George L. Van Amson Story VIDEO: 6 minutes

Story regarding his experience as a native New Yorker attending HBS in the 1980s, in terms of having to soften his natural acrimony toward Boston, and laying an important foundation for his life. He notes that the high caliber of students is reflected in a heated financial debate he had with a classmate who later became CFO and CEO of a Fortune 500 company. He also states that Harvard needs to increase its enrollment of African-Americans and that friendships made at HBS reverberate throughout a lifetime.