Ovations

The norm with which a new HBS student most quickly becomes familiar is probably that of applause. We clap. A lot. At the beginning of class, when a visitor is introduced, at the end of every class, at key moments in class, when someone makes a joke or an unintentional joke or (less often) a particularly pithy or profound or virtuoso comment - the HBS experience is continually punctuated by clapping. Each section builds its own community identity - and expresses it often - through this most communal of actions.