B-Schools: Should You Go for It?
Here’s how to decide whether pursuing an MBA the right move for you
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Jennifer Merritt | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: About the MBA Degree
What B-Schools Want Now
Students they’re sure they can place
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Brian Hindo | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Business School News
The Newest MBAs Are Still Gung Ho (2003)
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
Where Have All the Keynesians Gone?
Do big deficits increase interest rates? There is a strange debate on this question going on between the Brookings Institution and The Wall Street Journal editorial page.
Editor’s Note: this is a topical piece centered on the 2003 Bush budget proposal, but the concepts addressed are not topical.
Content: Article | Author: Robert Kuttner | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Economics
BusinessWeek’s Ask the CEO Column
BusinessWeek Online offers a new column that focuses on taking business questions from readers and posing them to CEOs who will detail how they effectively resolved that business issue for their corporation. The objective is to detail how business leaders think, lead and make decisions to the general reader, potential and current employees and investors, and to other executives who must make similar decisions … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: David Liss | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Management
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Andrew S. Grove
Great execution is necessary but not sufficient. You have to survive, of course. But you have to thrive, too. You can never come out of a downturn with only the same products that you had when you went into it. Leaders have to understand–at a gut level–the new possibilities that are out there.
Content: Quotation | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Management
Cracking Down on the Chaebol
The SK case may signal a new drive against corporate crime in South Korea
Editor’s Note: though a topical article, some of the underlying issues discussed are of value to those without extensive knowledge of South Korea and the chaebol system.
Content: Article | Author: Moon Ihlwan | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: International – Asia
India Is Living Up to Its Promise
After years of false starts, its companies are finally starting to soar.
Content: Article | Author: Manjeet Kripalani | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: International – Asia
Mapping Out Your Options
Treat these employee perks as a real part of your portfolio, not as a lottery ticket.
Content: Article | Author: Lewis Braham | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Finance | Industry: Investing
Texas’ Turner Talks MBA Admissions
Matt Turner, Director of Admissions at the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business discusses a wide range of admissions topics.
Editor’s Note: I partly added this because UT Austin is my alma mater (and I loved it there) and partly because some of the issues discussed really apply to any top program and applicants should be aware of them.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Brian Hindo | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Getting In
Yanking the Welcome Mat for Foreign MBAs
Alberto Fumo is the type of student business schools crave. His high marks and international experience landed the budding financier admission offers at Yale University’s School of Management and Cornell University’s Johnson School. But the Italian native chose London Business School rather than face a new trifecta of trouble with a U.S. MBA: an imminent drop in work visas, a hiring slowdown for MBAs, and … [ Read more ]
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Brian Hindo | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: International MBA Issues
Getting to the Bottom of a Company’s Debt
You have to piece together information from different parts of the annual report.
Content: Article | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Accounting, Finance
Mergers: Why Most Big Deals Don’t Pay Off
A BusinessWeek analysis shows that 61% of buyers destroyed shareholder wealth
Content: Article | Source: BusinessWeek
Why Women MBAs “Stop Out”
Sharon Hoffman, MBA program director at Stanford Business School, has noticed a trend among female graduates: The ranks of moms with MBAs choosing to drop out of the workforce — temporarily — and stay at home has been swelling. Hoffman has coined a phrase for the phenomenon, “stopping out.”
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Patricia O’Connell | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Women & Minority MBA Issues
Mark L. Sirower
Paying with stock is a strong signal that not only do you think your shares are overvalued but that you are not totally confident about the success of the deal.
Content: Quotation | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions
Building a B-School from Scratch
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
For MBAs, Soul-Searching 101
In the wake of all those corporate scandals, B-schools are emphasizing ethics and responsibility. It’s a sea change in business education.
Editor’s Note: Also see “What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples? Readers Respond” by HBS Working Knowledge:
Content: Article | Author: Jennifer Merritt | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Ethics, MBA Related
Japan’s Music Industry Is Losing Its Groove
Should You Follow the Insiders?
Mimicking their trades in company stock is no sure road to riches.
Content: Article | Authors: David Henry, Timothy J. Mullaney | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Finance | Industry: Investing