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Most people would think twice before abandoning a high-flying executive lifestyle in Paris in exchange for an insecure, meagerly paid job in one of Europe's poorest countries. Yet this is exactly what Bozidar Djelic, a partner with consultancy McKinsey & Company, did when he accepted an offer to become Finance Minister in post-Milosevic Serbia. "I did not hesitate for a moment," Djelic recalls from his modest office in downtown Belgrade. "I have no doubt that this government can pull the country back on its feet...
They visited Corporation member Conrad K. Harper's home in Connecticut, were escorted out of D. Ron Daniel's office at McKinsey and Co., and leafleted the Harvard Club of New York...
Crowley jokes that the PBHA alumni association probably will never be able to wine and dine students like the consulting firm McKinsey can, but that the group will make students aware of service related jobs and opportunities available after graduation...
...choosing to attend Harvard, we chose to surround ourselves with the academic upper crust, and we should therefore be compared with and evaluated against the performance of our peers. And if the coveted Harvard diploma is to mean what it is meant to mean--namely the combined McKinsey, Mozart and Mercedes of the academic world--then our GPA's should reflect that rigor. Even if the average Harvard students can perform above the average elsewhere, they shouldn't expect--or be able--to do as well at Harvard...
...Matt Kramer '98, director of college recruiting for McKinsey & Company, said the company expects to "be within eight to ten of the number of offers we extended last year...