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John H. McArthur Canadian Fellowship  

The John H. McArthur Canadian Fellowship is named after the former dean of Harvard Business School (1980-1995) and British Columbia native John H. McArthur.

The Black Family Fellowship for Veterans

Administered by the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, The Black Family Fellowship supports U.S. veterans and active-duty military students pursue advanced degrees.

Junior Achievement Fellowship – Harvard MBA

Theodore Vail, president of American Telephone & Telegraph, Horace Moses, president of Strathmore Paper Co., and Massachusetts Senator Murray Crane launched Junior Achievement in 1919.

The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (MBA 1959) established the Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship in 1988 to support students from the nonprofit sector to pursue an MBA at HBS.

Fellowship is offered only in the first year in addition to any need-based fellowship awards.

The John C. Phelan (MBA 90) Forward Fellowship was established in 2018 at Harvard Business School to encourage candidates from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds to target prestigious institutions like Harvard.

Harvard Business School has a unique fellowship - The Recognizing Individuals Seeking Equity (RISE). The fund is designed to support MBA candidates with consistent, long-standing, and demonstrable IMPACT on underrepresented communities of color in the United States, serving Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, and other underrepresented communities within the US.

The Seven-Up Bottling Company, to celebrate its 50th anniversary, announced the 7UP Harvard Business School Scholarship to support potential leaders in Nigeria to complete their MBA from Harvard Business School.

Finance candidates have a wide range of fellowship options in top schools. One such opportunity is the Orbis Investment Management fellowship that supports candidates for a career in Investment Management. The function is a fast-declining niche in Finance, with candidates showing preference for the lucrative VC and PE functions.

In the third part of the Stanford MBA series, we cover scholarships, loans, and financial aid. Read the first part – Stanford MBA Class Profile Trends and Total Fee, and the second part – Stanford MBA Curriculum Analysis.

MBA programs in Japan are rare. Applicants often target M7 schools. For such students, Uniqlo - the Japanese Retailer, initiated a fellowship to support education in two Harvard University schools – Harvard Business School and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

The fellowship is targeted for students with no corporate sponsorship.

Established in 2006, the Boustany Foundation supports funding for The University of Cambridge and Harvard Business School.

Internship Requirement: As part of the scholarship, the scholars are required to complete a two-month unpaid internship at the University of Monaco. Lodging, travel, and food expenses are covered for the internship.

The Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF), started in 1975, supports meritorious students from Hispanic/Latino ethnicity (at least one-quarter – one grandparent should be Hispanic) to pursue their MBA or Master’s or undergraduate program. Over the past five decades, HSF has disbursed over $675 million in scholarships.

The Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA), formed in 1906, is an organization that represents public finance executives in the United States and Canada.

In 2016, Phil Knight – Founder of Nike, and John Hennessy – Chairman of Alphabet Inc., established the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program (KHS) at Stanford University. The $750 million endowment fund is aimed at building leaders committed to solving problems of global scale, from climate change, healthcare gaps, efficiency in government, and access to education.

The Kilts Marketing Fellowship at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, established in 2006, is named after James M. Kilts, a distinguished alumnus instrumental in selling Gillette to Procter and Gamble for $57B.

Awarded annually, the Kilts Marketing Fellowship supports all three Booth MBA programs -Full-Time, Evening and Weekend.

Karen and Michael Herman established The Herman Family Fellowship for Women Entrepreneurs in 1995 to support female students with entrepreneurial aspirations. In addition to financial aid, the fellowship offers exclusive access and networking opportunities to annual reunions sponsored by the Herman family and the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Established in 1998, the Canfield Private Equity Fellowship supports applicants with a demonstrable interest in continuing or entering the Private Equity function. The award is named after Phil Canfield, an alumnus of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with an MBA in 1996.

In the third part of the Tuck MBA series, we cover scholarships, fellowships, sponsorship, loans, and financial aid. Read the first part – Tuck MBA Class Profile Trends and Total Fee, and the second part – Tuck MBA Curriculum Analysis.