Word: mason
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...exceptional number of Mason alumni are national bank presidents and ministers of state. Harris Mule, for example, was a very junior official in Kenya when he came to Harvard. Today he is the country's secretary of finance...
Equally impressive are the graduates from the Mason Program, which is administered jointly by the K-School and the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). Established in 1957 as an effort to train third world officials in economic development, the program has expanded to include public servants in fields as diverse as health and rural development...
...Some Mason graduate have had turbulent careers. Belai Abai, former minister of land reform in Ethiopia, was jailed when President Haile Selassie was overthrown in the mid-1970s. Abai's services were so valuable, however, that the new government sent a car and driver to take him from prison to his office every day. A. M. A. Mulith became minister of finance in Bangladesh after last month's coup. Sergio Bitar lost his job as minister of mines in Chile when the government of Salvadore Allende was toppled...
...current class of foreign students at the school includes a former foreign minister of Nigeria, the director of EgyptAir and a commander in the Malaysian navy. The Mason Program has several dozen students who may soon become important government functionaries in their native countries...
...Mason followers are given more leeway. Although they must take half of their eight courses at the school or in a pre-chosen "home" department, the remaining four chosen are left open to electives. As program direction Nancy Pyle explains, "All of these people have already had experience and are pretty good at what they do. As it is, a whole year away from their careers is a long time; we must have a totally flexible program...