Spring Break
Students and art aficionados gathered for the HBS Student Art Show last Wednesday in the Spangler Williams Room. The Show was organized by the Student Association and the Art Appreciation Society. Above, attendees take a close look at a student's work on display.
It wasn't your ordinary pre-book-signing pep rally. Nor was it your typical Leadership and Values Forum inspirational speaker event. In Burden Auditorium last Tuesday, April 12th, over 600 students gathered to hear former GE Chairman and CEO Jack Welch share his thoughts on the evolution of the general manager, leadership, and his new book, Winning.
If you were one of the hundreds who attended Jack Welch's speech last week, maybe you noticed something funny about good old Burden Auditorium. The normally barren stage had been replaced by big black curtains, colored flood lights, and tape on the floor denoting marks.
The HOTS made an appearance last week at the HBS Student Art Show, singing a number of hit tunes. Here, Francis Idehen (NA) takes the lead. The group was followed soon thereafter by a charity auction for tsunami relief and rehabilitation.
The HBS administration has decided not to offer Consumer Marketing next year - a move which have disappointed those RC students hoping to enroll in the course. Evidently, the course's popular professor has earned a year of sabbatical that spans the upcoming fall term.
The 3rd annual Marketing conference was held last weekend on the Harvard Business School campus, attracting approximately 300 MBA students, professionals, executives and scholars. This year's theme was "Breakthrough Brands: Bring on the Revolution", which emphasized the importance of evolution and innovation in the future of marketing.
Marni Weil is a member of one of this year's Harbus Foundation Venture Philanthropy Teams. Come learn more about HBS' Harbus Foundation and meet student-selected grant awardees at a celebration on Wednesday, April 20th from 5:15 pm to 6:15pm in the Spangler Meredith Room.
Over 25 people self-selected themselves for the 2005 HBS Public Speaking competition. The contestants were then narrowed down to eight finalists through a demanding impromptu speaking competition in which contestants were randomly assigned a challenging speaking situation with only three minutes to prepare a two- to three-minute speech.
It all started with a Fin 1 case on acid rains. The case explained how Southern Company, a coal power plant operator acquired sulfur dioxide (So2) allowances to offset its polluting emissions. Inspired by the story, NI decided to apply the same market mechanisms to offset its emissions of CO2, one of the main greenhouse gases (gases responsible for global warming).
