Getting on the Fast Track to an Executive M.B.A.
Some business schools are switching to shorter, more flexible programs to appeal to busy managers and sponsoring companies that want to minimize time away from the office.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Ron Alsop | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subjects: Business School News, Executive Programs
Bschools Apply Lesson From Branding 101
Many schools boast talented marketing professors and send their graduates off to brand powerhouses like Procter & Gamble. Yet most schools have failed to develop a resonant brand image of their own. While schools may well have distinctive cultures and academic strengths, they usually play up their media rankings and use the same buzzwords, such as global and entrepreneurial. Some schools are trying to change … [ Read more ]
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Ron Alsop | Source: CollegeJournal.com | Subject: Business School News
New Deans, New Directions
Business school deans once cloistered themselves in ivy-covered towers within serene university settings, isolated from real world pressures. But no longer. Today, the top job at the world’s top schools presents challenges akin to those faced by corporate CEOs. Competition among schools has intensified, international curriculum and campuses are now de rigeur, and faculty recruitment and retention is more challenging. The demands of these new … [ Read more ]
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Rebecca Fannin | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Business School News
Survey Shows MBA Students Believe Business Should Be Agent of Social Change
The overwhelming majority of today’s MBA students believe that businesses should work toward the betterment of society, that managers should take into account social and environmental impacts when making business decisions, and that corporate social responsibility should be integrated into core curricula in MBA programs, according to a new survey.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Sources: GreenBiz.com, Net Impact | Subjects: Business School News, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Survey: M.B.A.s Are The Biggest Cheaters
Many bschool students say they plagiarize copy classmates’ work and bring prohibited materials into exams, a survey shows.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Thomas Kostigen | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subjects: Business School News, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
One Size Fits All No Longer at Stanford
The business school plans to retool its M.B.A. curriculum to add more customization for the school’s increasingly diverse students.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Ron Alsop | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Business School News
Was Earning That Harvard M.B.A. Worth It?
About a year before Adam Richman was to graduate from the Harvard Business School in 1996, he took on an extracurricular project. Mr. Richman wondered: What was the real-world value of a master’s in business administration? Mr. Richman decided to track a group of his classmates and visit them every five years until 2026. He also decided to film them along the way. His work … [ Read more ]
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Abby Ellin | Source: The New York Times | Subjects: About the MBA Degree, Business School News
Breaking Down Silos at Yale
Dean Joel Podolny talks about how the B-school is putting old paradigms out to pasture with its new curriculum.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Kerry Miller | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Business School News
Yale’s New M.B.A. Curriculum Integrates Academic Disciplines
The course overhaul exemplifies a trend toward breaking out of functional ‘silos’ like finance, accounting and marketing.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Ron Alsop | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Business School News
Making Those Connections Work
How a Dutch B-school is helping its diverse student body develop lasting networks.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Business School News
A Problem-Based MBA Curriculum: The Ohio University Experience
Ohio University’s MBA program is designed according to the principals of problem-based learning. The curriculum has no courses. Rather, it is organized around problems like those the students will encounter after graduation. Pre- and post-program assessments are used to measure changes in knowledge and skills. Students are required to complete a program assignment in a foreign country. The paper describes the process by which Ohio … [ Read more ]
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: David P. Kirch, Gerald F. Caralho | Source: mid-american Journal of Business | Subjects: About the MBA Degree, Business School News
Reengineering the MBA for Small and Mid-Size Firms: A Business-Driven Approach
Most universities have MBA programs designed to train functionally specialized managers for large Fortune 1000 type firms. The graduate management education needs of small and mid-size firms have been largely ignored. Many innovative MBA programs have themes that emphasize entrepreneurship, management of technology, or international business, but none have integrated all three themes in a redesigned MBA program that meets the needs of small and … [ Read more ]
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: Don R. Beeman, Thomas W. Sharkey, William J. Doll | Source: mid-american Journal of Business | Subjects: About the MBA Degree, Business School News
More B-Schools Add Sales Courses
A company’s sales force is its lifeblood. But you’d never know it by looking at the typical M.B.A. curriculum. Because they’re lighter on theory and research than other academic subjects, sales courses are surprisingly scarce in M.B.A. programs. But the sales function seems to be slowly gaining more respect as a few major schools create M.B.A.-level sales courses.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Ron Alsop | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Business School News
More M.B.A. Programs Embrace Game Theory
Interest in the study of incentives grows after a Nobel Prize was awarded to researchers in the field.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Rhea Wessel | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Business School News
Millenial M.B.A.s Prompt a Shift In Approach, Services at Bschools
The kids who grew up with playdates and the Internet begin entering business school.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Ron Alsop | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Business School News
Summer-Internship Offers Are Too Premature for Some M.B.A.s
While business schools typically roll out the red carpet for recruiters some are starting to resist the early marketing push.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Ron Alsop | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Business School News
B-Schools Promote Better Learning Through Technology
High-tech accoutrements such as podcasts, clickers, and digital cameras are changing the traditional MBA experience.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Meredith Bodgas | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Business School News
Wharton and Harvard Are Missing
The two B-schools declined to provide data for The Economist’s rankings — so they were dropped. Will other schools follow?
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Francesca Di Meglio | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Business School News, MBA Program Rankings
B-School Tries Online Game, Scholarship to Spur Interest
The winner of a business-simulation game will collect a free pass to an M.B.A. program.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Ron Alsop | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Business School News
Campus Confidential: Four top-tier B-schools don’t disclose grades. Now that policy is under attack
Students at some top-ranked B-schools have a secret. It’s something they can’t share even if it means losing a job offer. It’s one some have worked hard for and should be proud of, but instead they keep it to themselves. The secret is their grades.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Business School News