HBS Round One admit goes to silly, ultra-hip overpriced restaurant to celebrate, and makes it into The New Yorker.

OK, you say, I’ll go there too, and put up w. the high prices, lously service, and cold food, just LEMME IN!!!!!

Tables for Two

Fiamma

206 Spring St. (212-653-0100)

by Nick Paumgarten March 3, 2008

The New Yorker, March 3, 2008

With its high prices, ambitious cuisine, and faltering service, Fiamma has a bewildering …air. Mishandled decadence can seem cautionary…. The knowledge that Fiamma is part of a restaurant company called B. R. Guest prompts speculation about strategy: a foursome dining there one recent not too busy night, next to a table celebrating a woman’s admittance to Harvard Business School, decided that Fiamma’ s existence must have something to do with a strong euro and the proximity of the Soho Grand hotel.

During the evening, a bartender attempted to make a Martini without vermouth. Several dishes arrived cold. … A bottle of wine showed up twenty minutes after it was ordered, well after the main course had begun to cool….Is it snotty to grumble about such things? Perhaps, but not when you’re paying two hundred bucks a head.

DUH, SNARKY, SNARKY, SNARKY, I’LL PAY, JUST LEMME IN, A PERFECT PLACE TO CELEBRATE GETTING IN TO HBS, AND A CURTAIN RAISER ABOUT WHAT YOUR HBS EXPERIENCE WILL BE LIKE: EXCLUSIVE, FUN, BUBBLY, FAMOUS, AND IN TERMS OF MEAT AND POTATOS LEARNING, A BUST—–BUT WHO CARES???????????????????????????

Sandy, what is the basis for you saying that HBS is taking younger students?

If you did not in to Hor S, it may help to look in a mirror,but if that does not tell you anything, look at your driver’s license.

Who you gonna call??? When the Harvard Crimson wants the skinny on HBS, they know the source. . . .see about 12 other Crime stories featuring Da Guru right here http://hbsguru.com/media_hvcr.html

“The class used to be a smorgasbord, and now it’s a chef’s tasting menu,” Kreisberg said. “They’re breaking the class into micro-groups.”

Story below is somewhat garbled, my point was that HBS is running way younger, esp w. bankers and consultant types  and this set of grants would prob. be given to geezer types [MD’s, Ph.D’s etc. ] as a way of “harmlessly” and even smartly  adding age to the class, but keeping the bubbly youth focus on their core groups [IB, MC, MNC, etc. ]

HBS Puts Money Behind Life Sciences

Ten first-year Business School students to receive $20K for excellence in sciences

Published On 2/6/2008 2:51:36 AM

By PRATEEK KUMAR

Crimson Staff Writer

Harvard Business School will award 10 merit-based scholarships of $20,000 each beginning next fall to MBA students who show exceptional talent in the life sciences, the school announced in January.

The recent measure comes at a time when Harvard has focused on expanding its efforts in biological sciences, including beginning construction on a 589,000-square-foot complex for research and education in Allston.

The awards will be granted only to first-year students and will not affect their eligibility for need-based Fellowships, according to the school’s Web site.

Deirdre C. Leopold, a Business School staffer responsible for admissions and financial aid, said it was exciting for her to talk to applicants about “the synergy between science and business.”

By showing students with science backgrounds how their disciplines connected to the corporate world, Leopold said, she hopes “to show them business in a way that they have never thought of before.”

Discussions about the new initiative began about a year ago through the collaboration of the Business School dean, faculty, and admissions office, Leopold said. She added that unmarked fellowship funds would pay for the new grants.

The life science fellowships represent a “welcome wagon” to students in the sciences, said Sanford Kreisberg, who runs an independent consulting service for business school admissions.

He said he believed that the fellowships would attract older students by targeting applicants with medical or pharmaceutical experience, and that focusing on life sciences was a good choice for the Business School because of its comparative advantage in the field.

”In the battle with Stanford for who can be hipper, life sciences is one of the few advantages that the Northeast has vis-à-vis Silicon Valley,” he said.

Kreisberg also said the life science scholarships highlight the recent trend toward compartmentalization at the Business School.

“The class used to be a smorgasbord, and now it’s a chef’s tasting menu,” Kreisberg said. “They’re breaking the class into micro-groups.”

Kreisberg noted that age gaps between students would be further exacerbated by the recently-created “2+2” program, which admits college juniors to the Business School after two years in the workforce.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=521718