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...speech, the second in a series sponsored by the Harvard Entrepreneurs Club (HEC), was attended by about two dozen students...
Louis I. Kane '53, co-chair of Au Bon Pain Co., Inc., shared the secrets of his success last night at an intimate gathering of the Harvard Entrepreneurs Club (HEC...
Thomas Y. Wu '98, president of the HEC, said he appreciated Kane's discussion of "the kinds of difficulties you run into when you start a business...
...press officer at the Ecole des Parents, an organization that deals with family and school problems: "Parents know that if the child doesn't get the right orientation early on, he'll end up in one of the classes poubelles [garbage-can classes] instead of getting to hec [short for Hautes Etudes Commerciales, a prestigious business school] or Ecole Polytechnique [a grande école]. It's highly unfair to ask a teen-ager to know what he wants to do with his life by the time he is 13, but that's exactly what the system...
...pride of French education with its curriculum of philosophy and literature, has lost out in popularity to more science-oriented programs. The "C" section for math and physical sciences has become the chief path for aspiring engineers and scientists and for those who want to enroll in the hec. Says one mother: "There's terrible pressure on the children to go into the scientific or economic divisions. Anyone who goes into the literary section is considered obviously substandard...