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Forst, who holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, arrived from Goldman Sachs at the end of a protracted year-long search. Though new to higher education administration, he had kept a hand in Harvard’s affairs, co-chairing several class gift committees and the University Committee on Student Excellence and Opportunity...
Have you considered adding alumni earnings to the rankings formula, along the lines of the PayScale rankings? Yes. We have earnings in two of our rankings. In our MBA rankings, we have earnings data. In our law rankings, we have [job] placement data. There were issues about that, that [PayScale] was giving credit for somebody's salary for their undergraduate vs. their graduate degree. That's a problem with using it. But obviously people care. It's important how much money people make and the value of degrees. Students are graduating with debts, and they have to pay them back...
...telling me that I needed my undergraduate degree first," she recalled. Instead she enrolled at Xavier University in New Orleans on a scholarship. She went on to attend medical school at both the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Atlanta's Morehouse School of Medicine. She also holds an MBA from Tulane University...
...McNamara's legendary quantitative approach to problem-solving was established long before he became the secretary of defense. After studying economics, mathematics, and philosophy at Berkeley, he earned his MBA at Harvard, where he explored systems analysis and the statistical techniques that he would later rely on in restructuring the Pentagon and managing the Vietnam War effort...
...Given the high number of high-quality applicants, we decided to take advantage of that by slightly increasing the number of people admitted to the MBA program," said HBS spokesman James E. Aisner...