31 Posts found for Source: Wall Street Journal

Interviewers and candidates often end up in situations where they’re almost encouraged to lie—here’s what research says about how, why and how often it happens.

Content: Article | Author: Rachel Feintzeig | Source: Wall Street Journal | Subjects: Career, Hiring, Human Resources

Reading a room is a skill that can be learned; a guide to nonverbal cues like how people stand or hold their hands.

Content: Career Information | Author: Sue Shellenbarger | Source: Wall Street Journal | Subject: Networking

Henry Ford invented the high-volume auto business when he saw how cattle moved from butcher to butcher in a slaughterhouse, learned that black paint dries the fastest, read about employee profit sharing from John Stuart Mills, and adopted the Singer Sewing Co.’s dealer franchise model. Look across industries, history, the world, and even non-business domains to spark a creative combination.

Content: Quotation | Author: Cesare R. Mainardi | Source: Wall Street Journal | Subject: Innovation

As companies seek individuals who can work anywhere in the world, plenty of U.S. business schools claim they’re “going global,” adding weeklong jaunts to China, Korea or Brazil and increasing the share of international students in their classes.

But that’s not enough to train tomorrow’s leaders, argues Pankaj Ghemawat, a professor of global strategy at IESE Business School in Barcelona.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: Melissa Korn, Pankaj Ghemawat | Source: Wall Street Journal | Subject: International MBA Issues

U.S. business schools have spent years courting international students. Now that they’ve arrived—more than a third of M.B.A. students at many top schools hail from overseas—the institutions are struggling to keep up with their diverse demands.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Melissa Korn | Source: Wall Street Journal | Subject: International MBA Issues

Mixing social media and on-the-job duties can be a win-win. Or not.

Content: Article | Author: Alexandra Samuel | Source: Wall Street Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

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Historically, there is a significant increase in the number of executives leaving their companies as market conditions improve and more job opportunities open up. Accenture research shows that executives tend to stay longest with those companies that offer the greatest opportunities to enhance their employability. By providing the three opportunities that executives want most, companies will be in a better position not only to retain … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Elizabeth Craig, John R. Kimberly, Peter Cheese | Sources: Accenture, Wall Street Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

Purpose brands create enormous opportunities for differentiation, premium pricing and growth. But reckless management can erode the equity of these brands. There are only two ways to extend brands without destroying them: Marketers can apply the brand to different products that address the same job. Or they can apply the brand to endorse the quality of products that do other jobs and create new purpose … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Clayton M. Christensen, Scott Cook, Taddy Hall | Source: Wall Street Journal | Subjects: Brand, Marketing / Sales

The Information Age has spawned many new professions, but blogging could well be the one with the most profound effect on our culture. If journalists were the Fourth Estate, bloggers are becoming the Fifth Estate.

All this fits with the trend toward Opinion TV. Less and less of our information flow is devoted to gathering facts, and more and more is going toward popularizing opinion. Twenty-four-hour … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Mark Penn | Source: Wall Street Journal | Subject: Miscellaneous

The Wall Street Journal’s first survey of executive M.B.A. programs measures which schools do the best job of turning up-and-coming managers into full-fledged leaders. The result: A ranking of 25 schools world-wide that accounts for the rigor needed to build tomorrow’s corporate leaders and C-suite executives.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: Wall Street Journal | Subjects: Executive Programs, MBA Program Rankings

WSJ review of Ahead of the Curve by Philip Delves Broughton

Content: Related Content | Author: Andrew Ferguson | Source: Wall Street Journal | Subject: MBA Related

Business schools are moving quickly to harness the power of cyberspace chats to tap students from around the world. Many M.B.A programs are setting up their own social-networking sites and blogs, making it easy for prospective applicants to contact both current students and graduates.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Cris Prystay | Source: Wall Street Journal | Subjects: Business School News, Online & Distance MBA

WSJ offers details and stats on business schools, including contact info, cost, application deadline, WSJ ranking, info about students, student placement statistics, and reputation.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Sources: Harris Interactive, Wall Street Journal | Subject: Choosing a Program

The five most dangerous words in business may be “Everybody else is doing it.”

Content: Quotation | Sources: 800-CEO-READ (8CR), Wall Street Journal | Subject: Management

To a large degree, jumbo-sized acquisitions are simply a response to the pressure CEOs feel to deliver above-average growth in revenue and earnings — a pressure that is more easily relieved via deal-making than through the arduous task of developing strategies that might rev up internal growth. This pressure is particularly acute when a company feels it has lost ground to a larger rival.

But while … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Wall Street Journal | Subject: Mergers & Acquisitions

Like their counterparts in Greek tragedies, CEOs who defraud their companies’ shareholders fall victim to their own sense of invulnerability, according to BCG’s Kees Cools. Writing in the Manager’s Journal column of the Wall Street Journal, the BCG executive adviser details the findings of his study of 25 instances of major corporate fraud since 2000. Not surprisingly, the pressure to consistently achieve unrealistic share growth … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Kees Cools | Source: Wall Street Journal | Subject: Corporate Governance

As companies have sought to slash expenses, plenty of fat has been cut-and plenty of mistakes have been made. What lessons have companies learned?

Content: Article | Author: Jon E. Hilsenrath | Source: Wall Street Journal | Subject: Management

The restructuring of Japan, Inc., provides great opportunities for acquisitive foreign companies, but also new challenges.

Content: Article | Author: Till Vestring | Sources: Bain & Company, Wall Street Journal | Subject: International – Asia

The Wall Street Journal tackles B-school rankings with a recruiter bent.

Editor’s Note: see previous years’ rankings at:
2006 – Content: Prospective MBA Content | Sources: Harris Interactive, Wall Street Journal | Subject: MBA Program Rankings