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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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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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Rising Star: Green Dot Public Schools

Steve Barr, CEO Los Angeles, California greendot.org Green Dot Public Schools is leading the charge to transform public education in Los Angeles so that all children receive the education they need to succeed in college, ...READ»

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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»

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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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David H. Blake - Fast 50 2002

5. Skip SchoolREAD»

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Get Smart Part Three: Curriculum Report

As the Internet changes the rules of the game, MBA curricula are evolving to keep up.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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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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The Campus as Living Laboratory

This blog is part of our Inspired Ethonomics series. It's co-authored by Second Nature President Anthony Cortese and Senior Fellow Georges Dyer. Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will ...READ»

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Rating America's Greenest Colleges

What makes a college environmentally friendly? Does it need scores of rooftop solar panels and LEED-certified buildings or will a PETA-approved cafeteria menu suffice?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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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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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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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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Law School Grants for Single Mothers

A law degree is probably the most amazing form of qualification both in professional and personal level, but at the same time is one of the most expensive forms of education. 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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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»

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Wilson vs. Woods

If you haven't yet read the Sept. FC "Open Debate" between Steven F. Wilson and George Wood regarding private sector involvement in (or in lieu of) public education, I'd encourage you to do so. I only wish to chime in with a comment ...READ»

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The Test Prince of Bel-Air

Robin Singh tapped his genius for logic to go from lowly Kaplan tutor to LSAT rock star.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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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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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»