On Friday, October 7, RCs gathered at Shad Hall to assemble circuit boards for a well-known TOM exercise that has become part of HBS tradition. Team spirit was all about as some groups went so far as to coordinate team uniforms. Here, a group works diligently on putting the final touches on one of many [...]
RCs Put TOM Learnings to the Test in Shad Hall Exercise
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Oct 112005
A Trip Down Memory Lane with Professor Warren McFarlan
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Dec 132004
On Wednesday, December 8, the students in the EC course Managing in the Information Age (MIA) threw a surprise farewell party for their instructor, Professor F. Warren McFarlan, the creator of the newest course on campus (MIA in its present form) and one of the most senior and distinguished faculty members at HBS. This term [...]
Escape to New York
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Oct 182004
“How was I assigned this particular section?” “If a cranberry bounces while TOM students are occupied with Shad exercises, is it really bouncing?” “Why must HBS blondes (especially the fake ones) do everything in packs of five?” Instead of wasting your time on these and other pointless RC-year ruminations, you should be sweating only one [...]
HBS Sniglets, A-Z
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Oct 122004
In an attempt to continue keeping HBS honest and grounded, The Harbus offers the following dictionary to describe the truisms of the HBS experience. Aldregs: The curiously awful coffee served by the carts in Aldrich Hall. Alohedge: A half-nod (or was it?) in the direction of someone you think you’ve met (but can’t be sure). [...]
News in Brief:
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Sep 202004
Resume Deadline Pushed Earlier With the economy recovering and a wave of recruiters eager to come to campus, Career Services asked all EC students to submit their full-time job search resumes on their second day back to campus. In addition, all RC students will be required to submit their full-time job search resumes sometime next [...]
Apr 262004
By Upon entering HBS, every student had a nervous anticipation about how they would measure up to the competition at this school. On a Friday afternoon in early September, the biggest fears of the new members of Section J were realized. When Old J completely crushed us in our first boat race we didn’t think [...]
My Action Plan for Humor
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Jan 122004
If there’s one thing I’ve learned at HBS, it’s the fundamental importance of a good action plan. Of course, a good action plan is supposed to break everything out into “short”, “medium”, and “long” terms, with detailed minute-by-minute timelines and full consideration of all possible contingencies, such as how competitor’s reactions and the sudden onset [...]
Shades of Gray
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Dec 082003
Why are companies willing to have their management flogged by a bunch of twenty-somethings who just yesterday learned that a channel is more than a television unit? The free advertising, of course. We all know that. But have you looked around and assessed the impact of this ploy on your life? Out of curiosity, and [...]
Oct 272003
(Morris Hall) Rather than let his TOM team down for the Shad Hall Exercise, RC Student Jason Hart made the difficult decision two weeks ago to skip his favorite uncle’s funeral in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.“This is the way my uncle would have wanted it,” said a distraught Hart. “He always said that when you [...]
Head of the Charles Part II
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Oct 272003
Last weekend the Head of the Charles took place. You probably knew that already though; it was certainly hard to miss the over enthusiastic parents and mass of fluorescent tops that went wandering down Memorial. But for those ostriches amongst us, they were rowers and a very big gathering took place. As a stranger in [...]
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