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B-schools are remaking their curriculums with projects that compel students to take classroom concepts into the real world.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Jeffrey Gangemi | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Business School News

Rensselaer’s Lally School is overhauling the B-school syllabus. Rivals are watching.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Geoff Gloeckler | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Business School News

Will state-of-the art technology and flashy architecture attract students to these business schools? Several insiders discuss whether technological and aesthetic improvements are a luxury or a neccessity.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Lambeth Hochwald | Source: MBA Jungle | Subjects: Business School News, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Various short articles on B-School happenings:

Back to the Future at Duke
Sheryle Dirks takes the helm again at Fuqua’s careers office.

Chicago Shares Campus Recruiting with Part-Timers

Status Woes: 10 South African B-Schools Lose Accreditation

Georgia State Taps Huss as B-School Dean

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Mica Schneider | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Business School News

Bainbridge Graduate Institute recently granted MBAs in Sustainable Business to its first-ever graduating class.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: GreenBiz.com | Subject: Business School News

B-schools are now fostering ventures with a social mission

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Laura D’Andrea Tyson | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Business School News, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

The Business Roundtable has announced the creation of a first-of-its-kind business ethics center designed to renew and enhance the link between ethical behavior and business practices.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: GreenBiz.com | Subjects: Business School News, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Gifford Pinchot says business schools have fostered an obsession with maximizing shareholder value at the expense of employees, community, and the planet. That’s why he started the Bainbridge Island Graduate Institute ( BGI ) near Seattle, where students will study environmental sustainability and social responsibility in the context of entrepreneurship and innovation.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Ellie Winninghoff | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Business School News

Karin Ash, career-management director at the Johnson B-school, explains why focused, well-prepared grads do best at the job search.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Business School News

Students they’re sure they can place

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Brian Hindo | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Business School News

While this year’s crop is far more realistic about job security, they’re also convinced that their business degree is extremely valuable.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Mica Schneider | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Business School News

Is INSEAD the ultimate global b-school?

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: Des Dearlove, Stuart Crainer | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Business School News, Choosing a Program

Article looks at a proposed new certification test for MBAs.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Gene Koprowski | Source: CollegeJournal.com | Subjects: Business School News, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Article looks at the shortage of business Ph.D.s and the problem of filling vacant professorial positions.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Julie Bennett | Source: CollegeJournal.com | Subjects: Business School News, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Robert Sullivan, dean of the University of California at San Diego’s brand new program, talks about the lure — and the challenge.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Business School News

Hyderabad’s Indian School of Business has major-league backers and world-class faculty. Now it wants to become an Asian jewel

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subjects: Business School News, International MBA Issues

The Bainbridge Island Graduate Institute (BGI) is offering a new MBA program “for people who want their business career to reflect their commitment to sustainability and social justice.”

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: Business School News

Virtual networking truly clicks at Indiana University, where students of the online MBA program collaborate and communicate across time zones and oceans, using breakneck technology and scheduling savvy. Hmmm … sounds a lot like global business today.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subjects: Business School News, Online & Distance MBA

In 2000, The Entrepreneurial Manager was introduced into the required first-year MBA curriculum. The course-and its presence in the first year-marked an important milestone in the evolution of teaching entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School.

New Business recently gathered Howard H. Stevenson, the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Paul W. Marshall, the MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management Practice and course head for The Entrepreneurial Manager, … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: Business School News

This article takes a look at the development of an elective field studies project on Natural Capitalism at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management. The result: a Legacy Fund that the school is considering as a unique part of a leadership track on sustainable business.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subjects: Business School News, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources