, which affects expenses shown in a…

  • Masters class

    Last night our learning team had dinner with a new professor who will be teaching first year students in the second semester. He came from the banking world and joined academia relatively late, so he’s not from a typical background….

  • Another batch

    Lesson 17: The buyer isn’t always the one with the money. Lesson 18: Sometime there’s a tradeoff between having high machine utilization and maintaining low work-in-process inventories. Lesson 19: It’s fine to let your accounts receivable terms get extended, as…

  • Gobble

    There’s a turkey on campus. She (I assume this based on its size, but I’m no expert) can often be found wandering quite placidly around campus. I encountered her on my first or second day here, standing outside the doors…