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
Behind the Rankings
Despite a slump in student satisfaction, executive programs generally remain a good investment, say BW’s Louis Lavelle and Geoff Gloeckler
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Executive Programs, MBA Program Rankings
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
Michael Levine
The consumer mind has a logical and emotional part to it, and if you don’t speak to both, you will lose them, especially when they’re hungry, tired, angry, or lonely.
We’re living in an age of anxiety. People have less leisure time. When they’re not hungry, tired, angry, or lonely, the emotional side will win the debate with the logical part of the brain 80% of … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Customer Related, Marketing / Sales
Michael Levine
What I’ve learned about business owners and human beings is that they respect wisdom but obey pain.
Content: Quotation | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Personality / Behavior, Wisdom
BusinessWeek MBA Blogs
Want to discuss what the B-school application process is really like? Or share ways to boost your GMAT scores? Or even wax philosophical on management theory? Now, you can by signing up to keep a blog at BusinessWeek Online (free registration required). As a BW Online blogger, you’ll be able to post photos, rate other bloggers, and more.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
It’s Getting Easier Being Green
Interest in integrating business with the needs of the environment is prompting a harder look at achieving a sustainable economy.
Content: Article | Author: Francesca Di Meglio | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: MBA Related, Social Responsibility (ESG)
Counterfeiting Accounts for 5% to 7% of Global Merchandise Trade
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
Do Online MBAs Make the Grade?
Their popularity is soaring, but some are diploma mills, making recruiters wary of virtual degrees. Here are tips for picking a good program.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Jeffrey Gangemi | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Online & Distance MBA
Pushing MBAs Beyond the Books
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
A Rank Offense to B-Schools?
Three professors say efforts to score higher ratings on magazine lists — like BusinessWeek’s — promote educational mediocrity and short-change students.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Louis Lavelle | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: MBA Program Rankings, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Testing Times for B-School Hopefuls
Applications are dropping, but the books and prep courses geared to the GMAT keep on coming.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Jeffrey Gangemi | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
Bringing Shakespeare to B-School
Two professors sound off on what’s missing from most MBA programs — from real-world relevance to the Bard’s wisdom.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: James O’Toole, Warren Bennis | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
This Is Not Your Father’s MBA
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
The Student Visa “Crapshoot”
Getting a U.S. visa is an iffy proposition, says immigration lawyer David Ware. Still, there are ways international students can lift their chances
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: David Ware | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: International MBA Issues
Taking the Trouble to Research Your Market
As a MOOT CORP judge, Rob Adams sees too many business plans written with the ink of wishful thinking. A clipboard and some astute questions are always more useful.
Content: Article | Author: Rob Adams | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Innovation
Winners Make Their Own Good Luck
To reap the gains and windfalls of a successful business, entrepreneurs must look to a set of attitudes they will find only within themselves.
Content: Article | Authors: Alex Rovira, Fernando Trias de Bes | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Personal Development
How to Bear Those B-School Bills
It’s best to start planning before you even apply. Oh, and be ready for the shock of returning to a frugal, undergrad lifestyle
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Francesca Di Meglio | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Financing Your MBA
B-School Students with a Cause
A growing emphasis on social responsibility and ethics among MBAs is having a positive impact in the classroom and the real world
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Francesca Di Meglio | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources