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Old Sep 12, 2002 | 8:07 am
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zipual
 
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I thought it was BA. In one of my MBA classes way back when, we read a Harvard case analysis of them when they were going to start it. I cannot recall if they started it before AA did, or if they just discussed it before AA.
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