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Harvard Business School unveiled an initiative today that will conditionally guarantee college undergraduates a place in its MBA program. The initiative, which the school described as a first-of-its-kind deferred MBA admissions program, is called HBS 2+2, and its designed to reach out to qualified college students, especially those who may not typically consider business as a career path, the school said. HBS 2+2 will give undergraduates a guaranteed place in a future Harvard Business School MBA class, contingent upon their graduation from college and the successful completion of two years of approved work experience, the school said. More : boston.com

Attention liberal-arts majors: You too can get an M.B.A. Thats the message Harvard Business School wants to send with a program launching today. Called 2+2, the initiative allows college students to lock in a spot in Harvards M.B.A. program by the end of their junior year. Before they start classes, accepted students must work for two years. The school is providing free career counseling and other resources to help students secure these short-term positions. Other business schools, such as Carnegie Mellons Tepper School of Business and the University of Rochesters Simon Graduate School of Business, have adopted similar measures in recent years.

A National University of Singapore (NUS) undergraduate edged out a fellow schoolmate and a Wharton undergraduate to snag top honours at the MAS-ESS essay writing competition. Melvin Koh beat Leong Chee Kian (NUS) and See Kok Heng (Wharton) for the $5,000 cash prize. The 24-year-old Economics major has won the prize for the second year running. More : .channelnewsasia.com

Mr. and Mrs. James S. Wey of Needham, Mass., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Susan M. Wey, to William Colyer Crum, son of Prof. and Mrs. Colyer Crum of Weston, Mass., and Sunapee, N.H. A September wedding is planned in Needham. Miss Wey, an engineer at Honeywell Electro-Optics Operations in Lexington, Mass., was graduated cum laude from Wellesley College and next month expects to receive an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University. Her father is with the trust department of Hale & Dorr in Boston. Mr. Crum, who is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, is a

The Best Undergraduate B-Schools Undergrad business programs are getting MBA-like respect, and competition to get into them is hotter than ever. Heres how the top schools stack up in our first-ever exclusive rankings Its Thursday morning in Huntsman Hall, and students in T-shirts and jeans are filing into Nicholas Souleles Finance 101 class. Its the kind of class that, at another school, might take place in a cavernous 500-seat auditorium, with students doodling in their notebooks or texting each other from the back row. But this is the University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School. Here, the class is made up of

Young Antiguan gains MBA Another Antiguan has made her family and country proud. Michelle S. Bailey Baptiste graduated earlier this month with a master of business administration degree from Florida Metropolitan University. During her studies she concentrated in general management which complemented her undergrad studies in international business. She is the daughter of the Deputy Comptroller of Customs, Winston Bailey, and the late Lilian (Lucy) Bailey of Potters. More: antiguasun.com

Harvard Business School (HBS) today unveiled HBS 2+2, a first-of-its-kind deferred MBA admissions program designed to reach qualified college students, especially those who may not typically consider business as a career path or business education as a future option. This unique program will give undergraduates a guaranteed place in a future Harvard Business School MBA class, contingent upon their graduation from college and the successful completion of two years of approved work experience. Some of the worlds leading organizations such as Google and Teach for America have signed up as recruiting partners, receptive to hiring 2+2s for the work experience

MITs Sloan tops Harvard among recuiters Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Sloan business school ranked higher than Harvard Universitys business school in a survey published in Wednesdays Wall Street Journal. The research, conducted by the WSJ and Harris Interactive, examined what recruiters think of the nations top M.B.A programs. The rankings measured how appealing the business schools were to the corporate recruiters who hire their M.B.A. graduates. MITs Sloan ranked tenth while Harvard was placed at 14. Recruiters surveyed said Harvards shortcomings include an arrogant culture and graduates excessive salary demands. More : boston.bizjournals.com

Harvard Business School (HBS) in conjunction with the Harvard Business School India Research Center (IRC) today announced plans to offer its first executive education program in India in February 2008. The first-of-its-kind, Building a Global Enterprise in India will be taught by HBS senior faculty in Hyderabad and is specially designed for senior executives from India and around the region. The program is based on 10 years of extensive, on-the-ground HBS research in India. It uses cases tailored to the specific needs of companies operating in India and incorporates examples from companies in the region that have addressed similar challenges facing

In attempts to get more "liberal-arts students," Harvard Business School has come up with a groundbreaking (in the sense that several other schools do it) program called 2+2. You can lock in a place at Harvard Business School as early as your junior year of college but you have to work for two years after school. Google is one of the 30 companies on board to help HBS attract a more diverse student body. Translation - HBS needs more women. Figuring that its pitch to girls is already something along the lines of "You will find a husband, and we will

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