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Nationally, diversity is definitely the justification for such new MBA plans, according to Bill K. Laidlaw, executive vice president of the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business...
...candidates tend to bring similar professional backgrounds with them to business school, Laidlaw says...
...only the entrenched hiring traditions of financial firms and the students who will work for them defy Harvard's possible initiative. Although Laidlaw says he predicts a trend toward more diverse business school classrooms, tha trend has apparently not yet arrived...
...Bill K. Laidlaw, executive vice president of the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, called the proposed overhaul "very significant." But he suggested that the plan might have been developed at least partly to keep up with changes at other business schools...
...Some of the other schools have made changes of the type that Harvard is talking about, so some of these changes are needed to keep up with the changes at other places," Laidlaw said. "The impact of these kinds of changes would be to incorporate elements into the curriculum that I see other schools experimenting with...