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Harvard Business School

also referred to as: hbs

19 statements across 13 episodes · 4 bullish · 5 bearish · 12 people on the record · first statement Apr 13, 2017 by Andre Perold · said 194 times in 67 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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2026 14 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
2025 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2024 21 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
2023 24 mentions in 6 episodes 4 per episode
2022 11 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
2021 32 mentions in 10 episodes 3 per episode
2020 11 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
2019 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
2018 18 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
2017 50 mentions in 7 episodes 7 per episode

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Everything said about Harvard Business School, oldest first

Apr 13, 2017 neutral
Disclosure
Perold taught himself investing after HBS permitted him to teach the subject
“I was fascinated by investing and asked if they let me teach something I didn't know anything about, and they did, and I taught myself.”
Andre Perold Apr 13, 2017 ▶ 12:15 André Perold – Academic Practitioner (Capital Allocators, EP.02)
Apr 13, 2017 positive
Insight
Perold: Top HBS students prioritized collaborative learning over scoring points
“The good students were ones that moved the ball in the conversation, that they weren't just trying to make a point. They would understand what we were all struggling with, and would help us along. Even good didn't mean you knew what was going on, but just bein…”
Andre Perold Apr 13, 2017 ▶ 13:11 André Perold – Academic Practitioner (Capital Allocators, EP.02)
May 22, 2017
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ellis: Swensen initially opposed Yale Endowment staff leaving for business school
“Particularly glad that you did go, because I know David had some reservations in those days. He's modified his views since then.”
Charlie Ellis May 22, 2017 ▶ 8:33 Charley Ellis – Multiple Ways to Win (Capital Allocators, EP.08)
Jul 24, 2017 negative
Opinion
DeLong: HBS Students Are Very Confident but Not Particularly Courageous
“I think my HBS students, unfortunately, are very confident, but not particularly courageous, and there's a huge difference.”
Tom DeLong Jul 24, 2017 ▶ 41:34 Thomas DeLong – Authentic Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.18)
Jul 24, 2017 negative
Insight
DeLong: High achievers are addicted to image management over essence
“So we want you to move from image managing to essence managing, and that's gonna be very tough, because you're addicted to the image part, and you're gonna be going, you've already started evaluating everybody and sizing people up.”
Tom DeLong Jul 24, 2017 ▶ 28:03 Thomas DeLong – Authentic Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.18)
Jul 24, 2017
Disclosure
DeLong: Missing his university presidency goal leaves him feeling like a failure
“And at the very last thing I say in my self-doubting story is, and here I am at Harvard Business School, and I still feel like a failure, because my goal was to be a university president, and I'm not going to make it.”
Tom DeLong Jul 24, 2017 ▶ 26:10 Thomas DeLong – Authentic Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.18)
Feb 17, 2020 negative
Insight
Engineering and predicting top-line revenue growth is impossible for PE
“You can't predict revenue growth, and it's really hard to control it. Wish we could, and if it were possible, there'd be a class at Harvard Business School, how to drive revenue growth, okay? It's just impossible and unpredictable, and maybe you get things rig…”
Dan Rasmussen Feb 17, 2020 ▶ 16:05 Dan Rasmussen – Private Equity Risk and Public Equity Opportunity at Verdad Advisers (First Meeting, EP.15)
Aug 17, 2020
Insight
Lew: Alienation and Self-Doubt Severely Hinder Class Participation at HBS
“It's really hard to do well at HBS if you don't speak up in class. If you have so much self doubt and you are always wondering about whether someone is perceiving you as not belonging there or less than, it's much harder to speak up than it is when you feel li…”
Kim Lew Aug 17, 2020 ▶ 15:17 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 2: Kim Lew – The Opportunity and Challenge (Capital Allocators, EP.152)
Aug 17, 2020 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Harvard Business School historically increased Black enrollment by adding a new section
“The way that they were able to increase the number of black students at HBS is by adding a new section. So no one felt threatened. We just have a brand new section. It's not like all the African-American people are in that one section. We sprinkle them through…”
Kim Lew Aug 17, 2020 ▶ 45:42 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 2: Kim Lew – The Opportunity and Challenge (Capital Allocators, EP.152)
Oct 21, 2021 negative
Opinion
Liu: Harvard Business School prepares students for executive roles 30 years out
“And that's one of the complaints I've always had about business school, HBS in general. They teach you how to do the job you're going to have 30 years from now, not the job when you first come out of school.”
Kim Lew Oct 21, 2021 ▶ 17:21 Stefan Kaluzny – Sycamore Partners [Manager Meetings, EP.16]
Mar 20, 2023
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Colin Campbell's mother was among the first women admitted to Harvard Business School
“My mom was one of the first women to get admitted to Harvard business school back in the. Where she was in, I think the second or third class of students that had women in it.”
Colin Campbell Mar 20, 2023 ▶ 1:01:57 Colin Campbell – The Case for Environmental Markets (Climate Solutions EP.3, Capital Allocators EP.302)
Jun 26, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Breitfelder: Harvard Business School offered zero HR classes twenty years ago
“But in that era of HBS, and I graduated twenty-odd years ago, there weren't any HR classes. HR was not seen as a profession anyone from HBS would ever go into. And HR functions had been positioned as administrative, not strategic.”
Matt Breitfelder Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 13:57 Matt Breitfelder – Optimizing Investment Performance through Human Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.323)
Jun 26, 2023 negative
Opinion
Breitfelder: Top Business Schools Were Late to Modern Human Capital Science
“I think the fact that HBS and Wharton and Stanford and all the top business schools have also been late to it didn't help because most of the leaders of these firms were educated in the same era, so they just weren't exposed to it”
Matt Breitfelder Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 33:49 Matt Breitfelder – Optimizing Investment Performance through Human Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.323)
Sep 14, 2023
Disclosure
Harvard Business School admitted Karr at age 19 with deferred enrollment
“I applied to HBS when I was 19 in college, and they accepted you at the time contingent on a couple years of work experience.”
Adam Karr Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 8:28 Adam Karr – Extreme Alignment at Orbis (EP.338)
May 20, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Only Two of 800 HBS Grads Entered Hedge Funds in Early 1990s
“I think in my year, 800 people graduated HBS. I think, off the top of my head, I think roughly two went into hedge funds.”
Brett Barakett May 20, 2024 ▶ 11:03 Brett Barakett - Digging for the Puck at Tremblant Capital (EP.386)
May 23, 2024 positive
Insight
Tannenbaum: Conglomerates are suboptimal everywhere in the world except in India
“So much so that there's a Harvard Business School professor I worked with named Tarun Khanna, who'd done this seminal research where he said, conglomerates are the worst form of business unit and organization and suboptimal everywhere in the world, except Indi…”
Dan Tannenbaum May 23, 2024 ▶ 19:57 Dan Tennebaum - The Case for India at India Capital (EP.387)
Jul 1, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Duhigg: I was the lowest-paid working graduate in my HBS class
“When I graduated from HBS, I was the lowest paid member of my class that was working for the first six years.”
Charles Duhigg Jul 1, 2024 ▶ 6:53 Charles Duhigg- Secrets of Communication (EP.394)
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Insight
Perelman: An HBS Email Address Is a Powerful Tool to Reach CEOs
“An HBS email address is a really powerful weapon. We would email CEOs of huge companies that we were trying to learn from, and they would all reply because of the email address.”
Matt Perelman Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 16:44 Alex Sloane & Matt Perelman – Buy-and-Build Playbook in the Core Economy at GSP (EP.499)
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