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...sent him a teasing note through Facebook saying she was offended he hadn't asked her for a job. He hadn't even though of it: when they had last worked together, she was fairly junior. He'd missed the part of the story where she'd gotten her MBA and was promoted twice. She passed along his résumé and within days he was having an interview. In the meeting he was up-front: he said he needed to find a new job quickly and was interviewing at other companies, too. The next...
...Brooklyn, N.Y. "I've always wanted to see how the magic was constructed." Thanks to the recession, Gandy and many others are finally getting a chance to connect with their inner-MC. After she lost her hedge fund job in December, Gandy, a Harvard undergrad who also has an MBA from Georgetown, made a list of the things she's always wanted to do, if a lifetime of work and achievement and climbing up the corporate ladder don't get in the way. Near the top of the list: learn to rock a party with a turntable. "I figured...
...finance. Ralph Earle III ’79, Mendillo’s husband whom she met in graduate school, says at one point she weighed the possibility of working toward a Ph.D. in English literature. But after being lured into the world of finance, Mendillo chose to pursue an MBA at the Yale School of Management and worked as a summer equities analyst on Wall Street, where she says she loved “delving into the details of earnings reports and economic cycles.” Though she spent a few years working in management consulting at Bain & Company...
...MBAs so concerned with increasing their personal wealth that they ignore ethics and their responsibilities to society?” So asks the introduction to the MBA Oath, a code of conduct written and publicized by a group of second-year students at Harvard Business School this spring. By becoming a signatory, MBAs pledge, among other noble things, to “act with utmost integrity and pursue [their] work in an ethical manner.” As of yesterday, about 40 percent of the approximately 900 members in the HBS Class of 2009 had signed the online oath...
Anderson said the push to create an MBA Oath began in earnest after he met with Nohria and his colleague Rakesh Khurana, whose research has focused on reforming management education...