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Before You Start a Business, Do an Internship
in BootStrapMe, on April 4, 2009
Before you start a business, you can gain a lot of insight into you new industry or market by doing an internship in a business in the same sector of your economy. That was the advice of Karen E. Klein at BusinessWeek last month. She called it an "inexpensive way to avoid mistakes when you la...
Job Hunters Flock to Emirates
in Global Mobility Report, on December 26, 2008
As the financial sector (and business in general) sheds jobs in America and Europe, more and more business school graduates are looking for job opportunities in the Middle East - especially in the United Arab Emirates.
BusinessWeek recently took a look at this trend. Top business school in the US...
Duke Looks to Rewrite the Global MBA Model
in The Universities Weblog, on September 20, 2008
Duke University is introducing an ambitious new model for its global MBA program, according to Business Week . The new model will have students moving between campuses in Shanghai, Dubai, London, St. Petersburg in Russia, Johannesburg, and New Delhi in a fairly radical reworking of the global M...
Virtual Simulations in Online Business Schools
in The Online Universities Weblog, on February 10, 2008
Many online business schools (as well as traditional business programs) are adding virtual simulations to their curriculum. A new Business Week article explains: "Online simulations are Internet-based games that allow students to perform tasks such as overseeing operations management of a v...
Weekend roundup ...
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 22, 2006
I've been away in Seattle for a few days so haven't had any time to blog. That means I do have quite a backlog of news items to post though, so here's a bit of a cleaning job of some stories you may have missed.
*The Bioneers conference is going on this weekend and there's a sto...
Schools for scoundrels
in Sox First, on September 27, 2006
Don't trust anyone with an MBA next to their name! That seems to be the finding of a new study which has found that B-school students are more likely to cheat than students in other graduate programs. The researchers found that 56 per cent of graduate business students admitted to cheatin...
Rating B-Schools
in Businesspundit, on April 30, 2006
Businessweek has launched a new section that rates the best undergraduate business schools. It's interesting because normally we see these kinds of ratings just for MBA programs. I normally recommend that if people want a good starting salary right out of an undergraduate program th...
Russia Planning Elite Business School
in The Universities Weblog, on February 9, 2006
First Oxford and Cambridge established business schools to rival America's best. Now it seems Russia is following suit :
Read this from MosNews.com:
In next two or three years Russia is expected to form two business schools which will compete with Harvard and Stanford. One school will ...
MBA Students Gaining More Dual-Degree Options
in The Universities Weblog, on January 13, 2006
(Source: UNC-Chapel Hill) The MBA has always provided some competitive advantage for job seekers. People of course took notice of that, and more students have sought the degree, which now can be earned just about anywhere. As a result, the credential has lost some of its currency, much like the B...
Interview with MBA Applicant Wiki Creator
in The Social Networking Weblog, on January 6, 2006
ClearAdmit is a MBA Applicant wiki that's recently launched. I was able to get some answers as to their plans from Alex Brown of ClearAdmit. Why you created it? The MBA applicant community is typically pretty open to sharing ideas and experiences, this occurs on various applican...
Online MBAs soaring, but do they make the grade
in The Online Universities Weblog, on August 22, 2005
Business Week asks the question - do online MBAs make the grade ?
Many of the online MBA programs are well-regarded and offer a way for busy people, such as Bolger, to get advanced education without having to sidetrack a career for a year or two. But, as in many growing fields, cautions abound. ...
MBA Applications Still Down, But Only Slightly
in The Universities Weblog, on August 12, 2005
(Source: University of Virginia) The Graduate Management Admissions Council recently released a study showing that, for the third consecutive year, applications to MBA programs have declined . The good news for B-schools? The decrease was the smallest over that three-year span. Some credit th...
University of Maryland B-School Offers Insider Tips
in The Universities Weblog, on May 18, 2005
Interested in the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business ? If so, check out this BusinessWeek conversation with the school's director of admissions. And learn more about "value-added" resumes.
By the way, did you know the Wall Street Journal rank...
MBA Programs Offering More Study Abroad Options
in The Universities Weblog, on May 13, 2005
The term "global economy" may seem trite, but business schools are increasingly paying attention to its implications. As such, they're offering more opportunities to study abroad, and students are taking advantage.
Here's a bit from a BusinessWeek article:
In the past five yea...
Inside MBA Admissions
in The Universities Weblog, on April 22, 2005
For insiders' perspectives on MBA admissions, check out this BusinessWeek online feature. You'll find Q&A sessions with representatives from leading business schools throughout the U.S. and abroad, all offering tips on how to navigate the application process and impress admiss...
B-School Applications Down
in The Universities Weblog, on August 11, 2004
(Source: University of Pennsylvania) According to the chronicle of higher education , applications to full-time M.B.A. programs have dropped. The article ( here , for subscribers) says the following:
More than three-quarters of the two-year, full-time M.B.A. programs surveyed received ...
University Rankings Galore
in The Universities Weblog, on March 10, 2004
Everyone's familiar with U.S. News and World Report 's rankings of colleges and graduate schools, as well as some others such as those in Business Week . For people obsessed with rankings, here's a smorgasbord of them. You'll find links to evaluations of undergraduate schools...
Online University Review - De Vry
in The Online Universities Weblog, on January 9, 2004
Following on from my highlights on searching for online MBA programs, here is another useful resource called The Online Degree .
Here they rank a few of the top online MBA courses in the upper left, such as DeVry University Online and you can alternatively order a request for more information f...
Top Business Schools and MBA Programs
in The Online Universities Weblog, on January 8, 2004
Business Week has highlighted some of the top MBA programs where you can find traditional as well as distance learning courses.
They don't rank distance learning programs like they do the traditional ones, but this page is a useful place to start searching and has data from 2003 back to ...