While the business schools at Harvard, Columbia, Wharton and Duke offer full alumni status to advanced management program participants, schools such as Northwestern University's KelloggSchoolofManagement, the Universityof Chicago Graduate Schoolof Business and Dartmouth's Tuck School grant only partial alumni status.
"You keep business on you, so to speak, when you're trying to keep on top of everything else in your life, " says Brian Uzzi, professor of leadership at Northwestern University's KelloggSchoolofManagement.