Christine Lagarde tries a joke to fit in with the MIT crowd
Last Friday I attended the Compton lecture with Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF, at Kresge Auditorium. The place was packed when I arrived, but I was lucky enough to find an empty seat near the front, close to the microphones. Mme Lagarde’s presentation was interesting, fun, and catered to the MIT audience’s “nerdy” appeal (she even made some references to Star Trek during her speech). I took the picture below when students lined up for the Q&A at the end of her intervention.
To me, this is what MIT and Sloan stand for. A place full of interesting activities, intelligent people, and where it is cool to be smart. A place where ideas to improve the world are floating around all the time, and where even powerful leaders try a joke or two to try fit in with the “nerdy” types.
