Sunday, May 23, 2004

Heard in class and faithfully reported

FSA = Financial Statement Analysis
MEG = Managing Entrepreneurial Growth

"in pure accounting terms..." - student in FSA
"first of all there is no pure accounting" - FSA professor

"children make you good managers. Anyone with children? Yes? How old" - MEG professor
"1 year old? That's ideal to work with senior management" - MEG professor

"Leaders are dealers in hope" - MEG professor

When circulating a sign up sheet for lunches with boxes for a list of students, people all zoomed on one date and added lines of name below the box
-"well, we teach you to THINK outside the box, not to WRITE outside the box" MEG professor

"look out for my book: Strategic Parenting. In there, I reveal what the most frustrating thing is for a Harvard MBA: their kids. 'Cause they can't fire 'em!" - MEG professor

"OD, Organization Development you idiot, NOT Overdose' - MEG professor

"The power of innovation is to make you look at things differently. Insead really innovated with the opening of the campus in Singapore. Now it is forced to look at the world globally, force to re-invent itself as it cannot be just a European business school. It was a pioneer, it had to invent other ways to continue be a pioneer" - MEG professor

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