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...B-School students attend an average of 10 classes per week. First-year students say they spend about three hours in preparation for each class, while savvy second-year students whittle studying time down to about an hour per class...
...Unfortunately, people work pretty hard here," Ambro says. "You might spend 10 hours a day doing cases. A big part of what you [should] get out of the B-School is the people you meet. I don't think there's enough emphasis on that unofficial part of the curriculum...
Hardly. At best, such instruction would merely allow the University to disclaim responsibility for future alumni malfeasance. But Harvard is not to blame for the actions of its alumni. While instituting an ethics course may relieve the B-School's sense of guilt, it would not make Harvard MBA's any more "ethical...
More generally, business interests and ethical concerns regularly conflict in the real world that B-school students eventually will face. In a competitive business environment knowing something that the other guy doesn't know is the way to turn big profits. Secrecy and deception, whether legal or illegal, are part of the game. The line between the kings of financial shenanigans that are legal and those that aren't is arbitrary. Many graduates of another professional school, the one located just behind Littauer, will spend their careers thinking up ways for investors to bend...
...today's environment, B-School students are at Harvard to figure out how to maximize profits; social justice isn't on the agenda of American business. One course won't make any difference...