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...break for lunch. We usually recommend the best bacon cheeseburger in the square, the “Alan Dershowitz” at Bartley’s. Before breaking bread, we make sure to lead the group in a good ol’-fashioned Harvard prayer, so we face the B-school and genuflect five times to the gods of mammon and usury...
While gift receipts to Harvard Business School in 2006 totaled only $57 million—a 54 percent decline from the previous year, when the final year of a capital campaign helped to boost the B-School bounty—Harvard said that other parts of the University “more than offset” the decline. Gifts to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences rose 15 percent...
...movie theater is the perfect place for a first date. Movies are great because both of you can enjoy yourselves without even talking to each other, thereby reducing the chances that you will screw up. This is a well-known risk management technique they teach over at the B-School. Also, make sure to ask her if she wants any popcorn or candy from the concession stand. She will say no, because girls always say no, but get her something anyway—she really does want some and will just end up eating all of your popcorn...
...animals,” who rarely go out. Wei says that most people start out as bar-hopping socialites but eventually find themselves spending more and more time in Baker Library.But the ever-present divide between work and play isn’t all that clear cut at the B-school, where, to the chagrin of some professors, socializing often takes precedence over school work. Here, happy hours aren’t a diversion, but part of the all-important job search, where HBS students learn the art of schmoozing that they see as vital to their careers.GETTING IT DONE...
Students say figuring out the answer forces them to define their priorities in a way no other B-school course does. They are asked to keep a daily journal and attend an off-site retreat. Required reading ranges from classics like Creativity in Business to spiritual travelogues like A Search in Secret India. In one exercise, students spend an hour each day for a week helping someone else without expecting anything in return...