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...initiatives they intend to pursue. For example, the team plans to develop a “fast-track” Ph.D. in nursing at UMASS-Boston. The program, according to Glazer, will focus on minority students and will help nurses to develop advanced cancer-fighting skills, enabling them to earn their Ph.D.’s—and to enter the community—more quickly. “Our goal is an increase in the number of minority students going into cancer research,” Glazer explained. Glazer, like Emmons, said he is excited by the partnership?...
Students interested in hospital administration can earn both an MD and an MBA in five years—rather than the usual six—under a new Harvard program formally launched at a reception in the Business School’s Spangler Center yesterday. The program begins with three years of study at Harvard Medical School (HMS), including seminars in health care policy and management. Students then spend their fourth year at the Business School and enroll in electives at both schools during their final year. “It’s a real home...
...dancing professionally for awhile yet. With plans to teach at the Waltham dance studio where she currently practices, Mariko hopes to split her post-graduate time between teaching and competion.While I think I’ll eventually want to do something more academically challenging in the future, like earn my master’s or Ph.D. in history, art history, or literature, right now, my goal is to make it to the [dance] finals in the next 4-5 years. It would be great to do that at the Ohio Star Ball, but especially at Blackpool in England...
...routinely outperform MBA candidates. Were the same perception about HBS to take hold among recruiters, HBS’s reputation (and the opportunities of its students) would be diminished.A no-release policy that all students must follow also inhibits students’ ability to use the grades that they earned in order to land the jobs they want. In essence, for the last seven years students have not fully owned the grades they received at HBS. There is no incentive for students to work for a “I” (students at HBS are graded between...
...letter that optional disclosure might help resolve that issue.“We want to be sure we provide positive incentives for students in a way that helps them make the most of their time at HBS,” he wrote. “We also believe students earn their grades, and thus it is fair they be able to use them to highlight their capabilities in a career search, should they so choose.”When asked whether an optional-disclosure policy would pressure students to reveal their grades, Ruback responded that he thought that HBS graduates?...