Community Memories
Burt Alimansky Story
Story regarding his experience as a PhD in English Literature attending HBS in the 1970s, which was a series of adventures in experiential learning. He recounts how the first day orientation introductions showed each successive student more impressive than the last. He dared to answer the Decision Theory final exam question not with "linear regressions" but with his intuition, and was commended. Professor Hatton secretly arranged with him to enact a disturbing situation in class, that demonstrated the case study in discussion, to see if students would defend a victim against an authority figure. He also mentions briefly his portrayal of a kangaroo.
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