MBA course surge outside the US
MBA Enrollment by Ethnicity (US Schools)
NOBS, the end of the MBA
Seth Godin reprints an article he originally wrote for Fast Company about a different kind of MBA…
Content: Article | Author: Seth Godin | Subjects: Amusement / Leisure, MBA Related
Brad Feld
If you want a two year break from life, go to business school. If you want to meet a bunch of new, generally smart, and always interesting people, go to business school. If you are a techie but like the business side of things, want to get an intellectual (and functional grounding) in business stuff, want a two year break from life, and want to … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Feld Thoughts | Subjects: Education, MBA Related
Recruiters Are Using Games To Assess M.B.A. Candidates
Getting a good job often requires a bit of gamesmanship. But for some M.B.A. students, landing a new position is all about playing games.
Content: Article | Author: Ron Alsop | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subjects: Career, MBA Related
Pierre Yves (P Y) Gerbeau
I could spend days talking about management style. But every business is different – there is not a recipe or a Drucker book in which you can learn about management. Doing an MBA you will learn about strategy, finance, marketing…but you will never learn about management. You will only learn about management by doing it.
Content: Quotation | Source: Emerald Now | Subjects: Management, MBA Related
Putting the Brakes On M.B.A. Arrogance
Recruiters are urging students to curb their egos in job interviews.
Content: Article | Author: Ron Alsop | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subjects: Career, MBA Related
Mary Crossan, Fernando Olivera
Management education and management practice have been anchored in functions, or what academics refer to as disciplines. The last two decades have seen phenomenal growth in the body of knowledge and associated expertise in the field of management. Drawing on disciplines such as economics, psychology and sociology, business schools developed their own acumen in areas such as finance and marketing. Faculty became experts in these … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Management, MBA Related
Can a “Personal MBA” Match the Real McCoy?
Proponents of self-learning say that B-schools are a waste of time and money. Traditional MBAs say there’s no substitute for the Halls of Ivy.
Content: Article | Author: Jeffrey Gangemi | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Charles Handy
Business schools teach you the language of business, and that’s quite useful. It’s like if you want to go to work in France you have to learn French. It doesn’t mean you’re going to be very good in France, but it’s good to learn the language. I think that what business schools do is to teach you the language of business and some managerial skills, … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Education, MBA Related | Industry: Education / Training
Preparing an Effective Case Analysis
This site presents a moderately structured framework. The authors divide the discussion into four sections. First, they describe the importance of understanding the skills active learners can acquire through effective use of the case analysis method. In the second section, they provide you with a process-oriented framework. This framework can be of value in your efforts to analyze cases and then present the results of … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Source: South-Western | Subjects: Case Related, MBA Related
Matthew Stewart
The best business schools will tell you that management education is mainly about building skills–one of the most important of which is the ability to think (or what the M.B.A.s call “problem solving”). But do they manage to teach such skills?
What they don’t seem to teach you in business school is that “the five forces” and “the seven Cs” and every other generic framework … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subject: MBA Related
George Shultz
I’ve always conceived a business school education as being a process of helping you learn how to learn from experience. It should put you in a position where, when you leave and start having experiences in the workplace, you will make the most of those experiences as you continue to learn.
Content: Quotation | Source: Stanford University | Subject: MBA Related
New Cognitive Skills for a New Millenium
Current approaches to business education are based on an identifiable model of knowledge creation,representation and dissemination – a model that cannot bridge what political scientist T.Homer Dixon calls ‘the ingenuity gap’ – the gap between the problem-solving means of the past and the problems of the immediate future. A new model is needed – one that stresses optimization over correctness, integration over specialization and adaptive … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Mihnea Moldoveanu | Source: Rotman Magazine | Subject: MBA Related
Percent of MBA Enrollment by Ethnicity – US
Why negotiation is the most popular business school course
Just as negotiating has become an ongoing process, so too has learning new negotiating techniques. “Improving your negotiation skills,” write the co-authors of this article, “is a long journey that involves constant reflection, awareness, and openness to feedback.” In the article, a valuable and extremely useful primer for negotiators, they describe and outline the preparation, value-claiming and value-creating strategies that are the foundation of any … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Leigh Thompson | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: MBA Related, Negotiation
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Think about what business schools do:They train people to talk about ideas and concepts and to solve problems. But the one thing they typically don’t do is train students how to actually do anything – not just analyze problems but implement their solutions in the messy world of real people.
Ask yourself this question:Would you undergo heart surgery if the surgeon had been trained in … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Rotman Magazine | Subject: MBA Related
Henry Mintzberg
MBA programmes tend to emphasise analysis and technique – they teach you to understand market research, to evaluate financial data and so on. All those things are fine and important but if you take that to be management, you’re in trouble. Conventional MBA programmes are mostly for young people with little or no experience. Management isn’t a science or a profession that can be taught … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Management, MBA Related
M.B.A. Recruiters’ No. 1 Pet Peeve: Poor Writing and Speaking Skills
Find out what employers want in business-school grads and how some interviewers evaluate candidates.
Content: Article | Author: Ron Alsop | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subjects: Career, MBA Related
Business School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Business School Experience: By Students, for Students
For college students thinking about applying to business school or for those in the workforce considering an additional degree, the authors give the lowdown on taking the GMAT, choosing a school, funding your education, selecting a major, preparing for exams and seeking full-time employment upon graduation. Miller (Law School Confidential) and Loucks, a recent graduate of Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, interviewed current … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Katherine F. Koegler, Katherine Loucks, Robert H. Miller, Robert Miller | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources