Harvard Business School
11 statements across 8 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Dec 18, 2017 by Alexa von Tobel · said 110 times in 43 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2024 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2023 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2022 11 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
2021 12 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
2020 28 mentions in 8 episodes 4 per episode
2019 11 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
2018 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2017 18 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
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2016 2 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Harvard Business School, oldest first
Dec 18, 2017
Apr 2, 2018
Lake: Harvard Business School was a de-risked runway for a startup
“I was, like, my risk profile, I was never gonna, like, quit my job and take all this risk and have a gap on my resume. Like, that was just, that was never a choice in my mind, and so I was, like, I can Take these two years. I can be a mediocre student. And, yo…”
Apr 29, 2019 positive
Foley: HBS showed no one is significantly smarter than anyone else
“It did in many ways changed my trajectory, because it gave me the confidence to know that no one is that much smarter than the next person, and everyone's trying to figure it out, and so it was a transformative opportunity for me to go.”
Mar 16, 2020
Apr 6, 2020 neutral
Kauss earned less in her post-HBS job than before business school
“Myself and just a couple of my friends, we actually wound up staying at Harvard Business School, and the school created jobs for some of us. So you're working in a position that, you know, quite honestly, I was making less after business school than I did befo…”
Apr 6, 2020 neutral
Mar 22, 2021 neutral
Mar 22, 2021
Oct 27, 2022 negative
Harvard and Yale Students Recruited Coders From MIT Jobs List
“There was a, there's an infamous mailing list, email mailing list at MIT called the jobs list that was run by a faculty member in the computer science department. And it ended up being a place where Harvard and Yale business school students would basically sen…”
Jan 26, 2023 neutral
DiGiovanni was rejected by every MBA program except Harvard Business School
“So, my senior year of college, I applied to a couple Business school programs where I could defer, so take a couple years to work, and then go, and I applied to just a small handful, and I actually got rejected from all of them except for Harvard Business Scho…”