Letter to the Editor Dear Harbus I’ve got a better name for the administration’s 2+2 program. Give Kellogg’s a call and see if you can use ‘Special K’. Allow me to explain. Current HBS students have no problem with you letting in 100 kids with no experience but please keep them away from us and [...]
2+2 Program: Have They Really Thought This Through?
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Oct 152007
Ladies, please.
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Apr 232007
On February 11th 2003, a group of female Harvard students apparently ‘dismantled’ a nine foot high snow penis built by fellow (presumably male) undergraduates outside the Tercentenary Theater. The story was later picked up by the press, eliciting comments from journals as highbrow as The Economist, from which the following quotes are taken: “It was [...]
HSBC MD Eichhorst Discusses Banking in China
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Apr 242006
Gordon Eichhorst is Head of Industrials and Technology Sector and Managing Director, Global Investment Banking, Asia-Pacific for HSBC. Prior to moving to Shanghai, Mr. Eichhorst worked for Morgan Stanley in London as head of the Technology Banking Group for Europe. He earned his MBA at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1997. [...]
MBA IT To the Rescue
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Feb 132006
Picture this scenario. You have a flight to catch in one hour. Next week is Hell Week and you have materials to print from the online Vault Guide to prepare for your banking interview. You quickly jog to the printer in Spangler, swipe your ID card and press print. Wait a second. What is this? [...]
“Training the Street” Comes to HBS
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Jan 302006
For all of those HBS students thinking about careers in banking or finance, the Finance Club and UBS arranged for a visit by “Training the Street” to help prepare students for the technical questions in interviews and also to prepare for the internship itself. Generously sponsored by UBS, the program’s cost to students was only [...]
Zoe Cruz Delivers Remarks at Alma Mater: Discusses Success, Adversity and Change at Morgan Stanley
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Nov 142005
Equipped with the disarming candor that has earned her the distinction of “Cruz Missile” among contemporaries, Morgan Stanley’s Acting President, Zoe Cruz (MBA ’82), had several pieces of wisdom to share with those contemplating their own forays into financial services as recruiting season officially kicks off. What you’re learning in LEAD matters, having fun in [...]
Top 10 Differences between Consulting and Banking
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Sep 122005
10. In consulting, your bed is in a hotel in smalltown America. In banking, your bed is under your desk. 9. In consulting, your vocabulary is excluded to words like “granularity,” “value-add,” and “traction.” In banking, your vocabulary consists of “31.45 billion,” “9.28 times EBITDA,” “10.77 times EBITDA,” and “comps universe.” 8. In consulting, you [...]
THE BURNING QUESTION
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Jan 242005
Welcome back to The Question. Not much has changed, except for my worm deck to skydeck relocation within Aldrich 10. Quick! Pop quiz!The approximate temperature in the Aldrich 10 skydeck is:a) Jamaica hotb) Africa hotc) The same temperature as Hell Yes, it’s warm, but I still love our old room. So let’s move on to [...]
To Work Or Not To Work?
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Jan 182005
To work or not to work? That is the question. Perhaps it was my first day here at HBS that I started to feel pressure to find a summer internship. My first suspicion that things were not looking good came at a career fair in September. Several of the companies canceled and left us staring [...]
Summer Job Reports
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Nov 222004
Company name: Corporate America Job title: Finance Intern Avg. hours per week: 40 Responsibilities: Starting right fielder for the Finance Gangstas softball team. Sometimes played left field if Joe was traveling. Also, I had to do some activity-based costing projects. Career plans: I want to return to Corporate America but I’m not sure about the [...]
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