I just came back from a learning team meeting where we debriefed on a group activity that took place Friday. Now that I look around the web, there seems to be a lot of variants on this same activity, but we did one called the “Subarctic Survival Situation“: The excercise essentially works as follows: A [...]
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Learning Teams: Formalized Study Groups?
September 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
As mentioned a few posts ago, HBS recently said to themselves “Hey, 90 people is a lot. We should try to figure out a way to give the students a small group experience while still maintaining our economies of scale.” The result of this discussion was the “learning team”, a group of 6 people who [...]
The First Day! (And Learning Teams)
September 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Today was the first day of orientation! Orientation at HBS isn’t that long… it only lasts for three days (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) before throwing us into a full “three-case-day” on Friday. We started the day by meeting all together as a group in Burden Auditorium. The size of this class is absolutely amazing. I’m [...]