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The chief proponent of “integrative thinking” argues that business schools need to teach fewer absolutes and more critical thinking skills.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Roger L. Martin | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: About the MBA Degree

Blair Sheppard, dean of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, discusses how the expectations of MBA students are changing—and why the traditional MBA education needs to change as well.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Blair Sheppard | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: About the MBA Degree

Business schools are realizing that students need to learn how to think critically and creatively every bit as much as they needed to learn finance or accounting.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Lane Wallace | Source: The New York Times | Subject: About the MBA Degree

Alternatives to the M.B.A.can be shorter, more focused and offer an increasingly attractive option to a two-year general business degree.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Diana Middleton | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: About the MBA Degree

Pub crawls and athletic competitions may seem like distractions, but they serve an important B-school purpose: turning MBA grads into active—and generous—alumni.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Lindsey Gerdes | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: About the MBA Degree

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful”, said the famous doctor Albert Schweitzer. Many people, though confuse financial success with happiness, business students amongst them. But the assumption that an MBA will make them richer and therefore happier is flawed.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Barbara Bierach | Source: MBA Channel | Subjects: About the MBA Degree, MBA Program Rankings

If you’re considering an starting your own business and wondering if getting an MBA would be worth the effort, here’s one man’s take on the issue.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Tim Berry | Source: Entrepreneur magazine | Subject: About the MBA Degree

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

Professors Garvin and Datar provided data about the challenges facing the business education marketplace and presented qualitative information on innovations in top MBA programs.

On the whole, MBA programs are in decline. Their value is being questioned, and they are seen as overly emphasizing analytics rather than skill development and experiences. Deans, executives, and recruiters identified four main areas where current MBA programs are falling short: … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: About the MBA Degree, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

To instill a sense of ethics and social responsibility, B-schools must ask students to take on challenges that will last long past graduation.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Jeffrey Gangemi | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: About the MBA Degree, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

The MBA industry is in turmoil. Many business schools are revisiting their offerings to see if they still have relevance in the 21st century. And HBS is using its centennial year to convene worldwide experts on business education and plot its directions for the next 100 years.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: About the MBA Degree, Business School News

When the Carnegie and Ford Foundations unveiled their scathing critiques in 1959 of what was then the modern MBA degree, they made a serious impression on their intended audience. The top business schools scrambled to make the suggested changes in an effort to earn back a little respect from both businesses and critics at large.

While there has not been another formal report since the 1950s, … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: C.J. Prince | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: About the MBA Degree, Business School News

More B-schools are setting up concentrations in investment management, arts administration, real estate, biosciences, and other fields.

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

The high-value decision maker of the future has to be conceived, prototyped, nurtured. In a word—designed.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Mihnea Moldoveanu | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: About the MBA Degree

One-year B-school programs, a mainstay in Europe, are getting a second look in the U.S.

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

Devotion to traditional subjects means leadership, social responsibility, ethics, and a global view get short shrift in the MBA curriculum.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Peter Navarro | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: About the MBA Degree, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Some critics charge that business schools are too academic and theoretical. But the research and mindset that they incubate have powerful real-world applications.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Thomas F. Cooley | Source: STERNbusiness (NYU) | Subject: About the MBA Degree

A leading management thinker argues that MBAs need more real business world experience in their education.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Charles Handy | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: About the MBA Degree

This BNET collection of articles claims to “show you five hard truths about the degree and how to decode the class catalog jargon to tell you what you’ll really be learning for your $60k. On the other side of the interview desk, CEOs and VPs give their candid opinions about when they would – and wouldn’t – hire an MBA.”

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BNET | Subject: About the MBA Degree

Does more work experience equal better MBA students? Rochester officials say their program for less experienced students shows it isn’t necessarily so.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: James Brickley, Mark Zupan | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: About the MBA Degree, Business School News, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources