Orientation Is Getting Longer

Business Week: "On a recent warm day in Pittsburgh, as one attendee recounts it, a middle-aged man with tufts of white hair and a broad grin, elicited a pledge of loyalty from about 200 incoming MBA students at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. 'He talked about commitment, and he asked, 'are you ready?'' says Wendy Hermann, the school's director of student services. 'And they all said, 'we are ready!''"