Spring Break
I hate to state the obvious. But it is cold. Darn cold. It's all I can think about or talk about. I've consumed more Swiss Miss hot chocolate in the past week than I have in the past five years combined. I no longer race directly to my computer to check email when I walk in the front door; I march straight to the stove and put water on, mittens and all.
Over lunch this weekend, my fiancé asked me, "What's going on about the war on campus?" My first thought was, "There's a war on campus? Do they want to take Spangler?" Then I realized he meant the threat of war with Iraq. I struggled, and failed, to come up with a good reply.
Jean McCormick, HBS '88, defies many of the traditional female stereotypes. Most notably, she has a deep and enduring passion for sports despite never having excelled on the playing field. Research on how 'talking sports' affects women in business at Wellesley, her undergrad alma mater, culminated in a book entitled, "Talk Sports Like a Pro - 99 Secrets to Becoming a Sports Goddess.
Emily Levy (MBA '84) was working in a research laboratory at Yale in the early 1980s when she heard about a business called Genentech that had just gone public. "I thought, 'Wow, there's this whole industry of science meets business.' Maybe I could get into that if I knew the business part," said Levy, who decided to apply to HBS as "an experiment.
All eyes are on Iraq these days, but conventional wisdom holds it's just the first step of the Bush administration's larger push to gain hegemony over the international oil and gas industry. Two factors could stand in the way of the US grand plan though: Central Asia and Europe.
