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...Harvard Business School professor emeritus who taught at the school for 31 years, died March 24 at his Massachusetts home. He was 87. Thurston joined the HBS faculty in 1958 after receiving his doctorate in business administration at the school. As a faculty member, Thurston taught in both the MBA and Executive Education programs while also serving in administrative roles. Colleagues remembered Thurston last week as honest and warm. “He was a native of Maine...and it seemed to me he personified the good traits that I associated with ‘Mainiacs?...
Harvard Business School spokesman David Lampe, in a telephone interview with Bloomberg.com, called the rankings “more of a beauty contest” than an accurate measure of an MBA program’s quality...
...expanded to Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Over the course of the three days, HBS faculty instructed the players with the MBA’s case method. Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance and former chairman of the MBA program W. Carl Kester said he developed the curriculum to best complement the players’ needs. “We are not trying to cover the whole waterfront,” Kester said. “The program is all with the aim to enable people to take action...
...taking greater measures to verify application material,” wrote HBS Managing Director for MBA Admissions Brit K. Dewey in an e-mail...
...Business school admissions officers are increasingly concerned about the use of so-called ‘admissions consultants’ by applicants to increase their chances of being accepted to upper echelon MBA programs,” the editorial staff of the publication wrote in an e-mail to the student body announcing the poll...