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- a higher education institution that offers undergraduate and graduate courses in business-related subjects. Business schools provide courses of varying length and level, up to Master of Business Administration. They cater...
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- B-School Buzz: Riding Out Downturn, MBAs to India, London B-School Podcast, and More
- As jobs shrink in the troubled economies of the West, some of their top business schools are increasingly networking with India-based alumni to explore opportunities. Indian companies are still averaging double-digit growth and the broader economy, despite a slowdown, is predicted to grow 7 percent this year. That’s why many...
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- U. Chicago Business School gets $300 Million, New Name
- Entrepreneur and visionary marketer David G. Booth has made history 300 million ways with a $300 million gift to the University of Chicago business school, which will be renamed University of Chicago Booth School of Business in his honor. This is the largest gift to any business school in the...
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- B-School Buzz: Entrepreneurship and Negotiating in Shaky Times, Doing Business in Russia, Money for McCombs, and More
- Stacy Blackman's Weekly Roundup of B-School Intelligence Will and Beverly O'Hara have pledged $16 million to the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, the largest individual gift to the school since Red McCombs donated his name and $50 million eight years ago. It may be small...
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- How Philosophy Helps Businesses Think More Creatively
- Dr. Jochen Runde, newly appointed director of the MBA program at Cambridge's Judge Business School, brought up an unusual talking point for a business school function: the philosophical discipline of ontology -- the study of what exists and modes of existence. At the QS World MBA Tour...
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- B-School Buzz: Kellogg Risk Summit, Recruiting Women, Free CFA Program for Military, and More
- Stacy Blackman's Weekly Roundup of B-School Intelligence In finance, risk is intimately related to reward, but lately too many investors and executives tended to downplay the downside of making a business gamble. That was one insight that emerged during the Nov. 20 Kellogg Risk Summit as experts...
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- B-School Buzz: Flaws of Chicago Booth, Improving LBS, Leaving Academic Life, and More
- Like most of her peers, MaybeMBA chose Chicago Graduate School of Business, now known as Chicago Booth, for its flexible curriculum and great academic standards. Even though she can't imagine redoing that decision, she offers an enlightening post that reveals the flaws of this top school and should be required...
- Blog posts 2008-12-08
- B-School Blogs: Mid-East Crisis Strategies, Annoyances of Class Participation and Milkround at LBS
- Each week, Stacy Blackman brings you news from the front lines with business school bloggers sounding off on life in the trenches. In a recent post, Anand Darden wonders how some of the strategies discussed in last term's course "Bargaining and Negotiations" might apply to the...
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- Oxford Dean Argues Against Exporting Expertise
- With more and more top MBA programs setting up campuses in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia as a way to replicate their brand and product identities for locals, Colin Mayer, the Peter Moores dean of Oxford University's Saïd Business School, is a voice calling for restraint. “The real benefit...
- Blog posts 2009-01-15
- Entrepreneurship ââ¬" Book-Smarts or Gut Instinct?
- In my role as President of Stacy Blackman Consulting, advising on the MBA admissions process, I speak daily to clients trying to articulate their goals. Turns out, “entrepreneurship†is a very popular career path. When I hear this as a goal, I ask key questions: “What do you want to do?â€, “What problems...
- Blog posts 2009-01-26
- Solid Advice from Stanford GSB Leadership Coach
- Leadership coach Ed Batista from Stanford's Graduate School of Business had an insightful post last week on three things you probably won't learn in b-school. With a major assist from his colleague Corey Ford, former GSB student and a fellow and lecturer at the Stanford Institute of Design, Batista shares...
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
- USC Marshall Prof, Zappos.com to Offer Free Download of Major Business Book
- Professor Dave Logan of USC's Marshall School of Business has teamed with Zappos.com to make a free audio version of his groundbreaking 2008 business book "Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization" available exclusively at the online retailer. Since hitting bookstores last February, the...
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- B-School Blogs: Battling Sexism, Prof. Evals, "Legally Blonde," and More
- Inside HBS faced down the ugly monster of accountability and performance evaluation last week in the form of midterm exams. Fortunately, in a grading structure where it only really matters if you’re in the top 15 percent of the class (for “Honors†awards); all grades have zero impact on 85...
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- B-School Blogs: Cross-Cultural Mishaps, the Value of Money, and How Being Bored is Good for You
- Happy New Year to all! Many business school bloggers have spent the last few weeks reveling in a much-deserved moment of peace and relaxation, but whether students reflected on the year gone by or revved up for 2009, here's a sampling of the view from the trenches. ...
- Blog posts 2009-01-05
- Integration May Be Key to Fixing B-Schools, Says Heineman
- The idea that business schools need fixing has gained a near consensus post-economic crisis, but exactly how to fix them has been a matter of much debate. I recently spoke about the issue with Ben Heineman, Jr., a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's...
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Vanderbilt MBAs Create Targeted Travel Website
- As campus recruiting opportunities shrink, more MBAs look toward entrepreneurship as a way to get ahead. Students from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University have come up with a novel business venture to help their peers: My College Road Trip. The student-designed Website, profiled in the university's...
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- B-School Buzz: China Expansion, Marketing the Mega-Church, Entrepreneurs Take Heart
- Stacy Blackman's Weekly Roundup of B-School Intelligence Another business school expands with China campus -- France's CERAM Business School is opening a campus in Suzhou, west of Shanghai. Students will spend 90 hours studying Chinese culture to help them quickly become operational in the country's working environment....
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
- Focus on Individualism Creates MBA "Monsters"?
- Business schools have created the crisis we're in, says Dr. Peggy Cunningham, the new director of the School of Business Administration at Dalhousie University, Canada, in an interview published in Monday's Globe and Mail. Having left a tenured position at Queen's University, Cunningham wants to restructure the Dalhousie business school...
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- B-School Buzz: Playing the Blame Game, Ross Ribbon-Cutting and New Sustainability, Social Values Initiatives
- Is business school to blame for the widespread failure of leadership? -- The New York Times asked earlier this week whether it was time to retrain business schools in the wake of the economic crisis. Finger-pointing abounds these days, and even educators wonder if the way business students are taught...
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
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- B-School Buzz: Paul Krugman Speaks, Untraditional MBA Influences, and EMBA Relationships Bloom
- Stacy Blackman's Weekly Roundup of B-School Intelligence In Paul Krugman's first public appearance since winning the Nobel Prize on Oct. 13, the Princeton economist and New York Times columnist spoke before an overflow audience at the Kellogg School of Management in the first of the Kellogg Distinguished...
- Blog posts 2008-10-31
- B-School Buzz: Green MBAs, European Programs in Middle East, and BS at HBS
- Stacy Blackman's Weekly Roundup of B-School Intelligence "Green" MBAs still a bright spot in economic downturn --Â Although MBA programs with an environmental focus emerged as a way to connect with sustainability-minded students, today such programs thrive, more often than not, for the access to wider job...
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
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