21 September,2018 07:37 AM IST | | A Correspondent
Maria Sharapova
Russian tennis beauty Maria Sharapova has said that she was in the company of people who had achieved more than her when she enrolled for a global management and leadership course at the prestigious Harvard Business School.
It was during her 15-month doping ban after testing positive for meldonium, which was added to the list of banned substances at the start of 2016, that she decided to register for a two-week course that could help her expand her candy business Sugarpova.
"It almost felt like a job because you wake up really early, you study for something, then you go and take all the classes. ... And while I was doing that, I was still trying to stay in shape and work out, so by the time Friday came around and everyone's like, 'Oh, we're going out for happy hour,' I was like, I don't think I can handle this. I need to go take a nap. I was surrounded by people that were older, wiser, that were much more accomplished in business than I personally was," Sharapova, whose long-term goal is to build her company into a lifestyle brand after she retires from tennis, told CNBC Make It.
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