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Howard Tapper of Tapper's Diamonds & Fine Jewelry with Natalie Kulbersh
as she models watches and jewelry during Tapper's International Watch
Show and South Sea Pearl event in December

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Jeweler goes to Harvard to give his
business a competitive edge.

ate student in economics at nearby
Brandeis University. sat in on one
Associate Editor
of the lectures, and decided to do it,"
Tapper
said.
oward Tapper of Tapper's
His
impetus
for the course: "With
Diamonds & Fine Jewelry in
the
business
climate
continually
West Bloomfield has spent
changing
and
with
Detroit's
economy,*
three weeks each of the last three
how
can
we
[Tapper's
Jewelry]
differ-
years — and a total of $60,000 —
entiate
ourselves
[from
the
competi-
investing in himself and his company.
tion] and continue to grow?"
Tapper received a certificate Friday,
The first year of the course, the
March 31, from Harvard University
students
covered business in general
after completing its fabled Owners,
and
commonalities
between differ-
Presidents and Managers course. It
ent
types
of
businesses.
The second
involved three intensive weeks each
year
concentrated
on
growing
the
spring on the Cambridge, Mass., cam-
-
business.
This
year,
the
focus
was
on
pus, learning with 100 students from
implementation
through
strategy
and
27 countries.
management
—
"how
you're
going
to
"Networking with owners and CEOs
be
different,"
said
Tapper.
from all over the world — that has -
Harvard uses the "case study" meth-
been one of the most valuable things:'
od,
giving the students real-life case
said Tapper. His classmates represent
history
problems from different busi-
the oil, insurance, real estate and man-
nesses.
The students study the case on
ufacturing industries, among others.
their
own,
debate its issues in student
One, from Sri Lanka, owns the world's
meetings
and
then discuss it again in
largest tire plant.
class
with
a
professor.
Tapper decided to take the course
"It's a very rigorous program;' said
three years ago at the suggestion of
his son, Mark, who then was a gradu-
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