After co-founding the National Lampoon in 1970, Robert Hoffman graduated from the Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar. A business and civic leader in Dallas, he was the long-time head of Coca Cola Bottling Company Southwest, the fifth-largest such enterprise in the country. In his spare time he also amassed one of the top art collections in the world and had three beautiful daughters. Hannah, Augusta, and Kate. The National Lampoon is a humor magazine that began in 1970 as an offshoot of the Harvard Lampoon. ... Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University, and is one of the worlds leading management schools. ... Dallas redirects here. ... The wave shape (known as the dynamic ribbon device) present on all Coca-Cola cans throughout the world derives from the contour of the original Coca-Cola bottles. ...
In particular, he is co-author (with Micki Chi and Robert Glaser) of a designated Science Citation Classic paper on problem solving in physics (see below) which has contributed to the development of human expertise as a field of study in cognitive science.
He is also co-editor (with Ken Ford and RobertHoffman) of Expertise in Context: Human and Machine (AAAI/MIT) and (with Ken Forbus) Smart Machines in Education (AAAI/MIT).
He was once editor of the journal Teaching and Learning in Medicine: An International Journal and has served on several editorial boards, e.g., the Educational Researcher, the Journal of the Learning Sciences, Advances in Health Sciences Education.
As I got a little older: THE CAT ATE MY GYMSUIT, books by Paul Zindel, and my favoritea novel called ALLEGRA MAUD GOLDMAN about a young girl who always knew exactly who she was.
Now: Anything by Alice Hoffman, Robert Jordan, Ray Bradbury, Francesca Lia Block.
Recent favorites: BEE SEASON, WHITE OLEANDER, HOTEL WORLD, and CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL.