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...Oliver Thomas, summers off from Oxford University meant time spent in an office tower, working with CEOs and top executives as an investment banker or accountant. For Lisa B. Schwartz ’03, internships at the U.N. and the Supreme Court of the United States offered a chance to relax from the hectic pace of maintaining...
Thomas, 23, started at Harvard Business School (HBS) this fall after graduating from Oxford University. Along with ten other students in this class, he comes to the prestigious B-School right out of college. For these students, Harvard Business School’s Early Career Initiative—which aims to attract students within three years of graduating college—was just the ticket...
After studying at Harvard College, Oxford and Harvard Law School, Koh worked as a law clerk and practiced at the Covington and Burling law firm and the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. He then returned to New Haven and joined the faculty of Yale Law School...
...those who cannot bear the thought that “medieval” Cambridge and Oxford might have used paper...you’re right, and to a great extent they still do. A remarkable amount of business, from distribution of grades and scholarships to communication with friends, is done via paper and campus mail. It is not the fastest system existing in the world, but it is the most personalized and least stressful I’ve ever experienced. Course registration, by the way, is done in highly personalized discussion with advisors followed by a quick submission...
...already-hectic schedules of the term’s first weeks. One imagines that the current system’s archaic array of hand-filled forms and in-person visits is not all that different from the way scholars cleared their studies with the dons at Medieval Cambridge and Oxford; the transition to online registration seems almost less a matter of joining the twenty-first century than of leaving the fourteenth behind...