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...There had been a very strong tradition of having people come to HBS right out of college, but then, the word was out on the street that you had to wait to go to B-school,” Dewey says, noting that eBay CEO Meg Whitman came to HBS directly from Princeton University. “Conventional Wisdom kept reinventing itself. So we looked at our applicant pool and said where are the amazing folks who want to come out of college...
...Early Career Initiative was born out of this reaction—and with brochures and postcards printed, HBS admissions offers are doing more than ever to help spread the word that there is “no right time to apply to business school...
...Very few people apply right out of college. But we don’t feel that there really is a right time to apply, and it’s up to each individual to take stock in where they are now. We want people to think about HBS as an option right out of college...
Kreisberg says that the change in targeted applicants comes at a time when HBS is undergoing what some call an “academization”—turning away from a management school into a technical school...
...says that having more students come directly from college might hurt HBS in the long-run, as it pushes the academization process further...