Harvard
10 statements across 10 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Apr 10, 2018 by Barbara Oakley · across every show →
Everything said about Harvard, oldest first
Apr 10, 2018 positive
Oakley's $5,000 basement course matched Harvard's entire online course enrollment
“Our one little course that was made for less than 5000 dollars, mostly in my basement had on this order the same number of students as all of Harvard's online courses put together, made for millions of dollars with hundreds of people.”
Jul 11, 2018 negative
MacAskill: Harvard and Stanford should spend their endowments rather than fundraising
“It kind of baffles me that organizations, that, yeah, organizations like Harvard and Stanford are requesting donations from their alumni while at the same time sitting on an endowment of thirty-five billion dollars that they could be spending down.”
Oct 2, 2018 positive
Gawande: Clinical excellence depends more on organizational systems than pedigree
“It's not all about Being at Harvard and going to the very best program and being the most pedigreed and the most credentialed, you had these folks who were getting remarkable results, and it was not about just their performance, it was the team and the organiz…”
Feb 5, 2019 neutral
Oct 5, 2021 positive
May 3, 2022 bullish
Sinclair: Tally Health Will Release a 10x Cheaper Biological Age Test
“My student, one of my students at Harvard Has developed a technology where we can measure this clock very cheaply for at least 10 times less than that. And we're about to release a product in this, sometime this year, that would be a cheek swab”
Jun 25, 2024 neutral
Doucleff: Nuclear family rise correlates with historical Catholic Church influence
“And this professor at Harvard has, like, tracked down the rise of the nuclear family correlates with how long ago the Catholic Church was brought into a society. And so Europe is the longest, and you see this very strong nuclear family, and then other parts of…”
May 13, 2025 positive
Gil: Stanford, MIT, and Harvard dominate outsized startup founder outcomes
“We went, my team went back and we looked at where do all the startup founders come out of school-wise, and three schools dominate by far in terms of big outside outcomes. Stanford is number one by far, and then MIT and Harvard.”
Dec 16, 2025