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...must assume that Harvard would have chosen differently. First, the Harvard Business School (HBS) already enjoys the plush palatial environment which Oxford seems wary of creating. Second, the institutionalized study of business management is fully accepted among American universities. In fact, United States business schools graduate some 80,000 MBA's each year. If Said was incensed at the refusal of his generosity, HBS should be even more insulted--Oxford was explicitly denying the legitimacy of such an institution within the academy...
...appeal of such a simple explanation, as well as the patriotic sentiments that underlie it, the reasons for Oxford's decision may be more subtle. It should be noted that Oxford currently accepts students pursuing a masters degree in business education. In addition to the first class of MBA students who will graduate this year, Oxford also has initiated an undergraduate program for the joint study of economics and management. If British intellectual elitism makes the discipline of business studies an anathema, why do such programs exist? Apparently, Oxford is averse to the concept of a business school...
...tended to think that there was only one type of Harvard student--upper-middle-class and on their way to an MBA," says Hickey, who visited his old school over intersession. "But there is no typical Harvard student. That's where I was wrong...
...sure we'll be buying the essays ourselves and becoming very familiar with them," Director of Admissions for the MBA program at the Harvard Business School Jill Fadule told The Boston Globe...
...part of the problem this year as well. "There are many top undergraduates who don't even contemplate a career in business," she said. "We're...currently designing a program by which HBS women alums will actually go back to their undergraduate institutions and pitch the importance of an MBA...