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Entering its second year, Harvard Business School’s 2+2 Program has seen a significant increase in student interest in advance of the July 1 application deadline, according to Managing Director of MBA Admissions Deirdre C. Leopold. While the Business School received 630 applications for the 2+2 program last year, over 2,200 prospective applicants have attended information sessions this year, Leopold said. “Interest on campuses has been very high,” she said. “We’ve been filling sessions. We’ve had people standing in hallways...
...Maybe HBS hasn’t been as proactive as it could be in casting the vision of the MBA as a modern need for businesspeople,” Chun said. “We need to show what we’re learning from this experience...
...hearing Dimon’s opinions and knowledge about today’s economy. “He’s a great speaker, has a lot to say, and has a very broad perspective leading a large financial institution through these times,” said second-year MBA student Filipp M. Brunshteyn. During the economic crisis, JPMorgan has at times been at the center of the media spotlight, purchasing Bear Sterns’ assets last March after the investment bank’s collapse. JPMorgan also accepted $25 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program last October. Second...
Shweta Agarwal, also an MBA candidate, agreed...
...laying off U.S. citizens before hiring H-1B visa holders, said Kevin Casey, the University’s chief lobbyist. “It may be that employment horizons are slightly smaller for those graduating from some of these programs,” Casey said. Roughly one third of MBA candidates at the Business School are international students, and 45 percent of MBA students enter the financial services industry upon graduation. University Provost Steven E. Hyman recently voiced opposition to the restrictions in a letter to Congressman Michael E. Capuano, who represents Cambridge in the U.S. House. Hyman wrote last...