Word: hbs
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...HBS took a major step toward attracting younger students in 2001, when the school launched the Early Career Initiative—a program that targets students like Kafie within three years of graduating college...
...average student entering HBS is 27 years old. Kafie, who, unlike most Early Career students, went straight from college to business school, started when...
...HBS renewed its push for younger applicants in 2001 amid 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...
Through the initiative HBS administrators have worked to communicate to candidates that they should apply to business school “when they believe the experience will be most valuable for them,” regardless of a target number of years in the workforce, she adds...
Beroutsos, who leads McKinsey’s recruitment efforts at HBS, says that job applicants with less experience might be hampered when they face competitors with otherwise similar profiles...