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Tuck to Subsidize Student Internships @StacyBlackman

"The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College hopes to give its first-year students an advantage by offering private equity firms that hire them for the summer an added bonus in the form of a salary subsidy, the Wall Street Journal reports. With private equity firms focused on trimming expenses, and in some cases personnel, finding a summer internship in this economy can be tough going.  This special program will pay up to half of a student intern’s salary if a private equity firm or portfolio company takes them on as a summer associate, according to Colin Blaydon, who mentioned the program at a recent event sponsored by the Association for Corporate Growth’s Boston chapter, WSJ reveals..."
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UCLA’s Anderson School of Business Asks Applicants to Submit Audio Essays

"Applicants this year to the Anderson School of Business at the University of California at Los Angeles were invited to submit essays in audio format, the Financial Times reports.  Though the option was voluntary, 70 percent of applicants for the class of 2011 chose to record their essays, Mae Jennifer Shores, Anderson’s admissions director, told the FT. Furthermore, the submissions were “ethnic, gender and country neutral,” Shores says,with international applicants as eager to participate as U.S. students..."
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Video Tour of the Haas School of Business

A video tour of the Haas School of Business done for the CEO Exchange

Wharton Leadership Conference: Leading in a Dynamic and Unpredictable World

The 13th annual Wharton Leadership Conference is scheduled for June 16 in Philadelphia on “Leading in a Dynamic and Unpredictable World.”

For information on the conference, click here, http://leadershipconference.wharton.upenn.edu/2009/index.shtml.

Speakers including DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman and presidential historian Richard Norton Smith are described at http://leadershipconference.wharton.upenn.edu/2009/speakers.shtml.

For registration, go to http://leadershipconference.wharton.upenn.edu/2009/registration.html.

Hands-on Learning at U. Michigan (Ross) and London Business School

"The Multidisciplinary Action Project at Ross is the centerpiece of the first-year curriculum. In the course, student teams are paired with companies in the U.S. and abroad to complete a significant consulting assignment. The teams work for Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs and non-profits on projects related to business plan development, human resource planning, marketing, process improvement, growth strategies and more...

At London Business School, second-year students undertake a paid consulting engagement to solve a company’s critical business problem. Teams of two or three students work with a company’s management to determine the project’s scope, deliverables and remuneration..."
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