05
Aug
2013
The Fruit of Harvard’s Tree
Greg Mankiw writes:
As part of our “marketing” effort to get freshmen into ec 10, Harvard’s introductory economics course, the ec 10 staff and I are trying to construct a list of famous alums of the course. Here is the list we have put together so far:
Steve Ballmer
Ben Bernanke
Lloyd Blankfein
Ryan Fitzpatrick
Jeremy Lin
Sheryl Sandberg
Eduardo Saverin
Chuck Schumer
Cameron Winklevoss
Tyler Winklevoss
Mark Zuckerberg
I don’t know half of the above people, but except for Jeremy Lin, I’m not sure this is good marketing…
UPDATE: I live in Nashville, so I should add Ryan Fitzpatrick to the list of safe bragging…
Here’s a short clip of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc
There was a lack of aggregate standing.
I gotta say, for character the average grade 3 graduating class comes out better.
They might not want to lead with this list.
The Winklevoss twins claim to own around 1% of all the Bitcoins in existence.