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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»

Business Schools and the Financial Crisis

A large number of articles have been asking the question of whether business schools are to be blamed for the financial crisis. I believe the question that should be asked is not whether business schools are to be blamed of, but how ...READ»

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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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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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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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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Jay Devivo

The Anderson School at UCLAREAD»

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»

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»

Extreme Networking: MBAs Show the Way, Part 2

Incoming B-school students from Harvard to Stanford use Web-based communities to get to know each other, to make deals for cell phones, and to launch business plans -- before they attend their first class! Can the schools themselves get into the act?READ»

Get Smart Part Three: Curriculum Report

As the Internet changes the rules of the game, MBA curricula are evolving to keep up.READ»

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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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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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»

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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Learning and Change - Roger Martin

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

'You Can't Create a Leader in a Classroom.'

Professor Henry Mintzberg is one of the world's most influential teachers of business strategy. Now he's developing a new lesson plan: to change the very essence of business education itself.READ»

Kenan Samms

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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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»

Change Agent - Issue 38

"The core curriculum at business schools is as close to irrelevant as you can imagine."READ»

Hope and Dreams

University of North Carolina professor Jim Johnson teaches business-school students, but his real mission is to build bridges.READ»

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»

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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Harvard and Wharton Deans Try to Undermine MBA Rankings

These two top business schools will no longer provide BusinessWeek the opportunity to survey their graduating classes. Why? The deans basically say that rankings are crass and misleading. The real story, however, is quite ...READ»

George G.C. Parker

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Director of the MBA Program at Stanford Graduate School of BusinessREAD»