Spring Break
An EC team recently flew the HBS flag high by achieving the third "Most Innovative Team in the World" award at the Thunderbird Innovation Challenge, held on November 20-22 at the Thunderbird campus. The team - all section-mates from OG - was comprised of Kevin Barhydt, Sam Clemens, Guillermo Silberman, Dan Stone, and David Tom.
The Volunteer Consulting Organization (VCO) provides HBS students with the opportunity to apply the skills they learn in the classroom to help non-profit organizations in the area. Last year, over 140 students teamed up to work with 35 organizations throughout the spring semester and similar numbers are expected this year.
On January 16th - 17th, the HBS campus came alive with over 500 participants from all over the world, who arrived to attend the Ninth Annual Cyberposium Conference focused on "harnessing technology's promise at Harvard Business School". Howard Charney of Cisco Systems opened the conference by speaking on "From Optimal to Integral, the Global Build-Out of the Internet", where he impressed the audience with his multimedia presentation on the technology of the past world and his predictions for the technology of the future.
"The President shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." - Article II, Sec. 3, U.S. Constitution o On Tuesday, Jan 20th, President George W.
Investors, economists, and stock market enthusiasts have long debated the existence of the January Effect in the capital markets. Is it real? And will it return? The historical tendency for stock prices to increase in January more than any in other month, an anomaly particularly evident in small cap stocks, has been attributed to year end tax selling, window-dressing by portfolio managers, and jubilant expectations for the New Year.
This is the second in a series of articles covering the HBS Annual Show 2004 (Show). As mentioned in the first article, the Show has become a time-honored tradition and an essential component of the HBS experience. Usually, the Show is a musical comedy and the characters are exaggerated HBS stereotypes like the overenthusiastic Baker Scholar, the overambitious investment banker and so on.
