No, my scientifically researched conclusion is unrelated to the fact I am single. When I started speaking to people for this article, I think they assumed that this would be a piece of investigative journalism and that, after turning up all the cobblestones on Spangler Lawn and searching every nook in Aldrich, I would emerge with the equivalent of a Victorian book on etiquette for courting at HBS. That is not so. This, at its heart, is personal. I started writing this article

I was recently at a dinner with an HBS alum who found it fascinating that I, unlike most of my peers, studied film as an undergrad at Columbia. “Did you get to make any films during your time there?” he asked. “Actually, Columbia’s film program is much more theory-based, so I spent most of my time learning about the history and cultural significance of film,” I replied. “Like an English major, but instead of books, you’re analyzing movies.” I could see the wheels turning in h

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When Big Sugar bore the arms of empire and why we may, too. We Americans love democracy. Our government has long paid more than lip service to the ideas of Locke and Lincoln. As the world’s foremost republic, we have been — we are — unwilling to acknowledge any imperial kinship with the Empire we divorced. America, nonetheless, shares more than language and a history with Britain. She shares the same lover: big business, who could not get enough of this affair. Companies went