Word: amps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight full-time AMP professors work more like orchestra conductors than speaker explains, James: "The professor is not so much there to teach, but to orchestrate discussion." Both AMP classrooms are arranged in a horseshoe shape and participants sit on different levels, so that; student can see and talk with all the classmates easily...
...AMP professor who received top ratings from past and present students interviewed. Samuel I. Haves III, Schitt Professor of Investment Banking says he usually begins a class by posing a question to a student rather than lecturing. "I will call on a person for their analysis of the case's situation, but we don't try to embarass people," says Hayes. But, Hayes explains that the AMP professor can't just sit back and let the class run its course. "I have to know everything that might possibly come...
...AMP WORKLOAD heavy three and a half hours of class a day and discussion sessions six times a week. Still one graduate of last prime program, Burl Osborne, senior vice president of The Dallas Morning News, says his AMP experience was relaxing...
...time to get off the treadmill for a while and reflect," said Osborne. Besides being a refuge from the survival-of-the-fittest business world and an educational experience. Osborne says the AMP was "extremely broadening" because he got to meet people from all over the world "Something will pass as the mail once or twice a week from people I met at Harvard," says Osborne...
...Osborne's classmates last spring, Larry J. Larkin, senior vice president of Equitable Life Assurance Society, says that before he came to AMP he approached business problems in a "global" way, but now breaks them down into smaller more workable parts. "I've changed my approach to situations. After using the case method I approach problems in a more systematic, analytic way," says Larkin...