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...
The Find: A raft of MBA programs at innovative new institutions and venerable stalwarts alike are foregrounding sustainability and environmental issues in an effort to attract students and turn out forward thinking business leaders. The Source: An in-depth look at the rise of sustainability issues at...
If business ethics can be taught - and I have yet to read a convincing argument that they cannot - how should such an important lesson be taught? In business school, perhaps? That would seem to make a whole lot of sense. Business schools seem to be...
Forget the business school rankings. Choosing a course is as easy as turning on the telly for aspiring students glued to the 'job interview from hell' that is TV's 'The Apprentice'. Aston University claims to have been inundated with enquiries about its BSc in Management and Strategy...
Outside of the interview: Managers reveal when — or if — they hire MBAs. Value the Program, Not the Degree “When I have hired young people from a great program like Babson, I often see that they have acquired a...
M.B.A. programs in America seem to be in excellent shape -- demand is high, with more than 130,000 people shelling out tens of thousands of dollars each to get an MBA (tuition alone at Harvard Business School is $41,900 for the 2007-2008 academic year). Many graduates of the best schools...
Maybe B.S. Stands for Business SchoolBusiness Schools seeking a purposeLaw, medicine, and theology are professions, each with an organized body of knowledge to impart.“Business” is more like a trade or craft, requiring both theoretical knowledge and practical experience. The classic method for imparting a trade or craft is apprenticeship. ...
Should I Have Gone to Law School?Just Start a BusinessWant the get educated about business? Start one.running a businessI'm not sure if starting your own business would serve as a good educational tool. If anything, it's a heavy dose of reality. I think that business school provides a...
The paper addresses some of the dilemmas that business schools face in their attempts to teach, in conventional educational settings, practices such as leadership that are profoundly informed by experience. In the initial section of the paper, the recognition of relationship as the primary medium of education is advocated and...
In this article, one explores an intriguing paradox: the disconnect between the process-driven culture of business schools and the entrepreneurial, innovative culture of American life. This disconnect is most apparent with brands. The business-school emphasis on process produces brand clones, when what brands really need are differentiated ideas. Today’s corporate...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NESTLING next to the gushing waterfalls and foliage of the Singapore Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre is a shop specialising in nature books and merchandise. The shop is owned and managed by a husband and wife team, Morten Strange and Ng Bee Choo. As a...
With the current costs of ammunition it is often hard to justify casual shooting or sometimes even defensive practice in addition to the overall general cost of just day-to-day living. Ammunition costs went up a nominal 11 percent in January and we can expect another price increase towards the middle...
LOGAN -- "Whooo, look at your profits!" Jim Pehkonen tells a group of high school students. "As far as profits go, you guys are doing great." Pehkonen, a Salt Lake City entrepreneur, is an adviser to these 11 students attending the 28th annual Utah Business Week at...
New board members were sworn in and presidents and vice presidents were elected for the east and west area Jordan school boards Tuesday night. Jordan-west board members elected Peggy Jo Kennett, an incumbent, as president. New board member Carmen Freeman was elected vice president. ...
DMiPartners, Inc. , today announced their partnership with Learning By Grace, Inc. , aPhiladelphia, PA-based provider of online educational solutions forChristian home school families. DMi, a full-service interactive marketingand e-business management firm, will provide each of the seven Learning ByGrace academies with an integrated marketing infrastructure. Therelationship...
Core News Facts: -- PodCamp Boston 3 is proud toannounce Mzinga and Utterz as Plus Sponsors. -- PodCamp Boston 3 is taking place July 19-20, 2008 at the Joseph Martin ConferenceCenter at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. PodCamp Boston 3 is...
For an unprecedented 2 years in a row,SolarWorks NJ has been ranked #1 by the Philadelphia Business Journal andRowan University as the #1 fastest growing company in Southern New Jersey.The top 25 companies were chosen and ranked by researchers at RowanUniversity's Rohrer College of Business. This award recognizes thecompany's achievement...
Walker Expands Keenan's Northern California Public Sector Reach TORRANCE, Calif. -- Keenan & Associates, the largest privately-held insurance brokerage and consulting firm in California, announced today that they have acquired the employee benefits business from Walker & Associates, a Lafayette, Calif., firm providing insurance services and employee benefits...
On the surface, Lindsey Dunkley is your basic prototypical homemaker. She's 29, married to Tim, mom to Hunter, 8, Ryker, 4, and Tyler, who just turned 1. Her days are spent taking the kids to their lessons, to the park for picnics, cleaning the house, fixing dinner, the usual busy-ness...
When Laura Owen, 18, graduated from Bingham High School, she was excited to attend LDS Business College, with hopes of transferring to Brigham Young University. But now those plans are on hold, indefinitely. Owen and her family are immigrants from Great Britain who lost...
