Okay, let’s engage in a hypothetical:It’s a Friday night and you’re in a bar. It’s crowded. Very, very crowded. So crowded and noisy in fact that any attempt you’ve made at conversation has dissolved into a screaming match. By this point you’ve lost your voice and you’re at the brink of losing your sanity. So [...]
Online Dating: Fad, Farce, or Fabulous?
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Feb 082010
Cyberposium 15
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Jan 252010
Cyberposium 15 took center stage on Saturday, November 21, drawing a crowd of almost 700 students, professionals and tech enthusiasts. With more than 100 panelists and moderators, the conference, subtitled, “Navigating the Digital Storm,” attempted to address some of the quickly changing tides in technologies ranging from cloud computing to mobile to cleantech. The conference [...]
The Lagniappe: Lessons Learned
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Oct 132009
In late August of this year I was back in Minnesota, and over coffee with a close friend I confided that the first year out of college had been the absolute worst of my life. (Full disclosure: I’ve had a fairly wonderful time thus far, so that was a relative declaration.) It had nothing to [...]
How We Watch, Listen, and Read
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Feb 232009
Do we here at HBS tend to read more than other people? Do we spend less time watching TV? Do we spend more time online? Yes, yes, and yes. Many of us watched the CNBC special on HBS air this past December, and got a taste for how the media portrays the school. Personally, I [...]
Running the Numbers
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Feb 232009
63% of HBS students watch less than 1 hour of TV per day 70% of respondents get their news from online news services such as NY.com and CNN.com 43.4% of HBS students don’t subscribe to any magazines 33.6% of respondents spend 2-3 hours on the internet each day 72.4% of HBS students watch 0-1 movies [...]
The Future of Journalism
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Nov 192007
How can traditional news organizations compete with oceans of user-generated content and super-sophisticated search? Why pay for foreign news bureaus when consumers can simply visit local provider websites? Does the slow death of newspapers foreshadow the fate of journalism as we know it? Helen Boaden,a multi-award winning reporter and Director of BBC News, is the [...]
Men of Vision
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Nov 192007
At Cyberposium last weekend I had the pleasure of speaking with two very different men who both have very distinctive visions of the future. Ray Kurzweil is a futurist, inventor, entrepreneur and author who successfully predicted many of the trends of the last thirty years and has calculated that there is a good chance man [...]
HBS Meets Reality TV
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Sep 102007
Nearly every EC spent the summer immersed in an internship; only one spent it as a finalist on a reality TV show. Dave Moeller (OC), with MIT Ph.D Craig Forest, was selected from about 2,000 applicants to be the New York regional finalist on ABC’s American Inventor. Their invention? The Claw – a revolutionary bike [...]
Nov 202006
Want to win the HBS Energy Competition, or just want to do your daily do-good deed to save the environment? Here’s how you can: 1) Turn off your computer, lights, stereo, TV and other appliances when not in use. 2) Unplug adapters (like your cell phone charger and MP3 player) when not in use, as [...]
Letter to a Young RC – Section Love
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Sep 182006
In this series of Letter to a Young RC, Alejandro shares his thoughts on the true meaning and purpose behind the section experience at HBS. Two Fridays ago you had the chance to meet your old section. Several of you told me it was a great way to break the ice. Indeed, I think that [...]
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