Coming out of the Stanford GSB, one of my favorite customs is small group dinners (SGDs). These SGDs were a direct response to counter the many large and impersonal events where hundreds of students mingled and chit-chatted much ado about nothing while vigorously drowning their boredom with cheap beer to pass the time. Although to be far, these larger events were fun in the moment - you laughed over inside jokes, bonded over sinking plastic balls in cups, and generally created loose ties abou...

Coming out of the Stanford GSB, one of my favorite customs is small group dinners (SGDs). These SGDs were a direct response to counter the many large and impersonal events where hundreds of students mingled and chit-chatted much ado about nothing while vigorously drowning their boredom with cheap beer to pass the time. Although to be far, these larger events were fun in the moment - you laughed over inside jokes, bonded over sinking plastic balls in cups, and generally created loose ties abou...