Newly minted News International executive Will Lewis is the latest in a long line of media professionals who have attended Harvard Business School to study what Monkey likes to think of as a "mini MBA". "Advanced management course" alumni include Dawn Airey, now at Channel Five, Greg Dyke and former broadcasting minister Lord Carter. The Murdoch empire also sent David Yelland to the east coast in 2003 – at a cost of £50,000 – only for the former Sun editor to leave for a career in PR shortly afterwards. Presumably it is a consolation, of sorts, to have bagged Lewis a year after he did the Harvard course, particularly as his fees were paid by his former employers – the Barclay brothers.
