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...night, WIB played a clip from HBO’s Real Sports series showing Irvine plying his craft. When it finished, Irvine took the stage and began recounting his career in the business of gambling. Irvine, an MIT graduate who later earned a masters degree from Cornell and an MBA from Purdue, told how Edward Thorp’s book, “Beat the Dealer,” started the card-counting movement back in the 1970s, about the $55,000 he won at Trump Plaza in Las Vegas the first weekend he played with the MIT blackjack team...
...listened to what they said, but I thought there was great value to an MBA,” Sheehan said. “It forces you to make decisions which you don’t necessarily get to do at a junior level at these banks. Maybe a person at Goldman doesn’t have to go to business school, but that might not be where I want to be long-term...
Sheehan also said that, as a woman, there was particular value to the MBA...
...decide to have children, I think that getting an MBA would help me get back into the workforce at a later time,” she said...
Despite feeling so strongly about the MBA, Sheehan said she deferred admission because more experience would make her a better, more-directed student...