Five Ways to Make Business Schools into Useful Institutions
Author of the best-seller Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA, offers five suggestions to the deans of America’s business schools.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
How Earning an MBA Eases a Career Change
Most professionals enroll in B-school to advance their careers, but others sign up for a more radical reason: to shift direction entirely…
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Businessweek Guide to the Best Business Schools (Business Week Guide to the Best Business Schools, 6th Ed)
Content: Book | Authors: Cynthia Green, Jennifer Reingold | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Getting into Graduate Business School Today
Content: Book | Authors: David P. Waldherr, Thomas E. Martinson, Thomas H. Martinson | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
B-School Lingo
review.com site gives a list of expressions you will hear in a typical MBA program
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: Princeton Review | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
review.com Transition Featured Articles
series of articles from Princeton Review including: What Will I Learn at B-School?, Before You Get to B-School, Avoid Procrastination, Take Better Notes, Stress Mgmt 101, 11-Step Guide to Transferring, and B-School Basics.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Kansas City Star MBA ’98 Special Report
offers a variety of articles, some of which are heavily focused on the Kansas area.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
MBA Links & Resources Page
A straightforward listing of ~200 MBA programs broken out by country (not alphabetical though). Also has a short list of distance and online MBA programs as well as other MBA resources.
Content: Online Resource | Author: Gil Steiner | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
The MBA Exchange
Bills itself as the leading consultants for applicants to the world’s best MBA programs. Serves as an applicant’s advisor, advocate and ally, providing an objective, actionable assessment of their strengths and weaknesses.
Content: Online Resource | Source: The MBA Exchange | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
MBA Journals
Business Week asked 12 B-school students — six new ones for the 1999-2000 school year, added to the six who participated last year — to write accounts of their B-school experiences.
Content: Article | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Best B-Schools
Business Week’s all-too-famous rankings are found here, along with other useful features including forums, news, MBA journals, program database, profiles, comparison tools, facts & figures, admissions Q&A, career issues, and more.
Content: Online Resource | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Hi-Tech MBA Guide.doc
BusinessMajors (About.com)
This site, part of the growing About.com empire, offers a variety of resources for those interested in B-School – most useful for prospective and current students.
Content: Online Resource | Source: About.com | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Techno-MBA Top Dogs
Computerworld’s third annual Top Techno-MBA Survey rankings of the best high-tech MBA programs
Content: Online Resource | Source: Computerworld | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Too Cool For School?
After years of loathing M.B.A. programs, here’s why today’s savvy entrepreneurs are now seeking these degrees.
Content: Article | Author: Jay Finegan | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Rate It All – The Opinion Network
An interesting idea, this site lets people rate items and post comments (just like MBAdepot but on a much wider variety of topics); this particular link is to MBA Programs. Obviously, this is not scientific, but it is still useful for prospective students.
Content: Online Resource | Source: RateItAll | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Which MBA? A Critical Guide to the World
Content: Book | Author: George Bickerstaffe | Source: The Economist | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Bears’ Guide to the Best MBAs by Distance Learning
Content: Book | Authors: John Bear, Ph.D., Mariah Bear | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
MBA Front Lines
Professors, faculty members, and second-year students at ten of America’s most recognized business schools contribute survival advice and lessons.
Content: Article | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
review.com
Princeton Review’s website for B-Schools; some useful features incl. wide-ranging (but hard to manage) discussion forums and unique approch to ranking the schools by criteria; also incl. a school database
Content: Online Resource | Source: Princeton Review | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
