Schools pave path to aboriginal business success – BiV

More First Nations students navigate post-secondary business training as aboriginal high school graduation notches to all-time high

Squamish Nation member Sheryl Fisher-Rivers originally planned to do her MBA at Harvard University.

She studied hard and applied several times but did not have high enough marks on her graduate management admissions test in her first two attempts.

Her third try was lucky, she told Business in Vancouver.

It was 2012 and she was then applying for admission to the Ivy League institution despite lacking a key accreditation: a bachelor’s degree.