Word: leopolds
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...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...
Prospective students understood that work experience was valuable for the classroom, Leopold writes in an e-mail, but they began to believe it was an absolute requirement for admission...
...result, candidates who were in college or who had recently graduated from college believed—incorrectly—that they had to accumulate several more years of work experience in order to strengthen their application,” Leopold writes...
...sandy soil nearby. Alain Ducasse, the first chef ever to win three Michelin stars for two restaurants simultaneously, followed an avenue of cypress and Tuscan pines through vineyards and olive groves and found, at the end of it, a chunky 19th century palazzo built as a hunting lodge for Leopold II, the last Grand Duke of Tuscany. In partnership with Vittorio Moretti, a building magnate and wine producer, the Frenchman transformed the ducal folly into a resort, adding an extension, a spa, tennis courts and a golf course, and refashioning an old granary to house the Trattoria. Now bulldozers...
...child, the magician had met and fallen in love with a young duchess and schemed to elope with her. In maturity, this beauty has become Princess Sophie (Jessica Biel), who is likely to be wed to Crown Prince Leopold (Rufus Sewell), a potentate as brutal as he is handsome--and he is very handsome. If Eisenheim and Sophie are to resume their tryst, they must elude both Leopold and his wily Chief Inspector Uhl (Paul Giamatti). All are ready to play roles in Eisenheim's game: to be his accomplice, his stooge, his unmasker, his ruin...