Word: cliquey
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...advises companies - including some French multinationals - on how to deal with ethnic diversity in their workforce. "Going abroad was like an exorcism," he says bluntly. Jozan spent five years working in Germany after college before moving back to France - only to get a big shock; the place seemed cliquey, introspective and stuck in a rut. So he quickly left again, taking a career break to do an M.B.A. at the London Business School, which happens to be just down the road from Senni's basement office. He says he expects to stay on in London for work when he finishes...
...we’re being candid, what this really boils down to are the problems in Harvard’s overall social scene. When I arrived at Harvard, I remember having the feeling that I’d reverted to middle school. The place struck me as overwhelmingly cliquey, and final club types were hardly the worst of this—cliques seemed to exist according to race, party affiliation, and a laundry list of other characteristics...
...like the Internet in reverse." Dytham and partner Astrid Klein, who also run a Tokyo-based architecture firm together, devised the evenings in 2003 as a way of getting to know and share ideas with their professional peers. Three years later, and what at first seemed like a cliquey Tokyo phenomenon is now extending its reach as far afield as Shanghai, Vienna and Buenos Aires. One of the first cities to catch on was London. "We held our first two events in August last year," says Marcus Fairs, co-organizer of the London event and editor of Icon magazine. "Even...
...like the Internet in reverse." Dytham and partner Astrid Klein, who also run a Tokyo-based architecture firm together, devised the evenings in 2003 as a way of getting to know and share ideas with their professional peers. Three years later, and what at first seemed like a cliquey Tokyo phenomenon is now extending its reach as far afield as Shanghai, Vienna and Buenos Aires. One of the first cities to catch on was London. "We held our first two events in August last year," says Marcus Fairs, co-organizer of the London event and editor of Icon magazine. "Even...
While such statements make Lithgow sound like he was a pretentious theater kid, he makes a compelling and typically Harvardian argument for the merits of his attitude. He says theater at Harvard “was pretty cliquey. There were rival camps; there was ferocious competition for slots. That’s the terrain, but also, we were cutting our teeth. You learn a lot more from that...