{"id":668671,"date":"2010-02-18T15:58:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T20:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=38540"},"modified":"2010-02-18T15:58:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T20:58:18","slug":"business-schools-tap-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/668671","title":{"rendered":"Business Schools Tap Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, Augusto Giacoman was commanding about 30 soldiers and leading raids in Iraq. Now he spends his days in classrooms alongside former bankers, engineers and other civilians earning a master&#8217;s in business administration.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Giacoman, a retired U.S. Army officer, is evidence of a growing effort among business schools to lure ex-military members into M.B.A. programs, where they are prized for their leadership skills and ability to bring an alternate perspective to the classroom, say school administrators.<\/p>\n<p>At Harvard Business School, veterans currently make up 3% of the class of 2011&#8217;s 930 students\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703444804575071231319849408.html\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, Augusto Giacoman was commanding about 30 soldiers and leading raids in Iraq. Now he spends his days in classrooms alongside former bankers, engineers and other civilians earning a master&#8217;s in business administration. Mr. Giacoman, a retired U.S. Army officer, is evidence of a growing effort among business schools to lure ex-military members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2651,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2NX1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2651"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}