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The Best M.B.A. For The Buck

Is a business school degree worth the considerable investment of your time and money? Forbes’ rankings show which schools–elite, regional and international–offer the best return on your investment.

Content: Article | Source: Forbes | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Kellogg-Recanati Executive MBA Handbook

This website exemplifies the cooperative nature of MBAs (as opposed to the stereotypical hyper-competitive view). It summarises 27 courses from the prestigious Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA program (Israel). All content has been reviewed and approved by the professors of all 27 courses. Each course summary has a 1-page Summary and a multi-page detailed coverage. Best of all – it’s completely free.

Content: Online Resource | Author: Stuart Ballan | Source: KR04 | Subjects: Education, MBA Related

Roger Martin – Dean, Rotman School of Management a

Harvard Business School creates value through its ability to find great people, extract them from their companies, turn them into free agents, assemble them in one place in Boston, and then spit them out on an extremely predictable schedule in a manner that is user-friendly to people who want to hire them. It’s not the faculty members who are doing the most useful work at … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: MBA Related

Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?

“In our work with outstanding service organizations, we have found that they invariably hire for attitude and train for skills. Are street smarts attitudes or skills? If street smarts are attitudes, should MBA program admissions offices look for them in applicants? If so, how? Is it more than a matter of just age and experience? If they are skills, should the curriculum be designed to … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: MBA Related, Trends / Analysis

Learning and Change – Roger Martin

Aticle looks at Roger Martin, co-founder of Monitor Co. and new Dean at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and his attempts to change the way MBAs are taught, focusing on integrative learning.

Content: Article | Author: Ron Lieber | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Extreme Networking: MBAs Show the Way

And you think you know how to work a crowd? Incoming B-school students from Harvard to Stanford use Web-based communities to get to know each other, to make group deals for cell phones, and to launch business plans — before they attend their first class!

Content: Article | Author: Linda Tischler | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Guide to Case Analysis

This excellent guide from Otterbein College provides an overview of the case method. It begins with a discussion of the role that cases play in the teaching/learning process. This is followed by a series of guidelines for case analysis. After carefully reading this material, you should be prepared to tackle your first case analysis. Even if you have had previous experience with cases, this guide … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Otterbein College | Subjects: Case Related, MBA Related

Learning with Cases Workshop

The purpose of this workshop is to introduce students to learning with cases. The workshop covers background issues regarding business cases and the case method, the typical anatomy of a business case, and an accepted method for structuring a case analysis.

Content: Article | Author: Daniel A. Szpiro | Source: Copenhagen Business School | Subjects: Case Related, MBA Related

How to Get an MBA

Content: Book | Author: Morgen Witzel | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Streetwise 24 Hour MBA

Content: Book | Author: Alexander Hiam | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Who’s Hiring

An MBA is a healthy boost to any career, but if you have your heart set on working at a particular company, you want to make sure that it’ll be recruiting on campus when you graduate. Here’s a BusinessWeek Online tool that lets you pick a company and find out which schools it hires MBAs from.

Content: Online Resource | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

The Top Business Schools – Career Journal

Career Journal of the _Wall Street Journal_ presents the results of its two-year long survey of corporate recruiters’ ratings of MBA programs from around the world. According to their survey, three smaller B-schools, Dartmouth’s Tuck School, Carnegie Mellon University’s Graduate School of Industrial Administration, and Yale University’s School of Management, were rated the top three, displacing the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, and Harvard. In a … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT)

MLT is a non-profit organization committed to helping students of color across the U.S. plan their careers from the time they are freshmen and sophomores in college by exposing them to the benefits of earning an MBA.

Since its inception in 1994, MLT has accomplished its goals through a number of services, the most essential of which is the Mentor Program. Through this component, each student … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Management Leadership for Tomorrow | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources