Friday, October 24, 2008
MBA students flock to new course: Hunting and Gathering
Cambridge, MA—Business schools across the country have been scrambling to add courses to their curricula that will provide their MBA candidates the skills they need to survive in the current economic landscape. Courses like Modeling for Quantitative Analysis and Building Strong Global Brands have been replaced with modules more pertinent to businessmen navigating today’s climate, such as: Monetizing Your Oxen and Bartering Theory—Accelerated. Also, Special Topics In Entrepreneurship: Alchemy. Most popular, however, has been a course at Harvard Business School entitled Hunting and Gathering. Taught in the classic HBS case-study format, the class focuses on teaching students how they can profit from even the most primal ventures. “This week’s case was great,” said one student. “It was about a caveman who killed a boar to feed himself and his family. I read it, and I was like: this is exactly the kind of shit I need to know right now.”
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October 24th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Awesome.
October 24th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
This one is kind of funny
October 25th, 2008 at 1:00 am
im effed up right now and thisis shit iss grrteat!! i love ouy leveraged sellout!!!!!!
October 25th, 2008 at 1:32 am
That was fucking stupid biatch…your stretching man..
October 27th, 2008 at 10:36 am
MBA Intern,
It’s you’re, are you at Devry?
October 28th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
That’s a comma-splice, MBA Spellchecker. Did you go to public school? Milton Academy, bitch.
October 29th, 2008 at 11:11 am
At Cyberwave:
Please.
Piper Jaffray:Milton Academy::Goldman Sachs:Exeter
Know your role, bitch
October 29th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Ha, last time milton got any props was stoneface. Guarantee that wasn’t you. Step up your game son.
October 30th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
What’s with the UCONN school of business ad on this site? How retail…
October 30th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
At Anonymous (11:11):
Exeter is for people weren’t smart enough and whose parents weren’t connected enough to get them into Andover. What are you doing posting at 11:11 AM anyway? Daddy didn’t get you a job after graduation?
October 31st, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Everyone knows that the only worthwhile Secondary School’s are the following:
Andover, Exeter, St. Mark’s, Middlesex, Groton, St. George’s and St. Paul’s - all others are just a waste of time and middle-class money.
November 1st, 2008 at 10:56 pm
1. “The only worthwhile Secondary School’s”? Clearly you didn’t go to one of the few worthwhile Secondary Schools. Note the lack of an apostrophe (matching your lack of a good education).
2. Middlesex? Are you serious? I mean I’ll give you Andover, Groton and St. Paul’s, but Middlesex? Clearly your parents were the ones wasting the middle-class money.
Also: 3:09 PM? Again: get a job.
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:05 am
Milton Academy … HA!- St. George’s? Are you serious? One of my less impressive business school classmates went there. I know because he still put it on his resume, despite pushing 30. It was right next to his 20-25 ranked undergrad and (I am not making this up) his membership in the Mayflower Society.
November 2nd, 2008 at 6:27 pm
I went to publik skool. i arent smart howeverr, publick shcool kids = kick the shit out of private schools kids…. n thats what life boils down to.
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Keep slaving so that someday maybe I will throw one of your bosses some fees. Good thing for “trickle down” economics, eh?
November 12th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Tools. Really bickering about where you go to school between ages 14 and 18? All private schools are a waste of money; the roi on pub school is astronomically higher.