Harvard’s Poignant Ice Bucket Challenge

And Wharton MBAs weighed in with this response, challenging Columbia, London Business School and Tuck.

Nearly 3,000 miles away, over on the West Coast at Stanford University, a group of business and med schools students got together and with the help of the Palo Alto Fire Department filled their buckets with “reclaimed water” (this is California, after all) and did their thing. Check it out:

So far, UNC’s Kenan-Flager Business School has posted the most elaborate of all the videotaped challenges, replete with background music, multiple ice bucket dumps, and the assistance of the local fire department which provided a massive fire hose to spray a steady stream of cold water on hundreds of students(see following page).

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