{"id":336127,"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.media\/index\/336127","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":4175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}