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Why CEOs have Liberal Arts Degrees

Mills Scofield

Some of today's top CEOs were history, political science, sociology, chinese and music majors in college. A career advisor once told me that those who pursue liberal arts majors and enter finance, consulting or technology are not the exceptions. She's spending the summer in Dhaka doing microfinance. They are the norm.

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Why CEOs have Liberal Arts Degrees

Mills Scofield

Some of today's top CEOs were history, political science, sociology, chinese and music majors in college. A career advisor once told me that those who pursue liberal arts majors and enter finance, consulting or technology are not the exceptions. She's spending the summer in Dhaka doing microfinance. They are the norm.

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The Microfinance Contagion Scenario

Harvard Business Review

So far, the Andhra Pradesh (AP) microfinance crisis has largely been viewed as a local issue, with relatively little impact beyond AP or India's borders. Other microfinance crises, in Bolivia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, and Bosnia, have not spread beyond the borders of a particular country. That could likely have consequences.