When Neala Ameerali saw an opportunity to participate in a program at Harvard Business School (HBS), she jumped at the chance.<\/p>\n
\u201cI heard about the Harvard Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) from one of my fraternity brothers in Alpha Kappa Psi,\u201d said Ameerali, a senior with a dual major in finance and management information systems in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU). \u201cThis program gives undergraduates a chance to see what MBA work is like at Harvard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ameerali completed the application even though she felt her chances were small for this highly competitive program. But in May, she learned she was among the 80 students accepted.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember my mom shouting for joy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Founded more than two decades ago, SVMP is a one-week management training program for promising college seniors designed to increase diversity and opportunity in business education and leadership.<\/p>\n
Living in residence halls, participants analyzed HBS cases of real management situations, worked together in study groups and attended classes taught by Harvard professors.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe professors were so enthusiastic and the Harvard Business School Case method is an exciting way to learn,\u201d said Ameerali, who spent the rest of her summer as an intern at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Miami.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s curriculum included cases on IKEA, restaurant chain Benihana of Tokyo, basketball star LeBron James, car-sharing service Zipcar and T-shirt maker Threadless. Social events and panel discussions with current HBS students and SVMP alumni also took place.<\/p>\n
Harvard does not disappoint.<\/em><\/p>\n Ameerali had lofty notions of what Harvard would be like; happily, the prestigious school lived up to her expectations.<\/p>\n \u201cWalking around campus I couldn\u2019t help but think of all the great people who studied there,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s quite a beautiful place, with impressive buildings and New England splendor.\u201d<\/p>\n Ameerali is working on another \u201clong shot,\u201d she reported. She is preparing to complete her application for graduate school at Harvard.<\/p>\n \u201cMy goal is an MBA, then perhaps a career as a financial advisor,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Neala Ameerali saw an opportunity to participate in a program at Harvard Business School (HBS), she jumped at the chance. \u201cI heard about the Harvard Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) from one of my fraternity brothers in Alpha Kappa Psi,\u201d said Ameerali, a senior with a dual major in finance and management information […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[48,1993],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14248"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29529,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14248\/revisions\/29529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}