What they say about Seattle is true - in the summer, it’s one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever lived in. The weather is a perfect sunny 25 degrees almost every day, and within less than 100km from downtown there are lakes, waterfalls, glaciers and mountains (and good sushi restaurants). Too bad it’s like that only for the summer… You can skip to the end of the post to see some pictures.

We start second year at HBS after labor day weekend (first week of September). I’m excited about the second year, it’s supposed to be much better - at least easier - than the first one. Here are some of the differences between them:

• Choosing courses: We get to choose our courses this year (or in other words, we get to choose whether we want to get up for the 8:30 classes or focus more on the 11:40 ones). I just received my schedule this week and it looks like I’m going to do an interesting mix of marketing, strategy, technology and entrepreneurship. I’ll write more about the specific courses once they’re final - we can request changes until the end of the first week of classes.
• Studying with new people: As a result of choosing our own courses, we take our classes with different people from the 900-students class and not with the same 90 people who composed our first year section. True, my awesome section will always be dear to me, but I sure am happy to study with other people for a change - by the end of last year I knew what everyone was going to say the second they started making their comment (sometimes even before).
• Field studies: More on the academic side, in addition to courses we can also choose to do a “field study” or an “individual student research” - research that a student or a team does with a professor about a specific topic that interests them, where the end result is a case (yes, we can write HBS cases) or a paper. I have a couple of ideas for these, we’ll see how it goes. We can also cross-register to other schools in Harvard University or to courses at MIT Sloan, and a few other schools I think. I’m considering doing that too, though I’m sure that by November-December (not to mention February), when I need to commute across the river in -10 degrees, I’ll be regretting this dearly.
• Recruiting: Recruiting for full-time positions starts almost the second we get back to school, as opposed to first year when it started mid-November. Which means we already had to update our resumes for HBS resume book, and - damn - start thinking about what we want to do when we grow up (and unfortunately “going to business school” isn’t applicable anymore).

Anyway, there’s still tons of time till all of this begins (last week of work, a week in Maui - yes!, going back to Boston), so in the meanwhile here are a few more photos from my Seattle experience:

See the rest here: http://computersexy.com/gallery/v/SeattleSummer_07-082008/

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Since it was my first time in Canada, here are my impressions:

Good things about Canada and Vancouver:

• It’s very green and full of trees.
• Vancouver is on the waterfront, like Seattle, and has a lot of nice viewpoints to the water and the city.
• 1 Canadian dollar = 0.98 US dollars, so I didn’t have to convert prices :) (on the other hand, I heard that it used to be 1 Canadian dollar = 0.5 US dollars, which means that everything in Canada is much more expensive to Americans now)
• Like the rest of the sane world, they use the metric system! With meters! And Celsius! And Km/h! Lots of fun.

Less good things:

• The weather sucks, just like in Seattle. Beginning of July and it was cloudy and rainy for the majority of the weekend, as you’ll see in the photos. It wasn’t cold and it was sunny in the park, so it wasn’t too bad, but still.
• Waiting 2 hours in border control isn’t fun.
• The 30 km from the border to Vancouver is full of people raising cows and smell like that, too.
• It’s kinda exactly like the US…

Vancouver is full of glass buildings - I think they are both residential and office buildings. At the beginning it looked very strange, but then I formed a theory - since they get so little sun, they want to maximize the amount of sun in their home… In Israel you’d be boiling inside one of these buildings in May, and in Vancouver it’s July and still raining, so glass buildings kind of make sense.

Here are a couple of examples:

I really liked Stanley park, it’s huge, really close to the water and full of trees, grass, flowers, and Indian (Native Americans) totems:

You can see more photos here: http://www.computersexy.com/gallery/v/Vancouver_Canada_072008/

When I was in Vancouver I took a picture of the local McDonalds, I have this hobby of taking photos of McDonalds in different places around the world. So to celebrate the revival of my photo gallery, here’s an album with all of my McDonalds pictures (including the one from Canada).

My internship’s going well, thanks for asking. I’m not writing about it here since I don’t think it’s really appropriate, but I’m almost half way through. On the unavoidable HBS front, these days we’re finalizing our selection of courses for next year. First year courses were all mandatory and dictated by school, and this year we finally get to choose what we want to study, and maybe more importantly - when we want to study (which probably means not a lot of 8:40am courses for me). We don’t have “majors” or “concentrations” at HBS, but the courses I chose revolve around technology, marketing, strategy and entrepreneurship. Should be interesting. If you’re interested in learning more about second year courses at HBS, you can read about them here. We also have the opportunity to cross-register to courses at other schools - other Harvard schools or MIT Sloan school, and I’ll try to do this, even though with the Boston weather it might prove challenging.

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So with that, here’s what I’ve been doing in the last week:

Last weekend was the longest day of the year, and Fremont, Seattle’s strangest neighborhood (and it’s a tough competition), threw the Fremont Solstice Fair. I only went on Sunday, so I didn’t get to see the Nudist Club riding bicycles (seriously), but even so it was one of the coolest fairs I’ve ever been too. I especially liked the Art Cars exhibition. Check out the (tons of) photos here: http://www.computersexy.com/gallery/v/Seattle-FremontSolsticeFair_062008/

There are lots of them so be sure to go through all the pages. Here’s one of my favorites, a car covered with old floppy disks and keyboard keys:

Then this Saturday we had a picnic in Seattle’s Olympic Sculpture Park. This weekend was just beautiful, with perfect weather - even a bit too warm (almost 30 degrees).

Here’s a photo from the park, with the lake and the mountains in the background:

More photos here: http://www.computersexy.com/gallery/v/Seattle-OlympicSculpturePark_062008/

And yesterday - Sunday - we went hiking in a place called Rattlesnake Mountain. It’s pretty amazing - when you drive a car, the minute you leave downtown Seattle you’re already in green, beautiful areas, and the place we went to was only half an hour drive from downtown. The “value for money” of this hike was excellent - less than an hour hike and amazing views. At the bottom of the mountain, after going down, there was a fresh water lake and we went in for a swim… it’s chilly at first but you get used to it really fast and it’s so much fun!

The downside of the trip was that the 5 other people who hiked with me were Olympic-level hikers (or at least so it seemed) and set a really fast pace for hiking up! At times I was happy they didn’t know Hebrew as I was cursing them under my breath (obviously, since I wasn’t capable of speaking - had to concentrate on breathing)

But after reaching the top it was all forgotten… I’m ready for my next hike - hopefully with a different group of people :)

Here are a couple of photos:

And see more photos here: http://www.computersexy.com/gallery/v/RattlesnakeMountain_Seattle_062008/

And since the photo gallery’s working again, I added an album with photos from the Israel Trek I wrote about in a previous post - here’s the gallery: http://www.computersexy.com/gallery/v/IsraelTrek_052008/

I bought a pretty good book about Seattle and the area last week, and it said something that summarized Seattle very well. It was something along the lines of “Seattle is very liberal, so the 40 year old woman with the green hair sitting next to you in the neighborhood cafe may well be a software developer in Microsoft”.

I definitely agree with the green hair part, not so sure about Microsoft yet.

:)

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At any rate, this is where I’m going to be for the summer. Landed two days ago (still ridiculously jetlagged) and going to be here till the end of August for my summer internship in a large technology company that sells stuff online.

The same technology company was also nice enough to set me (and the other interns) up in a great apartment complex right in downtown Seattle: Harbor Steps. I think the location couldn’t have been better - 2 minutes walk from Pike Place Market, Seattle Art Museum across the street, 5 minutes walk from the shopping district and tons of restaurants, coffee shops, art galleries and whatnot literally downstairs. Not to mention the waterfront being 2 minutes away (that’s why it’s called Harbor Steps…). I can almost say it’s better than where I used to live in Tel Aviv…

The apartment I have is a fully-furnished one bedroom, which means that when I got here on Saturday this is what welcomed me:

Kitchen + living room:

Living room:

bedroom:

Garden: (well, not really)

My balcony:

I’m on the 15th floor, but apparently it’s not very high compared to everything else here :)

After being here for less than two days, here are my educated observations so far:

Good things about Seattle:

• I order groceries online from Safeway.com, and they have Bamba and Bisly! (they’re also 20% cheaper than peapod.com, which I use in Boston)
• Tons of places with good coffee. Trivia fact of the day: the first Startbucks store was opened in Seattle, in Pike Place Market, in 1971. There’s also “Seattle’s Best Coffee”, another national coffee chain with pretty good coffee. Another fact: Seattle is also nicknamed “Coffee Town”.
• The sun sets around 9-9:30pm. Should be even 10pm later this summer.

Bad things about Seattle:

• The weather is still not as warm as I expected it to be… it’s in the low 20s. It’s supposed to warm up by July, if not I’ll have to buy myself more winter clothes :)

And the HBS angle: there are something like 10 HBS interns in Seattle this fall, most living in Harbor Steps as well, making it a big nice Kibbutz. This Wednesday we have a reception hosted by the HBS Career Services Office, and of course there’s the inevitable Facebook group keeping all of us connected. So you can’t run away from HBS, even in Seattle.

In reality all the MBA interns in Seattle are pretty well connected and I think I’ll be getting to know a lot of new people this summer, which is nice. Even this Saturday we already have an activity organized by Microsoft for all the Seattle MBA interns - it’s a community service event involving some sort of gardening… oh well.

More next time. In the meanwhile I’m going to fight off my nasty jetlag by… sleeping :)

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HBS Israel Trek
In what is now a 3-year-old tradition at HBS, the Israeli first year students (all five of us) organized and executed a 10-days trip to Israel for a group of 80 HBS students.

Organizing
We started working on the trek almost at the beginning of the year. The Israeli second year students, who organized a very similar trek last year, helped us a lot along the way. We divided work between us with me being the “trek president” (=the role that nobody else wanted to take), being responsible for overall coordination and communication with the travel agent we worked with in Israel.
The Israel Trek has traditionally enjoyed very high popularity among HBS students, and this year, in a revolutionary decision (yeah!), we decided to double the number of participants in the trek from 40 to 80. After giving an overview presentation about the trek in February, students registered online to the trek at a specific time, on a “first come first serve” basis – meaning that out of the 150 people who registered, we took the first 80. These 80 registered within the first 5 seconds (!) of the registration period… Naturally, by the time the trek began some people cancelled their registration and we replaced them with people from the “waiting list”. The 80 students who came formed a very diverse group, with Jews, Muslim, Christians, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, North- and Latin-Americans, French, Italian, Pakistani, you name it…

While communicating with the participating students, collecting money and answering gazillion questions, we were simultaneously working on the trek’s schedule, arranging dinners in fancy restaurants and finding interesting speakers from the business and political arenas. We were also printing a 50-pages “Travelers Guide”, preparing hats in Israel, buying gifts and many other tasks. It was *a lot* of preparation, but most of it was fun.

Executing
On May 24th the trek started in Tel Aviv, with an awesome “kick off barbecue” somewhere along the Yarkon River. From then, in 9 hectic days, we:

• Toured Tel Aviv and Jaffa
• Visited an air force base
• Met Dr. Orna Berry, former Chief Scientist of Israel and one of the founders of Israel’s venture capital industry
• Visited the Holocaust Museum (Yad Vashem) in Jerusalem
• Toured Jerusalem
• Met Efraim Halevy, former head of the Mossad (Israel’s “CIA” or “MI6″)
• Visited the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Visited Masada
• Bathed (or rather floated) in the Dead Sea
• Spent two relaxing days in Eilat
• Visited the Baha’i Gardens in Haifa
• Visited Nazareth
• Kayaked in the Jordan River
• Visited the Sea of Galilee
• Visited Iskar facilities in Tefen
• And made it back to Tel Aviv…

As an organizer, this was a very stressful, even nerve-wrecking experience at times. Just think about being responsible for 80 people, not to mention making sure they actually enjoy themselves… thankfully we had two good guides, one on each bus, and great cooperation from everyone involved. According to everyone, the trek went extremely well – and not to blow our own horn, here’s some of the feedback we’ve been getting since the end of the trek:

“I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for organizing the Israel Trek—you did a great job. It was exceptionally well coordinated and incredibly fun. At many times throughout the trip I found myself impressed by the fluidity with which we moved 80 people from place to place, often balancing the “fun” and the “learning” in perfect order. I’m sure it took significant time from all of you over the last several months. Please know that it was noticed, and very much appreciated, by the rest of us.”

“Quick note to thank you very much for the trip! Besides everything everyone has said on how well organized and how much everyone enjoyed it, I wanted to thank you as a Jew. Projects like this, (& branding efforts of the MFA, etc) are the best justice that can be done to Jews inside and outside of Israel. It was really amazing to see the change in the perception people had of us and our country.”

My photo gallery isn’t functioning for some unknown reason, so until it’s back here are a few representative photos:

Listening to the guide in Jerusalem:

Section photo, overlooking Jerusalem:

Modeling Trek hats in Masada:

Section people floating in the Dead Sea:

Group photo at Iskar facilities in Tefen:

To summarize, planning and doing this trek has been one of the most special experiences of my first year at HBS. It made a lot of theoretical things I learned at school this year very real and practical: I learned a ton of leadership lessons by trying to manage a team of very opinionated Israeli students, a marketing lesson by seeing how people’s opinions about Israel change 180 degrees as a result of the trek, and a macro economics lesson by meeting and visiting some of the most interesting companies and business leaders in Israel – not to mention watching the US Dollar being ridiculously devalued against the Israeli Shekel in the last year, making the trek 20% more expensive…
The thing I liked most about the trek is hearing how many people really loved the country and plan to come back or recommend their friends / family to come – it’s great to know that now we’ll have 80 “ambassadors” of Israel scattered all over the world, with many of them in senior business and political positions in the future. Israel could definitely use such friends…

A few words about HBS treks
Traveling is a major part in the life of an HBS student. Many students organize trips to their home countries, often mixing tourism, business and politics, in a similar way we did in the Israel Trek. Other students just go somewhere with a group of friends, for fun (like my section did over spring break when we went to Mexico). The school also organizes trips – in the form of immersions or career treks – I participated in the Las Vegas Trek and the WesTrek. Unlike other business schools, in HBS you can’t do an exchange semester somewhere abroad, so at least the plethora of trips / treks / immersions etc. gives you the possibility to get your passports stamped rather frequently. And of course, learn about business, culture and people in different countries, as appropriate to the global business leaders we’re going to be (rrright).

(* Live in Beit Shemesh, high quality Israeli music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZwgOxFeZ8k)

UPDATE: my gallery is alive again, so here are more photos: http://www.computersexy.com/gallery/v/IsraelTrek_052008/

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I’m flying tomorrow with some mixed emotions - but mostly happy. It’s been a great year, I had lots of fun, but it wasn’t always the easiest. I’m looking forward to almost a month in Israel with my family, friends, and some HBS friends (more about that in the next post), and to the rest of my summer in Seattle.

But I want to dedicate this post to something else…

I haven’t written much about my HBS section in the blog. I wrote a bit about some amazing things we’ve been doing throughout the year, but didn’t tell you much about The Section Experience. So here goes…

HBS has one of the largest MBA programs - 900 students. To reasonably manage a class size this big and to enable students to get to know some of their classmate more deeply, the class is divided into 10 sections, 90 students each. The section’s diversity represents HBS diversity, and is supposed to be an “HBS microcosm” and include students from different countries and professional backgrounds.

The section spends the entire first year together - in the same classroom, seating in the same assigned seats (which change once, after the first semester). We all study the same 11 mandatory first year courses, with the professors coming to our classroom.

More importantly (coz we all know we’re not here for the courses ;)), the section is the immediate social environment of each student throughout the first year. At the beginning of the year, the section elects about 10 “officers” or “representatives” that handle different aspects of section life - from athletics through budget to academics. One of the more important roles is that of the “Social Chair” - usually done by two people, who organize tons of social activities: from the more “formal” HBS events like Holidazzle, Newport Ball, Priscilla, Section Drinks, to specific section events like end-year dinner, trips, spring break vacations and lots and lots of other stuff.

So you can imagine that if you let yourself, you can really engage in this intense section experience and form a lot of friendships, and just have a good time… Being an Israeli and just who I am in general, I was very skeptical at first of what the “HBS survival guide” described as “Section Love”. Honestly, I thought it’s one of these things Americans do and get over-excited about, and that whatever friendships are created must be superficial and calculated.

BUT, I was very fortunate to be randomly assigned to a truly great section. Maybe every section feels it’s good, but I know that some sections are better than others in the way they get along with each other and feel about themselves as a section. And I honestly believe our section is the best! :)

During lunchtime sometime this week we had lunch in section and anyone who wanted to said a few words about his / her experience this year. At first I thought I wouldn’t talk, I’m usually not into these self-reflectional bla-bla things, but as people were saying really interesting things I realized I have my own things I’d like to say.

So here’s roughly what I said to the section -

“When I first got here I thought - these Americans… they look a bit snobbish. I’m not sure they’ll like me. I felt different from everyone - I mean, everyone’s different, but still I have some objective parameters that make me more different than most. And still, today I feel very comfortable and included within the section. I feel people like me, respect me, and listen to me. And that’s really important to me and make me feel good. And it’s not just me, I think it’s the same with everyone else in the section. And I’m usually not a sentimental person!

“Everyone has been saying that ‘this has been their best year ever’. Well, it wasn’t my best year ever. It was a really hard year. It’s hard to be alone here, it’s hard to study in English, not to understand anything in finance, and a host of other things. At the beginning of the year I used to go to Section Drinks every Wednesday, and sometimes before going I didn’t feel like it, and was thinking to myself ‘it’s too late, it’s too cold’. But every time I did go, I had a fantastic time, and told myself I should be doing this more because these were really things I enjoyed. Sometimes it was the only thing I enjoyed on that particular day.

“I have a blog in which I write my HBS experience, and sometime I write about the amazing things we do, and I always feel like I’m ’showing off’ with the section… like the time we all dressed Black & White for McFarlan…

“And just one more thing - the section isn’t perfect, at least not for me. There are some things that could be improved. But that’s good, because sometimes it’s also fun to complain.”

:)

And a representative picture:

[story to be explained in one of my next posts]

Love you section! Hope everyone’s already back home from dancing on the tables after classes finished today ;)

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Number of visits: 12,441

Absolute unique visitors: 6,819 people, coming from 107 countries.

Number of page views: 35,606

Average time on site: 3:03 minutes

Countries where most people are coming from - pretty expected (except for United Arab Emirates!):

But check out this table - showing the countries who spend the longest time on the site:

The one thing common to all of these countries?

I haven’t been to any of them!

How do people reach the site? many reach it directly or via mail subscription (top-right corner to join my exclusive list of 40 subscribers). But a quarter arrives via Google search, which brings me to my favorite part -

Amusing Google Search keywords for reaching the blog! (and my supposedly amusing thoughts about them)

“best looking” mba students - definitely at HBS. Especially the Israeli girls.

fun at hbs - does not exist.

how to get into hbs - by reading my blog, of course. Donations are also welcome.

university cocktail party networking etiquette - that’s definitely what you’re going to find in this blog.

hbs classroom pictures - this one is not very amusing, but the funny thing is that 26 different people reached the blog after searching for this phrase! What is it that makes HBS classroom so fascinating? Anyways, to satisfy popular demand, there’s a photo in this post.

a pleasure talking to you - time to shut down the computer and get a life.

“columbia business school” and “as good as” and “hbs” - hmm… using And in a Google search isn’t effective.

“harvard business school” turkey blog - I know he has a Facebook profile, but our turkey has a blog now???

interviews aren’t easy - you got that one right.

mathematical models of risk management - Google sure does a terrible job if you get my blog when you search for that.

“case study handbook” free pdf - nice try, buddy. But you can buy it here.

zebra view - go McFarlan!

Love you all! Thank you so much for reading my nonsense this year!

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Some background - Mr. Brenneman is currently CEO of TurnWorks, a private equity firm specialized in turning around troubled firms, and president and CEO of Quiznos Sub (sister - this one’s for you :)). He’s also on the board of Home Depot. You could say he specializes in turning around distressed companies - he was the CEO of PwC Consulting, CEO of Burger King and President & COO of Continental Airlines and helped “reviving” them.
I first read about him in the book From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental’s Remarkable Comeback, by Gordon Bethune. Quick sidetrack - I haven’t read the entire book yet, but it’s really good. Gordon Bethune was the CEO of Continental at the time of the ‘94 turnaround, and is a very compelling storyteller, if not the most modest one (just look at his photo on the book cover…). Greg Brenneman was the President and COO of Continental during that time and devised its strategic plan together with Bethune. It’s funny, in the book Bethune seems very enthusiastic about Brenneman, and pretty much describes them as equal partners in the success of the turnaround. During in his talk at HBS, on the other hand, Brenneman hardly mentioned Bethune while talking about Continental…

(note - everything here is naturally based on my memory and my understanding of Brenneman’s talk, and should not be regarded as the Absolute Truth… my English isn’t very good anyway, as you know)

In his talk Brenneman shared with us a lot of funny war stories (Morak…) about all the companies he heroically saved, as well as some “life lessons”. Here are some interesting points:

• Turnaround is like a constant HBS Cold Call. You need to find out quickly what are the value drivers (levers) to pull. I think that what you’re learning at HBS is critical - you have to be able to analyze situations quickly.
• After analyzing have a 1-page plan consisting of: product plan, financial plan, people plan and marketing plan. Focus on a few key objectives.
• Communicate, Communicate, Communicate. You get tired of telling the same stories all the time, but you have to do it. I had the “Friday Voice Mail” - 7-10 minutes message to all employees about what’s been done for the past week.
• Treat everybody with dignity and respect. Wipe out angry emails, they don’t do any good.
• Related to that, I often gave equity / profit sharing to all employees in the companies I managed. Creating incentives that align everyone is important.
• People who brought the company into trouble are almost never the people who’ll save it. That’s why I usually fire the majority of the existing management. In turnarounds time is often scarce so you don’t have time to coach people until they get better. I find new people to replace them through my network.
• Related to that, my biggest mistake may be not getting rid of people fast enough - especially people I brought in and thought that if I’d work with them a bit longer they would improve, but it doesn’t work like that.
• My biggest learning is that you work with people. I mellowed down over the years, running over less people.
• Always try to leave a team better than you when you leave. First thing I do is try to find out who’s going to run the place when I leave.
• Give the team the credit. Give the credit to someone else, not to you - people know anyway you’re doing a good job.
• Focus on your family, friends and whatever other interests you have. Continue thinking about how to give back to community.
• I always work in partnership - I’m afraid of people who are CEO, President and Chairman at the same time. I learn from other people.

My thoughts: Brenneman definitely seems like an extremely competent business leader. He also seemed honest and fair with regards to the people he had worked with. However it was a bit scary at times to see him broadly smiling when he was telling us about firing 90% of the management of the company and half the employees to achieve cost reduction and to turn the company around. Don’t think I would have been happy to do this kind of work, even if it involves making tons of money and knowing all the important people.

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To the blog!

(almost) Exactly one year ago I published my first post, the first in the amazing HBS Essay Analysis series. Ever since I wrote 55 posts - not bad for a full-time first-year MBA student. Recently I created a page linking to my best posts - check it out.

With my Finance final coming up this Friday, I don’t have a lot of time for tons of incredible blog statistics (did you know someone reached the blog after googling “food hbs admit weekend”?), but here’s an interesting map showing where my visitors are coming from:

Till next time, cheers from crazily-raining Boston. Can’t wait to go back home. :)

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After endlessly complaining in my last post about the foul weather here, we had a few amazing sunny days of more than 15 degrees and the forecast for the rest of the week is sunny, with temperatures well above 10 degrees. The trees finally start to go out of their naked cemetery mode and there are even birds here. And they’re chirping.

Conclusion? complaining works!

On the other hand, it’s Boston, so on the very same sunny day of >20 degrees, at around 4pm there was a crazy thunderstorm, complete with lightning, thunder and rain. However it was one of these lucky days when the storm started exactly 5 minutes after I returned home from walking around and taking photos:

bird, chirping:

Brattle St., a really nice street:

HBS campus: (finally in bloom)

Mt. Auburn Cemetery:

Harvard Square was full of people: (or as we say in Hebrew, all the mice came out of their holes)

And the unavoidable thunderstorm, on the very same day:

You can see more photos here.

Presents!

It’s so nice to receive an unexpected package in the mail and find out it’s a gift from your summer employer, consisting of the following three books and a note saying “we’re so excited to you have you join us this summer!” Well, I’m excited too, and not only because of the present (though it helps).

The Secret Life of Bees / Sue Monk Kidd

Love in the Time of Cholera / Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A Thousand Splendid Suns / Khaled Hosseini

Don’t know if I ever wrote about it here, but I really love reading, and these books are an excellent excuse to read something that is not business-school related, something I’ve been doing lately but feeling guilty about. :)

And if you’re into books (of a somewhat different nature though), check out my post What do HBS Students Read with fascinating recommendations for business and management books.

And to Hebrew readers, here’s a somewhat-interesting-but-full-of-inaccuracies article in The Marker about Harvard Business School, in light of the 100 years celebration, with focus - of course - on the Israeli angle. It’s an interesting read even though with the percentage of inaccurate facts there it made me doubt everything else I read in The Marker - and I’m talking about facts that are pretty easy to find out like the number of students in class, tuition cost, number of Israeli professors, number of Israeli students etc. Let’s just say I wouldn’t invest in the stock market based on data from The Marker…

Happy Passover!

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