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LaTeef took a circuitous route to the world of children’s books. She worked briefly in a law firm, got her MBA and wrote her first book: Working Women for the 21st Century: Fifty Women Reveal Their Pathways to Success, which featured Evert. LaTeef then established a women’s textile company called Pillow Talk, which made linens and pillowcases for cultural institutions. She sold it after seven years, and became the director of development of the Foreign Policy Association, a non-profit that seeks to educate the public about foreign policy...
...most visible of the school’s needs involves the campaign’s residential initiative—which seeks to improve student life at the school by enhancing the dormitories and apartments that house MBA candidates...
Over the past five years, HBS has more than doubled its budget for MBA financial aid from $3.5 million to $8 million—endowed by a full 20 percent of the school’s endowment—but the average student aid amount stands at $16,500 out of an all-inclusive total cost of nearly $100,000 for the two-year program...
Richardson further cites the changing backgrounds of incoming MBA students as reason for increased aid spending. Aside from being more ethnically diverse, the candidates may have less than the previously standard four-to-five years of work experience...
Because the campaign has been in the planning stages for more than two years, it has not been directly shaped by the recent string of highly publicized corporate scandals such as those involving energy giant Enron—headed at one point by Jeffrey Skilling, who earned his MBA at Harvard...