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Jose Ferreira (Wikpedia), Founder and CEO, MBA Harvard Business School 1997

Knewton COO, David Liu, @dliu8, (Columbia, MBA) at Georgetown's inaugural Innovation Summit, April 2012

Death toll in Aleppo University bombing set to rise

World University News, January 16, 2012

At least 87 people – most of them students – have been reported killed in two explosions at the Aleppo University campus in northern Syria and the death toll is expected to rise. ("are more than 150 people injured by the explosions, many of them severely")

A government-run university, it is Syria’s second-largest higher education institution after Damascus University.

According to the state news agency SANA, the blasts caused casualties both among students taking their first day of exams...

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement: “Such heinous attacks are unacceptable and must stop immediately. All combating parties in Syria must abide by their obligations under international humanitarian law.

Irina Bokova, director general of UNESCO, said: “It is truly shocking and distressing to see so many young people dedicated to pursuing their education in the midst of strife lose their life to senseless violence.” She called on all those involved in the fighting to respect the right to education.

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On 3 May, Syrian forces raided student dormitories during anti-government protests, firing teargas and live rounds of ammunition, killing four students, wounding 28 and leaving part of the campus in flames. Around 50 students were arrested.

Meet the New MBA Journal Writers - Businessweek

Article of September 12, 2011 of Francesca Di Meglio

The newest crop of writers includes nontraditional candidates—a journalist, a pollster, and a Google "jack of all trades"—all yearning to make their mark

The MBA Journals, which challenge incoming MBA students to share their business school journey with Bloomberg Businessweek readers, have become a rite of passage of sorts. Many MBA applicants read the journals in hopes of discovering what a typical day will be like on a particular campus, how they’ll ever find an internship or full-time job, and what kind of social life they can expect...