120 Posts Found

Top B-schools typically repay students’ investments in spades, but exclusive new data suggest women don’t share equally in the bounty.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Kurt Steinberg | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Business School News, MBA Program Rankings, Women & Minority MBA Issues

Academics don’t necessarily agree on what innovation is, but that hasn’t stopped them from trying to teach it.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Melissa Korn | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Business School News

For decades, companies have relied on business-school students to be unpaid consultants, assessing takeover or expansion opportunities. It is low risk and high reward for firms, with almost no financial outlay and a number of fresh new ideas from eager up-and-comers. But now some companies are going a step farther, placing entire brands in the hands of students, with the hope of developing long-lasting partnerships … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Melissa Korn | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Business School News

With $3,000 of seed capital from Harvard Business School, around 150 MBA teams were tasked with developing their very own micro-businesses in short order. Here’s what they came up with.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Business School News

At some schools, MBA orientation is becoming less about building trust and more about getting the incoming class up to speed on business fundamentals.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Kiah Lau Haslett | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Business School News

Faced with an increasing stream of data from the Web and other electronic sources, many companies are seeking managers who can make sense of the numbers through the growing practice of data analytics, also known as business intelligence. Finding qualified candidates has proven difficult, but business schools hope to fill the talent gap.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: Melissa Korn, Shara Tibken | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Business School News

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Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Della Bradshaw | Source: FT.com | Subject: Business School News

Business schools have traditionally excelled at teaching “hard skills” like finance and accounting, now more programs are incorporating courses on “soft skills,” like accepting feedback with grace and speaking to subordinates.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: Joe Light, Melissa Korn | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Business School News

European MBA programs are using blogs, wikis, social networking, and other Web 2.0 tools to link students and explore new business strategies.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Erica Rex | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Business School News

At the Smeal College of Business, dozens of MBA applicants who plagiarized admissions essays on “principled leadership” were shown the door. They won’t be the last.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Alison Damast | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Business School News, Getting In

The Graduate Management Admission Test — the dominant test for M.B.A. admissions, but one that is facing competition — will soon have a new section, designed to test the ability of would-be business students to analyze multiple kinds of information.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Scott Jaschik | Source: USA Today | Subjects: Business School News, GMAT

Haas, Manchester, and Iowa are among the B-schools striving to build Asia ties through EMBA and alternative degree programs.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Bruce Einhorn | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Business School News

Accelerated MBA programs of a year or less are gaining in popularity, but critics say they’re not right for everyone and may leave some students shortchanged.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Alison Damast | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: About the MBA Degree, Business School News

MBA ethics classes tend to focus on training students to recognize what’s right and wrong. But Mary Gentile, a Babson College scholar with a specialty in ethics and diversity curricula, says the standard approach fails to address the real problem. In most real-life business situations, Gentile says, you already know what’s right. The hard part is figuring out how to act on that knowledge without … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Amanda Becker | Source: BNET | Subjects: Business School News, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Schools publish average salary figures that suggest most grads will reap rich rewards, but for many the “average” is a distant dream.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Anne VanderMey | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Business School News, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Using recently developed evaluation systems, some colleges are aiming to quantify so-called noncognitive traits such as leadership, resilience and creativity.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Robert Tomsho | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subjects: Business School News, Getting In

With Harvard, Wharton, and other top schools planning to accept the GRE for admissions, cracks are beginning to show in the GMAT monopoly.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Alison Damast | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Business School News

Business Icon Lends His Name to New Online University Program; ‘It’s a Real Education,’ He Says.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subjects: Business School News, Online & Distance MBA

When demand outstrips supply, top MBA programs resort to a very business-like solution. Just be sure to have a strategy before placing that bid.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Geoff Gloeckler | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Business School News, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

A Stanford prof on preparing students for the cutthroat realities of sales operations.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: Jeremy Dann, Jim Lattin | Source: BNET | Subject: Business School News