Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dean says the MBA has only been seen as a "ticket" within the last 20 years. Sheila Burke (MPA '82), chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.), says it will take time for a Kennedy School degree to build the credibility and exposure...
...insists that technical reasons are to blame for the snail-paced progress. But the bigger obstacle may be political. Some $8 billion has accumulated in an aviation trust fund dedicated to improving air safety; the money has been piling up from an 8% tax on every airline passenger's ticket. Many in the aviation industry contend that Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole, who is FAA Administrator Donald Engen's boss, has been cowed by the White House Office of Management and Budget into holding these assigned funds in reserve against the federal deficit. "Hogwash!" says OMB Director James Miller...
...Harvard business school has 32,000 M.B.A.s in the world of trade, where many have traded up: 45% of the class of '49 are either chief executive officers or chief operating officers. For anyone seeking access to such power, the Harvard ticket can be pure gold. "There is no question," says one Harvard administrator, "that you can get into doors that otherwise would be closed." Moreover, in the best business fashion the Harvard B school makes money by selling each year 2.5 million copies of its own celebrated case studies to 3,000 educational institutions and corporations worldwide...
First came Columbia University architect Joseph Hudnut '09, who assumed the deanship of the newly-formed school. At the time, Hudnut was a hot ticket and his "lectures throughout the country were creating a sensation" according to GSD historian and visiting professor Anthony Alofsin '71. And then came Gropius...
...dean says the MBA has only been seen as a "ticket" within the last 20 years. Sheila Burke (MPA '82), chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.), says it will take time for a Kennedy School degree to build the credibility and exposure...