Topic: Higher Education

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»

Hope and Dreams

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

Are You on the Right Track?

It's exciting to rewrite the rules of business and build high-performance companies in record time. But when do you start to calculate the human toll associated with the pursuit of your personal success?READ»

Diversity and Academia

With a rapidly increasing diverse population, US college classrooms ought now to begin filling up with higher numbers of minority students. With regards to matriculation, the academic environment, faculty, and staff will need to actively support this more diverse student body. Going forward, academic institutions cannot rely solely on the increasingly diverse demographic eligible for higher education. They must acknowledge and address the cultural and economic barriers that may prevent students of color and first-generation college students from pursuing a college degree, ensuring that the student body more accurately reflects the population that the academic institution serves. READ»

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»

Feedback

The Dark Side? Responding to our September article on Nokia, readers raised the question of whether the company assisted the Iranian government with spying on citizens and arresting dissidents after the recent controversial ...READ»

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BONK College Game Show Bookings are Rolling - SPECIAL PACKAGE OFFERED FOR FALL CAMPUS EVENTS

That's right! The calls for the college and campus game show just keep coming.  The BONK Show will be making it's appearance at freshman orientation events, campus activity and fall sibling and parent events around the country. ...READ»

Jay Devivo

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Becoming a Doctor? That's So Dial-Up!

In this week's column, humorist and career expert Tom Stern writes about finding your calling. Inspired by a recent survey of medical students who voted against going into primary care or internal medicine because there was too much paperwork involved, Stern takes a hard look at how greed and laziness may get in the way of finding your real dream.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»

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»

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»

How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education

Free online courses, Wiki universities, Facebook-style tutoring networks -- American higher education is changing.READ»

• 5 Startups to Watch

The Test Prince of Bel-Air

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

Change Agent - Issue 38

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

'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»

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»

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»

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»

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»

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»

Get Smart Part Three: Curriculum Report

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

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»