120 Articles found for subject: MBA Related

In an era marked by climate crisis, widening inequality, and deepening distrust in institutions, Andrew J. Hoffman is urging business schools to confront a sobering reality: shareholder capitalism is failing society.

Content: Article | Authors: Andrew J. Hoffman, Marc Ethier | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: MBA Related, Social Responsibility (ESG)

The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.

Content: Article | Author: Daniel Engber | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subject: MBA Related

Section 4, a growing online platform for business education founded by Scott Galloway and working with top business professors and practitioners, distills MBA-quality courses into two- to three-week sprints in topics such as Product Positioning, Brand Strategy, Data & Analytics, Customer-Centered Innovation and more. Sprints are designed to be short, intense, and instantly applicable. They deliver the content at a fraction of the cost of … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Kristy Bleizeffer | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: Human Resources, Learning, MBA Related, Personal Development, Training & Development

The MBA has been the quintessential managerial education program and has supplied more ready and trained managers to U.S. corporations than any other graduate program. While MBA curricula are evolving to meet the changing needs of corporations, the authors assert that the pace of change must accelerate to keep the MBA degree future-proof. Otherwise, the danger is what Scott Cook, founder of Intuit, described: “When … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Anup Srivastava, Vijay Govindarajan | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Management, MBA Related

The case method pioneered by Harvard Business School has weathered a hundred years of controversy and criticism. However, is the approach the best way to teach people to lead in a world that demands more agility and adaptability?

Content: Article | Author: James L. Heskett | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: MBA Related

Is the business case study method outmoded? James Heskett’s readers are divided on whether the case is ripe for replacement.

Content: Article | Author: James L. Heskett | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Case Related, MBA Related

One of the biggest challenges facing management scientists has been the struggle to produce knowledge that is both academically rigorous and applicable to practicing managers. There are two problems that contribute to this challenge.

The first is what we called the “Lost in Translation” problem, which refers to the fact that almost no managers turn to academic journals for advice on how to improve their skills … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Debra L. Shapiro | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: MBA Related

The overarching goal of most business schools is to train future leaders to lead. But how well schools meet this goal, and to what extent their teaching influences their students’ leadership, is an open question. Does business school education really shape students’ minds and behaviors many years later, when they’ve reached decision-making positions at major corporations and financial institutions?

We explore this question by looking at … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Jiwook Jung | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: MBA Related

Professor emeritus Bruce Scott was a pioneer at the Harvard Business School, where he insisted that management training had to include the big picture, and helped craft the school’s now-mandatory MBA course, Business and Government in the International Economy (known colloquially as BGIE or “Biggie”) back in the 1970s.
 
Harvard Business School is the subject of journalist Duff McDonald’s new book, The Golden Passport, which examines … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Bruce Scott | Source: PBS | Subjects: Capitalism, Economics, MBA Related, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Your opportunity to distinguish yourself starts with being more willing than other MBA students to learn as you go, and with being more attuned to the high stakes of every decision you make.

Everyone else will be unconsciously following the dictates of some dead economist. In the country of the MBAs, you’ll have to strive to cultivate your judgment and figure out which ideas are worth … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Women with MBAs face a gender-based pay divide that starts as soon as they graduate, and plagues them throughout their careers.

Content: Article | Authors: Jonathan Rodkin, Natalie Kitroeff | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: MBA Related, Women in Business

Business education must enable students to reconcile enterprises with the changing realities of the global marketplace.

Content: Article | Author: Jonathan Story | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: MBA Related

Senior executives seem to neither understand project management nor regard it as an important means of business strategy execution. Only a few top business school’s Masters of Business Administration (MBAs) teach project management as part of their core course curriculum. I have spent the last 10 years trying to understand why.

Content: Article | Author: Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez | Subjects: MBA Related, Project Management

Most business schools have spent the past decade making their programs global in scope, which tends to mean sending students to foreign lands for immersion programs. The model they’re using, however, creates leaders that are dangerously out of touch with the context in which they’re running businesses.

Content: Article | Author: Bhaskar Chakravorti | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: International, MBA Related

While reading and preparing cases is a significant part of any business school experience, there isn’t always a concrete result to your work. You could easily invest hours preparing a case and have nothing to say about it during the class discussion. It’s because of this ambiguous return on investment that many people choose not to read the scheduled case before a class … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Matthew Kuo | Source: MBA Excel | Subjects: Case Related, MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

After going through two years of business school, it’s still questionable how much of my coursework and class notes will apply to my real world job. But one thing I do know is that I can use my experiences to help those who are in the exact same position I was two years ago. First and foremost this post is a documentation exercise; … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Matthew Kuo | Source: MBA Excel | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

The Graduate Management Admission Council, which markets the GMAT business school entrance exam, today launched a new online assessment tool designed to improve leadership and other “soft” skills. It comes with access to advice from executive coaches and an online library of content that allows users to develop skills at their own pace. It costs $99 for three years.

Content: Article | Author: Francesca Di Meglio | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Leadership, MBA Related, Personal Development

Dozens of MBAs seeking short-term international work assignments have found jobs through MBAs Without Borders, which places B-school graduates in the developing world to work on projects that range from public health to oil and gas extraction.

Content: Article | Author: Erin Zlomek | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Career, MBA Related

Daniel Mullaney’s MBA Project Search offers B-school grads a glimpse into the freelance and consulting worlds outside the confines of their school’s career services office.

Content: Article | Author: Lauren Everitt | Sources: FORTUNE, Poets & Quants | Subjects: Career, MBA Related

When Project Runway winner Chloe Dao’s national spotlight faded, she needed help, but couldn’t afford a consultant.

Content: Article | Author: Issie Lapowsky | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Consulting / Analytical Tools, Entrepreneurship, MBA Related