The Challenges Facing International Students: The Long Way Home
For international students who choose to return home after B-school, the challenges are just beginning.
Content: Article | Author: Paul Scott | Source: MBA Jungle | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Hunting for Money: A Guide to Financial Aid
Add an MBA to your resumé, and your earning potential can skyrocket. But a B-school education doesn’t come cheap. Find out how to get yourself the right financial aid package so you don’t start off your new career saddled with debt.
Content: Article | Author: Maurice J. Black | Source: MBA Jungle | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
The Future of Branding
Branding has become the hot concept in management circles. And it’s only getting hotter. Jungle assembled five experts (Anne Bahr Thompson, Bernd Schmitt, Marc Gobé, Peter Golder, Nancy Koehn) to put branding under a microscope … and explain why it’s the future of business.
Content: Article | Source: MBA Jungle | Subject: Marketing / Sales
Conquering Cold Calls: When Professors Attack
Your response to a classroom cold call can make your reputation—one way or the other. Here’s how to shine when the spotlight’s on you.
Content: Article | Author: Deirdre O’Scannlain | Source: MBA Jungle | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Studying Abroad: Getting an MBA Overseas
With so many business schools in the U.S., why are some American students choosing to pursue their degrees at foreign institutions?
Content: Article | Author: Erin O’Connor | Source: MBA Jungle | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Tales from the Admissions Crypt
B-school candidates often beg, wheedle, and humiliate themselves to secure a position in the class. But it needn’t be so, say admissions officers at some of the nation’s top schools. Less is usually more. Often much more.
Content: Article | Author: Chris Borris | Source: MBA Jungle | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Valuable Insights from Top Professors: The Take-away
America’s best B-school profs share the one thing they hope their students will remember after graduation.
Content: Article | Author: Various | Source: MBA Jungle | Subjects: Management, MBA Related
Interviewing at a New Company: Off to a Good Start-up
Anyone interviewing at a new company should know this: The old rules have gone up in flames. Five founders offer advice.
Content: Career Information | Author: Laurina Gibbs | Source: MBA Jungle | Subject: Interviewing
Recruiting Experts Tell All: The Ultimate Recruiting Playbook
Ever imagine listening to a team of all-star recruiters, MBAs, senior managers, and professors talk about winning job-search strategies? Pull up a chair.
Content: Career Information | Authors: David Blend, Jacob Kalish | Source: MBA Jungle | Subjects: Interviewing, Networking
Pleasure in Others’ Misfortune: The Heart of a Winner
Feeling bad for feeling good. Such is the strange internal conflict that is Schadenfreude, a German word, literally translated as “harm joy,” that describes taking pleasure, however fleeting, in someone else’s misfortune. More complex and layered than envy or shame, schadenfreude is as universal a human emotion as exists … and yet it is a word with no simple equivalent in English. Largely ignored for … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Paul Scott | Source: MBA Jungle | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior
Start Your New Job Right: Stepping Up
Starting a new job is always a delicate dance. Here, managing directors, senior VPs, and savvy associates tell you how to make a great impression … without stomping on anyone’s toes. Topics include:
– Four ways to win over colleagues
– The golden mentor rule
– Nine things you’ve got to know about face time
– Four keys to nailing … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Source: MBA Jungle | Subject: Career
Return of the Corporate Raiders: Bring Back the Barbarians
“It’s time to admit the unspeakable: The corporate raiders who laid siege to industry in the late 1980s were actually an investor’s best friends.”
Content: Article | Author: Charles Slack | Source: MBA Jungle | Subjects: Finance, Management
Greg Brenneman
president and COO of Continental Airlines
Content: Thought Leader | Source: MBA Jungle | Subject: Management | Industry: Airlines
Richard Holbrooke
From Wall Street to war zones, master negotiator Richard Holbrooke brings a winning touch to the table.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: MBA Jungle | Subject: Management | Industry: Other
Why Your Resume Got Tossed and What You Could Have Done to Prevent It
The average recruiter sees 5,000 resumes a year. Any legitimate reason she finds to make one disappear makes her life that much easier and yours that much harder. Here, top-level recruiters reveal how candidates blow their chance to get a foot in the door.
Content: Article | Author: Sara Goldsmith | Source: MBA Jungle | Subject: Career