????哈佛和大多數(shù)一流商學(xué)院一樣，多年來(lái)一直希望MBA申請(qǐng)者至少應(yīng)該具備一定的工作經(jīng)驗(yàn),。從十年前開(kāi)始,，哈佛商學(xué)院就已經(jīng)停止了招收完全沒(méi)有工作經(jīng)驗(yàn)的本科畢業(yè)生。但利奧波德稱,，為此哈佛損失了太多優(yōu)秀的申請(qǐng)者,，因?yàn)橄Ｍ缛胀瓿蓪W(xué)業(yè)的學(xué)生們都申請(qǐng)去了法學(xué)院、公共政策學(xué)院和博士生項(xiàng)目,。2+2計(jì)劃是“走進(jìn)本科校園,，匯聚學(xué)生人氣”的一種方式。利奧波德稱：“然后我們可以談?wù)凪BA學(xué)位,，它不只是打開(kāi)一扇門(mén),，而是讓很多門(mén)都保持開(kāi)啟狀態(tài)。我們不想讓你現(xiàn)在就入學(xué),。但不妨從現(xiàn)在就開(kāi)始考慮考慮,？”
????哈佛商學(xué)院最希望通過(guò)2+2計(jì)劃吸引“科技、工程和數(shù)學(xué)專業(yè)的學(xué)生,。他們不太懂商業(yè),，但最終仍會(huì)從商，并且有所建樹(shù)，因?yàn)樗麄冎廊绾巫鍪?，如何制造,，如何思考?！崩麏W波德稱,，哈佛可以在這個(gè)基礎(chǔ)之上傳授商業(yè)技能，合作技巧和說(shuō)服藝術(shù),?！坝悬c(diǎn)像既會(huì)反手，又會(huì)正手,?！?/p>
????利奧波德和她的同事們每年到訪約60家本科學(xué)校，宣講2+2計(jì)劃,，有些學(xué)校傳統(tǒng)上并非不是哈佛的生源地,。（“我們喜歡位于密歇根州弗林特的凱特林大學(xué)（Kettering），”即前通用汽車(chē)學(xué)院（General Motors Institute）,，以工程學(xué)院和合作項(xiàng)目著稱）如果說(shuō)有什么問(wèn)題的話,，那就是這個(gè)項(xiàng)目近年來(lái)太成功了，產(chǎn)生了利奧波德稱為“松鼠鉆進(jìn)喂鳥(niǎo)器”的現(xiàn)象,，也就是喧賓奪主的問(wèn)題,。
????被利奧波德比作“松鼠”的是“那些還在娘胎里就知道自己將來(lái)希望成為投資銀行家的人”，他們把2+2計(jì)劃視為捷徑,。倒不是利奧波德對(duì)投資銀行家有什么看法,。（“我有一些最慷慨、最友善的同學(xué)就在華爾街工作,。因此,，我絕不會(huì)，你明白的……”）利奧波德說(shuō),，只是松鼠雖然很可愛(ài),，但卻具有一定侵略性，它們最終擠走了鳥(niǎo)兒,。接著,，她講了另一個(gè)故事。
????“故事發(fā)生在招生辦公室的樓下,，”利奧波德說(shuō)?！爱?dāng)時(shí)所有人都在樓下集合,，個(gè)個(gè)都很緊張。他們?cè)谙耄猩k公樓簡(jiǎn)直比牙醫(yī)診所還可怕,。我下樓叫一個(gè)人,，帶她上樓面試。遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)地,，我看到這位年輕姑娘在樓梯半道停住了,。她說(shuō)：‘稍等，我得下樓一趟,?！f(shuō)，她剛才告訴坐在她旁邊的人,，到了3點(diǎn)鐘就應(yīng)該自己上樓去面試,。“我必須得和他們說(shuō)一聲,，不是這么回事,，到時(shí)候會(huì)有人帶我們上樓?！?/p>
????“這些事情真的會(huì)觸動(dòng)我,，”利奧波德說(shuō),?！斑@么年輕，在全力投入一件事的時(shí)候還能夠想到別人,，真的很了不起,?！变浫?！
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????Like most top-tier B-schools, Harvard has long preferred that its MBA candidates arrive with at least some job experience. It stopped accepting students straight out of college a decade ago. But according to Leopold, Harvard was losing too many fast-track candidates to law schools, public policy schools, and Ph.D. programs. The 2+2 option was conceived as a way to "get on a college campus and attract a crowd," Leopold says. "We could then talk about this degree that doesn't open one door, it keeps many doors open. We don't want you to come now. But what if you think about it now?"
????The students Harvard wants to attract most through 2+2 are "STEM people -- science, technology, engineering and math. People that don't know a lot about business, but they're going to end up in business, and they're going to be really good at it because they know how to do things, make things, think through things." Start with that, Leopold says, add what Harvard can teach -- business know-how, collaborative skills, the art of persuasion --and "it's like having a backhand and a forehand."
????Leopold and her colleagues promote 2+2 with visits to about 60 college campuses a year, not all of them traditional Harvard feeder schools. ("We love Kettering in Flint," the former General Motors Institute, known for its engineering school and co-op program) If anything, the program has been too successful in recent years, giving rise to a predicament Leopold describes as "squirrels at the bird feeder."
????The squirrels in Leopold's analogy are "people who've known they want to be investment bankers since they were in diapers," and see 2+2 as a shortcut. Not that Leopold has a problem with investment bankers. ("Some of the most generous and kind classmates I have are on Wall Street. Therefore I would never, you know, geez….") It's just that, well, cute as they are, squirrels are aggressive, Leopold says. They crowd out the songbirds. Then she tells one more story.
????"It happened downstairs in the admission office," Leopold says. "Everybody congregates down there. They're all nervous. They're all thinking this is worse than the dentist's office. I go down to pick someone up and bring her upstairs for an interview. And this other young woman I was watching from a distance, she stops halfway up the stairs and says, 'Wait, I need to go back downstairs.' She had told the person sitting next to her that she should just go up the stairs at 3:00. She said, 'I have to tell them no, someone will come and get you.'
????"Those are the things that really get me," says Leopold. "Wow, when you're so young and self-absorbed and you can already think about somebody else, that's, like, really beautiful." Accept! |
