Wharton Puts First-Year MBA Courses Online for Free
Wharton is now offering four core courses from its highly ranked full-time MBA program on the online learning platform Coursera.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Louis Lavelle | Source: “BusinessWeek” | Subjects: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources, Online & Distance MBA
MBA Class Size: Is Bigger Better?
Smaller classes are believed to produce a better educational experience, but some of world’s best schools have the most crowded classrooms.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Louis Lavelle | Source: “BusinessWeek” | Subject: Choosing a Program
Does Working Before B-School Cost Grads $112,000?
Is the admissions strategy followed by the world’s most elite business schools cheating MBAs out of a small fortune?
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Louis Lavelle | Source: “BusinessWeek” | Subjects: About the MBA Degree, Financing Your MBA
For MBAs, Faculty Research Pays Off
About five years ago, Warren Bennis and James O’Toole penned an article for the Harvard Business Review called “How Business Schools Lost Their Way.” It was, in many ways, the shot heard round the world. (I was visiting b-schools in China when it came out and people were talking about it there. The same day.) Their premise: that way too much of what passes for … [ Read more ]
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Louis Lavelle | Source: “BusinessWeek” | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Rating Agency Begins Grading Business Schools
With the Dec. 1, 2009 sale of Businessweek to Bloomberg LP, the magazine’s former owner, the McGraw-Hill Companies, officially exited the b-school ranking business. It now appears that the company wants back in. Credit Rating and Information Services of India (CRISIL), a rating agency that’s majority owned by McGraw-Hill’s Standard & Poor’s unit, yesterday announced the launch of a new rating service for business schools.
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Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Louis Lavelle | Source: “BusinessWeek” | Subjects: International MBA Issues, MBA Program Rankings
New Feature Brings More Transparency to MBA Rankings
Over the years, Bloomberg Businessweek has been criticized for a lack of transparency concerning our ranking methodology. So in an effort to be responsive to those complaints, we recently made a change to the interactive tables we published on Nov. 11, as part of our ranking of full-time MBA programs.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Louis Lavelle | Source: “BusinessWeek” | Subject: MBA Program Rankings
Wanted: The Next Great Management Idea
Here’s a chance for the world’s MBA students to put their expensive education to work and maybe even make a few bucks in the process.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Louis Lavelle | Source: “BusinessWeek” | Subject: B-School Events & Competitions
GMAC Unveils Sample Questions For New GMAT
Anybody who will be taking the GMAT in the near future might want to sit up and pay attention to this.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Louis Lavelle | Source: “BusinessWeek” | Subject: GMAT
A Rank Offense to B-Schools?
Three professors say efforts to score higher ratings on magazine lists — like BusinessWeek’s — promote educational mediocrity and short-change students.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Louis Lavelle | Source: “BusinessWeek” | Subjects: MBA Program Rankings, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
The CEO Trap
Article examines the trend toward viewing the CEO as a superhero and putting him/her in a position to satisfy Wall Street or be fired.
Content: Article | Authors: Anthony Bianco, Louis Lavelle | Source: “BusinessWeek” | Subject: Corporate Governance