june 2004

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Undercover Alum Faces the Music in HBS Show

When the upper reaches of HBS administration accidentally lose the School’s entire $1 billion nest egg, the FBI offers Dean Clark a way to recompense for the fiduciary gaffe — or else. The Feds have decided that HBS would make a perfect hideout for the star witness in an impending insider-trading trial. Enter Whit Sellblower, a Baker Scholar graduate of HBS, who goes undercover and returns to the School to pass as a student once again. Predictable — and unpredictable — complications ensue.

Such were the Terms of Endowment, this year’s HBS Show, an all-student, original song-and-dance extravaganza that drew enthusiastic crowds to its four April performances. Several dozen students took part in mounting all aspects of the production, which featured memorable characters such as Reese Tatedearnings and Professor Matthew Canton-Derstand, and songs like “A Scorpion Bowl/Ignition Remix” and “One Moment in TOM.”