Word: kuhne
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Some students had a very different view of what Bush’s seat indicated. Bush was “more of a class clown than a serious student,” remembers Kuhn, one of several classmates who used the term “class clown” to describe Bush...
...during his Business School days, Bush “dressed like a slob,” Kuhn says...
...Kuhn describes a section field trip to the General Electric plant in Lynn, Mass. “When we got there the executive who greeted us and gave us the tour said, ‘You guys really don’t look like HBS students.’” Then, indicating Bush, Kuhn recalls the manager saying, “That guy looks like someone who just came off the third shift.” However, the clothes belied a man who took many opportunities to lead his peers...
...responsibility to his roots in the academic business community. “I didn’t see that he was calling on MBA people for his cabinet, and I was very disappointed that he didn’t reach the academic community at all,” admits Kuhn, who is now a partner in a wholesale company in Connecticut...
...some ways a microcosm of the business school at the time. “He said that ‘There are no rules. You have to make your own way. No matter what people tell you, promises are not kept,’” says Kuhn. In Gormsen’s memory, “We all kind of went a little wild when Rudy was around...