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...mystery user downloaded an average of 55,000 documents per day, according to Lydia Petersen, a content manager for HBS??s Baker Library. The user retrieved the documents at a rate as high as four per second, which led Factiva and library officials to believe that an automated script controlled the downloads. The use of such a script is prohibited by Factiva...
...innovative and exciting solution. The program, according to Kimmel, would specifically not seek to admit students who were already well on their way to an investment bank or consulting firm. With a place at HBS secured, such students will hopefully feel liberated to pursue more diverse interests, enriching both HBS?? incoming class the lives of its students.To help admitted students find jobs, the 2+2 program plans to partner with around 100 major companies. While these companies already include McKinsey—a company definitely part of the traditional “business track?...
...made arrangements with Brigham Young University in Idaho (BYU-Idaho) to make its entire library of case studies and electronic materials—one of the most extensive in the world—available to professors and students at BYU-Idaho. While other universities have paid for use of HBS??s materials in the past, licenses have always been purchased on an individual and partial basis. This arrangement, made between HBS and BYU-Idaho President Kim B. Clark ’74, who until 2005 was dean of HBS, will allow BYU-Idaho greater flexibility than any other...
...over a new vision for the Mormon school. Now, he’s also bringing over an entire library: BYU-Idaho has been using case studies from Clark’s alma mater since January, and is the first university to be given a site license for all of HBS??s electronic materials. “BYU is a first mover in this, because of Kim Clark’s understanding of the repository,” said Ellen J. Gandt, the director of higher education marketing at HBS Publishing. According to Gandt, approximately 30 other universities worldwide...
...faculty concerns that the rising age and experience levels of MBA students was creating a student body with a narrower range of perspectives. The school’s managing director of MBA admissions and financial aid, Deirdre C. Leopold, says that the lack of diversity was not conducive to HBS??s classroom model, in which students analyze and debate individual case studies...