Word: mba
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Committee member Bradshaw must have been among Allison's more enthusiastic listeners. The oil executive received his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1942 and taught there for the next ten years. In fact, two-thirds of the members of the Kennedy School's Visiting and Advisory Committees are corporate executives of partners in corporate law, management or investment firms. This is in spite of official University policy that Visiting Committees comprise persons who "are knowledgeable and experienced in the fields which they are called upon to examine." A Business School organ, happily echoing Allison's speech, said...
Business is no longer exclusively a male domain, and neither is Harvard Business School. Of the 785 first-year MBA candidates at the Business School this year, 175 are women. That's 22 per cent--more than any year in Business School history. "It's the first time that women have critical mass at the school," says Elaine B. Medverd, director of the MBA program. "And it makes a big difference in the classroom...
Cathy A. Connett, a second-year MBA candidate, describes her experience as supervisor of a Duncan Hines packing plant. "I had taken great pains to convince the men I was working with that I could do a competent job--I'd specifically requested that the workers train me so that they could get to know me personally and I could earn their respect...One of the women who followed me made a point of correcting the men when they called her a girl instead of a woman. Then when they referred to me as a girl I knew they were...
Women who are concerned with integrating feminist principles into their career plans often reject Business School as "a sell-out." As second-year MBA candidate Anne L. Houden puts it, "Large numbers of women going into management will change business's image. But right now, to get ahead at Harvard Business School you have to adopt business ethics--and those are male ethics...
...about 20 years, but she was the last of the 'Old Guard.' Staff assistants now are getting younger and younger, and it doesn't really do you any good to stay here to long. To get on in administration, you really need a Ph.D. in Education or an MBA," she says...