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...HIGHER EDUCATION 100 Age, in years, of Harvard University's Masters in Business Administration program, the world's oldest 500,000 Expected number of MBA graduates globally in 2008. In China, the figure has gone from zero to 30,000 in the past 10 years...
Think of it as the Japanese Mardi Gras. Held in May, the 350-year-old Sanja Matsuri festival brings 1.5 million revelers to Asakusa in eastern Tokyo to honor the three founders of the district's Sensoji - a Buddhist temple that is the city's oldest. The throng, more densely packed than any rush-hour train, is an unforgettable spectacle. Young and old are adorned in festive clothes, and pant with the effort of bearing dozens of mikoshi (portable shrines) through Asakusa's 44 residential blocks, while yakuza in loincloths proudly sport their full-body tattoos in a normally forbidden...
...good for beginners and not as bitter or medicinal as the jamu more experienced drinkers enjoy. For lunch, I've always loved Warung Nasu Ibu Eha, tel: (62-22) 426 2745, a little food stall deep in the heart of Pasar Cihapit, one of the city's oldest markets. I've been eating there since I was a kid and the menu still hasn't changed. I love the perkedel (corn fritters), rice noodles and the fried tofu. Or you could try picking something up at Het Snoephuis, an 80-year-old Dutch bakery also known by its Indonesian name...
...original version of this article referred to Harvard as having ?the world?s oldest master's of business administration program,? dating back to 1908. While Harvard was the first institution to offer a graduate business degree formally known as an MBA, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth is in fact the oldest graduate business school, having first offered a degree in what it called administration and finance back in 1900 (the school began referring to its degree...
...Feeney, the award gives a measure of validation to his work, but the former member of The Advocate, Harvard’s oldest literary publication, said he doesn’t expect it to change his future writing...