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The best-selling case study of all time at Harvard Business School (HBS) is not about Coca-Cola or Microsoft, but the Cleveland-based arc welding manufacturer Lincoln Electric. First published in 1975, the case has sold roughly 300,000 copies. Almost every MBA candidate at Harvard reads the original or one of several updated versions, as do tens of thousands more business students across America.

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Content: Article | Author: Frank Koller | Source: The Huffington Post | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, MBA Related, Organizational Behavior | Company: Lincoln Electric Company

Groups like MBAs Without Borders give B-school graduates experience in the developing world, and just maybe a new career.

Content: Article | Author: Alison Damast | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Career, MBA Related

David Garvin, Harvard Business School professor, explains why business education is at a crossroads. He is the coauthor of Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: David Garvin | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: MBA Related

An occupation earns the right to be a profession only when some ideals, such as being an impartial counsel, doing no harm, or serving the greater good, are infused into the conduct of people in that occupation. In like vein, a school becomes a professional school only when it infuses those ideals into its graduates. A business school does that effectively when it forces its … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Joel M. Podolny | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: MBA Related

Calling all business students and students of business: Pocket MBA shrinks a complete MBA coursebook to iPhone size. The app originally sells for $29.99, but you can get the lite version for free from the iTunes App Store.

Based on the work of Jae K. Shim (co-author of “The Vest-Pocket MBA”), Pocket MBA covers topics ranging from Business Strategy to Economics to Information Technology.

In each of … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Subjects: Education, MBA Related, Products & Services

QuickMBA is an online knowledge resource for business administration. Our goal is to help you to quickly find the business knowledge you need, when you need it, wherever you may be. Topics are presented as frameworks and summaries in the various subjects of business administration, as taught in the world’s top MBA programs.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Internet Center for Management and Business Administration Inc. | Subjects: Education, MBA Related, Personal Development

OneStopMBA.com provides information about MBA course preparation. It also contains a lot of useful downloads and links, including course materials, exam practice tests and questions, jobs info, interview questions, etc.

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

Richard Ludlow launched Academic Earth with the goal of building a user-friendly platform for educational video that would let anyone be able to freely access instruction from the scholars and guest lecturers at the leading academic universities. The site offers 60 full courses and 2,395 total lectures (almost 1300 hours of video) from Yale, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Princeton that can be browsed … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Subjects: Education, Free Stuff / Tools, MBA Related, Personal Development

An Environmental Defense Fund program gives MBA students a crash course in energy efficiency. Then the MBAs crunch the numbers to show the payoff to a company’s bottom line.

Content: Article | Author: Anne VanderMey | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: MBA Related, Social Responsibility (ESG)

The MBA-Channel links the target groups in the immediate field of the Master of Business Administration: Schools, companies and above all prospective students. Besides journalistic expertise, the website bundles different features with high utility: Extensive and in-depth search functions for business schools, MBA programs and events. The business schools have the ability to directly address students and prospective students: All information is directly conveyed to … [ Read more ]

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

MBA students need more than professed values. They need to know that the world is morally complex and morally dangerous. They need to know that bad deeds can come from good values. They need to know that valuing integrity enough to keep one’s hands off other people’s money is only the beginning, not the end of business ethics.

There are many ethical questions in business life … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: James Hoopes | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subjects: Ethics, MBA Related

Going through school to get an MBA can take a few years away from your life and work. These days you don’t always have time to take a few years and be a student. You’ve got bills to pay! This list of 100 business blogs can bring you up to speed in the briefcase world so you can take a detour around the MBA education … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: The Fixer-Upper Blog | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous

Shouldn’t business and business schools be looking at their practices and precepts with the same critical eye as the economics profession? Three questions, culled from Alan Webber’s book, Rules of Thumb, can help propel the thinking on these issues in the right direction.

Content: Article | Author: Alan M. Webber | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subject: MBA Related

In a world that requires business leaders to address the concerns of all their stakeholders, we must reshape management education to be both practical and aspirational.

Content: Article | Author: Mary C. Gentile | Source: strategy+business | Subject: MBA Related

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MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources (MSTIR) is a collection of teaching materials, including case studies, simulations, deep dives, and industry, business and country overviews that MIT Sloan provides as a free teaching resource open and available to the world. Similar to the course syllabi and materials found on MIT’s OpenCourseWare site, these materials carry a creative commons license allowing them to be downloaded, copied and … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Subjects: Education, MBA Related

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This site provides information on MBA and Masters study, offers an MBA Community as well as GMAT test preparation courses and dissertation coaching services.

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

New books and revisited history illuminate the irrelevance of today’s MBA — and ways to make it compelling again.

Content: Article | Author: Andrea Gabor | Source: strategy+business | Subject: MBA Related