Communication Skills Are Critical to M.B.A.s
It is the rare business school that provides master of business administration graduates with a thorough grounding in corporate communications. While some b-schools offer classes in “management communication,” the emphasis typically is on public speaking and written reports, not on managing a company’s reputation.
Content: Article | Author: Ron Alsop | Source: CollegeJournal.com | Subject: MBA Related
Corporate Social Responsibility: Reputation Effects on MBA Job Choice
This survey of more than 800 MBAs from 11 leading North American and European schools found a substantial number were willing to forgo some financial benefits to work for an organization with a better reputation for environmental and social responsibility and ethics. The research was by David B. Montgomery of Stanford and Catherine A. Ramus of UC Santa Barbara. In the study, reputation for ethics … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Catherine A. Ramus, David B. Montgomery | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: MBA Related, Social Responsibility (ESG)
ABC for MBAs – Management Humor, Business Humor, MBA Humor
A collection of management, business and MBA humor.
Content: Online Resource | Source: ABC for MBAs | Subjects: Amusement / Leisure, MBA Related
P Y Gerbeau
I hate management books but I’m a big fan of business books. I love to read about business, strategy and very clever business people. I love to read about marketing, corporate finance, the new accounting tools that are coming in. But no management book can tell you how to be a CEO. The MBA is a commodity – it’s a guidebook but it’s theory. There … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Emerald Now | Subjects: Management, MBA Related
Networking Is Added To B-School Curriculum
Networking is now considered a necessity for new M.B.A.s, and graduate business schools nationwide are no longer leaving the development of this skill to chance. Many schools are building networking instruction into their curriculums or creating extra-curricular programs designed to spur the activity. In other cases, students themselves are creating vehicles designed to boost networking.
Content: Article | Author: Perri Capell | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subjects: Career, MBA Related
Carl Pascarella
When I was at Stanford a professor of organizational behavior told a bunch of us, “You folks kill me. You’ve spent all your time on economics, on statistics, on policy, on accounting. Those of you that are going to end up running businesses, you’re going to hire economists and CFOs and IT people and statisticians. But what it’s all about is motivating people; it’s getting … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: STERNbusiness (NYU) | Subjects: MBA Related, Organizational Behavior
B-Schools Gain a Lavender Tinge
With gay and lesbian students increasingly assertive, B-schools are working to be more inclusive and boost opportunities for them
Content: Article | Author: Mica Schneider | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
League of MBA Bloggers
A guide to the weblogs that are written by current and prospective MBA students.
Content: Online Resource | Source: Blogspot | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Study Finds MBA Graduates Seek Ethical Employers
Last week a new study furnished yet another strong argument for the “doing good is good business” crowd: corporate social responsibility may just help your human resources department snag up-and-coming MBAs without sending first-year salaries through the roof. Researchers found that a surprising number of recent business-school grads were willing to earn less to work for more socially conscious companies.
Content: Article | Authors: Catherine A. Ramus, David B. Montgomery | Source: GreenBiz.com | Subjects: MBA Related, Social Responsibility (ESG)
Training a New Generation of Business Leaders
Three MBA programs emerge at the forefront of sustainable business education.
Content: Article | Source: GreenBiz.com | Subjects: MBA Related, Social Responsibility (ESG)
Back to B-School
CEOs are turning to custom-designed programs at top schools to educate the senior ranks.
Content: Article | Author: Jodi Schneider | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Human Resources, MBA Related
Enrollment Proportions for MBA Program Types Differ in U.S. and Canada
Creating a Fundable Business Plan
The renowned MOOT CORP® Competition opens its archives of award-winning business plans and presentations to create a mini-course for budding entrepreneurs to use in writing their business plans and in finding the resources to launch their businesses. The Creating a Fundable Business Plan website is part of the UTOPIA project, an ambitious new initiative designed to open The University of Texas at Austin’s doors of … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Sources: MOOT CORP, University of Texas at Austin | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, MBA Related
Dip, Before Diving, into That New Job
Your foot is in the door. Here’s how to manuever around the first days at your new job — without falling on your face
Content: Article | Author: Jordan Burke | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Career, MBA Related
Henry Mintzberg
The typical business school today is concerned with business functions, not management. Certainly managers have to understand business functions-marketing, accounting, sales, and so on-but the practice of business is not the same as the practice of management. Mixing all these functions together in a person is not going to produce a manager.
Now, while business schools have been successful in analyzing things, in separating all these … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Management, MBA Related
Henry Mintzberg
A profession has a codified body of knowledge, and to practice a profession you need to be trained and certified…But we don’t have much codified knowledge in management, and we certainly have no accreditation that ensures people are good managers; in fact, the most common accreditation-the MBA-is exactly the opposite. We have great managers who have never spent a day in a management program. We … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Management, MBA Related
But Can You Teach It?
No form of education is more commercialised than management education. But are business schools teaching the right things?
Content: Article | Sources: CFO Publishing, The Economist | Subject: MBA Related
The MBA Menace
Management theorist and critic Henry Mintzberg has a few choice words for all you newly minted MBAs: The way you were taught management is all wrong.
Content: Article | Author: Henry Mintzberg | Source: Fast Company | Subject: MBA Related | Industry: Education / Training
Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development
Two decades ago, Mintzberg, a professor at McGill University who was then teaching MBAs at MIT, discovered a profound “disconnect between the practice of management… and what went on in classrooms.” Since that time, he has dedicated himself to the problems of management and management education, both of which he believes are “deeply troubled,” and the latter of which has become the wrong that he, … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Henry Mintzberg | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
eBusGrad.com
Jim Harrison has created a free online business tutoring service that is conducted entirely through email. Each one-on-one session is intended to enhance the student’s understanding in areas of business. Use this site for help on starting your paper or you can submit your paper via email for review.
Editor’s Note: I really don’t know what to make of this service and as I have … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Author: Jim Harrison | Subjects: Education, MBA Related | Industry: Education / Training