Content written by Jonathan Moules and published by The Financial Times
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Extracted Content: Lifelong football fan Harish Jani, 68, says he has no plans to retire from his “dream” job as head of finance at Crystal Palace, a club in the English Premier League. But last year he persuaded chairman Steve Parish to allow him to take a 12-month sabbatical to achieve a major ambition: to study full-time for an MBA.
“I love literature and I like politics,” Mr Jani says. “But I felt that having spent a lifetime looking after finance it would be better to do a degree that used my skills.”
Last month, Mr Jani began his course at London’s Cass Business School, where he is almost three times the age of the youngest student. But he is far from alone in being an older MBA candidate.