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...pool dries up, it may come as some small comfort that there is at least one potential employer who is still willing to wine and dine in order to lure potential employees. Cakebread Cellars, a vineyard in Napa Valley, recently invited 10 members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) Wine and Cuisine Society to spend their intersession in California to entice them to pursue careers in the wine-making industry. It seems that Cakebread Cellars is capitalizing on the fact that it’s just hard to say “no” to anything when alcohol...
...Cakebread University,” as the introductory program offered by the vineyard is known, is not just a party school where the wine quite literally flows like water. For part of their days at the elite academy, the HBS students were forced to labor over hot open flames in a series of gourmet cooking classes. The students also received serious career advice from a host of wine industry experts, who did their best to impart the timeless moral that there is more than one way to become a millionaire. The grueling final assignment of Cakebread University asked the students...
Rock, who graduated from HBS in 1951, and classmate Fayez S. Sarofim funded the school’s first professorship in the field of entrepreneurship in 1981. The school sought to establish entrepreneurship as a core component of business education...
Stevenson hopes that the gift will allow the schools’ programs to have reach beyond the walls of HBS...
Rock, a graduate of Syracuse University, earned his MBA from HBS in 1951 and after graduation began his business career as a security analyst in New York City...