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Interview: Chain reaction - FT.com | Sarah Willingham

Expanding empire: Sarah Willingham takes a seat in her part-owned London Cocktail Club

"It was curry that persuaded Sarah Willingham to pursue a master of business administration degree. After a decade working in the restaurant chain business – at Planet Hollywood and Pizza Express – the straight-talking 37-year-old was convinced the same model could be applied to Indian restaurants.

“I went to the [board of Pizza Express] with the idea of doing to Indian restaurants what we had done to pizzas: offer high-quality food at mid-market prices,” she says. “They looked at me and went, ‘No – we do pizzas. You’re barking mad.’ That was when I thought, if I don’t do this now, I never will, and I started thinking about doing an MBA.”..."
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Source: FT.com

Recruit for Your Board at Harvard Business School

"Organizations now have a more efficient way of finding leadership talent for their boards. Harvard Business School is proud to offer a resume database available for the identification and recruitment of potential board candidates.  The HBS Alumni Board of Directors Resume Database currently contains over 1,600 active profiles..."
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Source: HBS Board of Directors Resume Database

MBA Alumni of Top U.S. Business Schools - Top Executives, Top Dollar

"One way prospective students judge a business school is by the riches it bestows on graduates. Another benchmark is the size and quality of the alumni network. What follows is a look at both measures for 45 top MBA programs.

For each school, we list the median cash compensation—base salary and bonus—for MBA students in the first few post-MBA years and 20 years later. The data are supplied by PayScale, which gathers the information from online compensation tools that require people at various points in their careers to report their actual pay. And it’s enlightening to say the least. There are three schools where pay for MBAs who graduated 20 years ago is at least double what new grads are earning, and they’re not top-ranked schools..."
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Source: BusinessWeek