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HBS Launches New 2 + 2 Program

HBS 2+2 is a first-of-its-kind deferred MBA admissions program that reaches out to talented college juniors who might not usually consider business as a career path, particularly those studying science, healthcare, and engineering. Admitted students receive career planning assistance and a guaranteed place in a future MBA class, contingent upon graduation from college and successful completion of two years of approved work experience. To learn more about the program, go to: http://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/091307_2plus2.html

Thanks for Making Fall Reunions a Success!

Spectacular early fall weather greeted more than 1,500 alumni and their guests who came to campus during Reunion weekend to reconnect with classmates and the School. Over 30 HBS faculty members shared research on topics such as private equity, healthcare, and the Chinese economy. Videos of faculty presentations can be viewed online: http://video.hbs.edu/videotools/portal/reunions

View the Fall Reunion photo gallery: http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/reunions.html

Lifelong Learning

Alumni Travel: The Changing Faces of Jordan and Oman

Join HBS and your fellow alumni for an insider's glance into the two fascinating and hospitable countries of Jordan and Oman. Throughout the trip, briefings and meetings will offer in-depth insights into the challenges confronting these countries as they try to educate and modernize their societies.

For more information and to register go to: http://www.distant-horizons.com/hbsjordan/

Alumni Travel: Genghis Khan’s Mongolia

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to explore the ancient land of the Khans with fellow HBS alumni and friends. Kayak through pristine Lake Hovsgol in the north, considered the cleanest freshwater lake left on the planet. Camel trek through the mysterious and untamed Gobi Desert in the south. In between, travel on horseback through the central grass steppe, blanketed by endless blue sky.

For more information and to register please contact: http://www.globaladrenaline.com/hbs/mongolia2008.

Check the complete schedule of upcoming alumni travel programs: http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/travel/

From Executive Education
Effective Strategies forMedia Companies,
November 28–December 1, 2007

Find out how your company can take full advantage of the opportunities presented by disruptive technologies. In this course for senior media executives, you will develop and learn to implement new business models that will help your firm meet the two central challenges faced by media organizations today: getting noticed by audiences bombarded with an abundance of choices and getting paid for the content you provide. To learn more and to register, go to: http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/med_wn/

HBS alumni receive an exclusive 30 percent discount on open-enrollment Executive Education Programs. For more information, visit:
http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/lifelong_learning/execed_calendar.html

From Social Enterprise
A Primer on Corporate Responsibility

Looking for practical information on how to effectively integrate social responsibility into your corporate strategy? The Social Enterprise Initiative’s “Resources by Topic” website is a great place to start. For more information and to explore any of the eight featured topics, visit: http://www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/resources/

Faculty

HBS Working Knowledge: Dealing with the Irrational Negotiator

How do you negotiate with people who seem to act irrationally? Professors Deepak Malhotra and Max H. Bazerman advise managers to take a deep breath and ask three questions. Do these people lack good information? Are they operating with constraints I don’t know about? Are they holding onto hidden interests? Find out why Malhotra and Bazerman say savvy negotiators can keep a deal on track by resisting the impulse to label someone “irrational” in Working Knowledge: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5721.html.

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HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum that offers a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Register to receive Working Knowledge's daily RSS feed or weekly email: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/

Faculty in the News

In 1989, Professor Emeritus Michael Jensen wrote of the demise of the public corporation and the rise of private equity. Nearly 20 years later, Jensen is excoriating many private equity executives for destroying value, rather than creating it. Find out why Jensen says a new emphasis on fees and up front revenues are damaging the business model he championed and threatening to take down the sector in the New York Times: http://select.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/business/16gret.html (registration required).

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> New 2 + 2 Program
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Lifelong Learning
> Jordan and Oman
> Genghis Khan's Mongolia
> Effective Strategies
>.for Media Companies
> A Primer on
>.Corporate Responsibility

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> Malhotra and Bazerman
>.on Irrational Negotiators
> Jensen on the
>.rise of private equity

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