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MBA Summer Blues

You are a newly minted MBA. You don't have a job. You are not alone. Here's what you should do.READ»

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MBA, Your Green Card To Brilliance by Zeke Lee

The job market has become more stringent than before in today's precariously uncertain economic situation. Today it requires more than a mere graduate qualification to catch the eye of employers who are now looking to hire those with ...READ»

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Top 5 Green MBA College Programs in the US

What is a green MBA and how can you make it work for you? These top 5 green MBA colleges will show you how...READ»

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Gerald Haman

Everything I Need to Know I Learned (or Didn't Learn) in Business School Why I Didn't Go to Business School I left a promising fast-track career at Procter & Gamble in 1986 to go to graduate school. After researching MBA programs ...READ»

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Time To Scrap the MBA to Prepare Leaders?

Few MBA programs or executive training programs adequately address the crux of developing leaders.Business school or executive training programs should focus more on developing individuals' personal growth with an emphasis on values, emotional intelligence and ethical behavior in business.READ»

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Get Smart Part One: Admissions Report

Will a declining economy and the dotcom meltdown prompt a rush on the nation's best business schools? Admissions offices nationwide are standing by, waiting to see if NASDAQ troubles will prompt a deluge of MBA applications.READ»

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The New World-Changer

Social entrepreneurs and business school students the world over indicate that dot-orgs may be more powerful than dot-coms.READ»

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iTunes App Market shows GMAT Pill Application

'Time is money' ... and not just for Gates and Buffets and Obamas of the planet; but even for someone who, lets say, is entering and preparing for GMAT.By leaps and bounds, technology has outdone hopes. It is now possible to ...READ»

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GMAT Exam Preparation: Sentence Correction by Zeke Lee

The GMAT is an extensive exam that challenges student abilities in subjects of Mathematics, English sentence structure, understanding and reasoning. It would not be reckless to believe the English grammar section of the test to be ...READ»

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MBA Front Lines

Professors, faculty members, and second-year students at ten of America's most recognized business schools contribute survival advice and lessons.READ»

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Extreme Networking: MBAs Show the Way

And you think you know how to work a crowd? Incoming B-school students from Harvard to Stanford use Web-based communities to get to know each other, to make group deals for cell phones, and to launch business plans -- before they attend their first class!READ»

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Click U

Virtual networking truly clicks at Indiana University, where students of the online MBA program collaborate and communicate across time zones and oceans, using breakneck technology and scheduling savvy. Hmmm ... sounds a lot like global business today.READ»

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Rex Adams

Do Online Education and Training Click? Rex Adams Dean of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University Even for top business schools, using the Internet to supplement classroom learning is a relatively new endeavor. Fuqua was the ...READ»

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An Analysis of Problem Solving content on GMAT Exam by Zeke Lee

The GMAT or Graduate Management Admission Test is a basic deciding factor for admission acceptance to all Business Schools and schools of management. Designed to try the various skill sets like principal Mathematics, use of English ...READ»

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David H. Blake - Fast 50 2002

5. Skip SchoolREAD»

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Jay Devivo

The Anderson School at UCLAREAD»

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When MBAs Speak

Like it or not, MBAs influence a lot of what happens in the world.  They run major companies.  They lead innovative startups. They build the business plans and crunch the numbers that fuel a lot of our economy and culture. I ...READ»

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What Distance Learning Can't Buy

While distance learning makes it easier and faster to get an MBA, some vital aspects of a brick-and-mortar education simply can't be converted into ones and zeroes.READ»

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"Happiness at Work"...Yes, Really--Q&A with Author, Srikumar S. Rao

When I was given the opportunity to interview Srikumar S. Rao, Ph.D., author of the new book, Happiness at Work, I jumped for a couple of reasons.  First,  I’d been hearing about the “Creativity and Personal Mastery” ...READ»

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What They don't Teach You about in B-school

Should you go to business school? If so, how do you get in? And if you go, what will you take away? If you want to pass the B-school test, take a lesson from some B-school students.READ»

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MBA Recruiting Continues to Grow

It is the end of the calendar year, and though MBA recruiting in general has followed the market’s downward trend this season, MBA Focus has grown in almost every aspect of the industry.READ»

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Corporate Social Responsibility is Just Self-Interest

The world has changed. Even in this economic downturn corporations are being pressured to adopt socially responsible and sustainable practices. But how much should business be responsible for? And where are the lines between business, government and non-profits? READ»

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A Test Prep Track That Serves You Well by Zeke Lee

A common trend to get ahead in the race to accomplish a superior GMAT score has seen GMAT aspirants spend thousands of dollars on books and resorting to expensive test prep sources like Kaplan and Princeton. But why expend on books ...READ»

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Learning and Change - Roger Martin

"When you're building Business School 2.0, you don't start from scratch."READ»

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Green MBAs

The Bainbridge Island Graduate Institute, across Puget Sound from Seattle, Washington has an MBA program. Sure, a lot of institutes have MBA programs, but the BIGI program has a different dimension in that the school infuses ...READ»