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MBA News: Conversations with HBS Dean, Jay Light

In this series published in the Financial Times, Harvard Dean Jay Light, contemplates Harvard Business School’s (HBS) leadership role among business schools and its evolution as it strives to incorporate disciplines outside of traditional management – namely public policy and medicine. Further, Dean Light discusses HBS’s ongoing efforts to attract younger candidates.

Links to the articles – vital reading for HBS aspirants – are offered below:

Harvard’s New Dean to Build ‘Intellectual Bridges’

Deferred Admission to Target the Young

Harvard Plans Masters Degree to Train Leaders for Public Sector.



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