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MBAs Increasingly Focusing on Green Issues
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 business...
Tags: Business School, Student, MBA, Sustainability, Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2008-07-24
Student Loan Business: An Ethical Dilemma in the Credit Crunch
The student loan business is going through a credit crisis, and some of the nation's largest lenders are responding with a new business model that may be sound business but is ethically questionable. Students at the top-tier schools are being taken care of, but those at the...
Tags: Games, Leadership, Blogging, Strategy, Personal Technology, Lender, Student, Business Ethics, William Baker, Internet, Management
Blog posts 2008-06-03
Five Hard Truths About the MBA
If you're counting on an MBA to help advance your career, new evidence might make you think twice. Hard...
Tags: Education, Business School, Management, Geoffrey James, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Student, MBA, BNET Feature
Articles 2007-10-16
ITT Educational Services Opens Bank Window for Students
For-profit education provider ITT Educational Services has delivered sales and earnings growth in past economic downturns, as more people pursued post-secondary education to learn new, or upgrade existing, skills in order to help them compete in a soft economy and a tighter job market. Results for the third-quarter of 2008...
Tags: Bank, Student, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, David Phillips
Blog posts 2008-10-29
4 Factors Shaping MBAs Today
The MBA as “Golden Ticket” has lost some of its currency in our present economic landscape, but BusinessWeek points out four things you can count on. 1. Competition for slots will be fierce Classes won’t become super-sized to accommodate the application surge, so admissions...
Tags: MBA, Student, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2008-11-06
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...
Tags: Prime Minister, Flaw, Student, Business School, Ruminator, Clinton, Professional Development, Career, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2008-12-08
Sample Mechanical Engineering Internship Resume
Use this sample resume to apply for the post of Mechanical Engineering Intern. Mechanical engineers work with various types of machines and create tools useful for other type of engineers. Internship is the way for students to know about their qualifications for their new jobs. Internship helps to find out...
Tags: Student, Engineer, Best Sample Resume, Internship, Productivity, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Management
Tools & templates 2009-01-01
Lufthansa Joins Social Network Xiaonei, "Facebook of China"
About two months ago, I wrote about Lufthansa's efforts to develop its own social network. I said, "What Lufthansa should be doing is trying to create applications within existing networks that students might find useful." I received an email from Frank Bornemann, Lufthansa's Marketing Manager Greater China saying...
Tags: Facebook, Network, Lufthansa, Student, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Brett Snyder
Blog posts 2008-12-10
Giving Away the Green for Environmental MBAs
The Sustainable MBA Fund, a nonprofit organization, is offering financial assistance to students pursuing an MBA degree in the area of sustainable development. According to its website, the fund is "designed to benefit individual students who are positioned to have a considerable positive impact on the further integration of socially...
Tags: MBA, Student, Leadership, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2008-12-29
Harvard's Clay Christensen: Why Public Schools Need Disruptive Innovation
The hot topics of conversation in America's business schools aren't limited to market meltdowns and job searches. Profs and students are also using business methods to diagnose problems with public policy -- and craft solutions. HBS's Clayton Christensen, best known for his books The Innovator's Dilemma and The...
Tags: Innovation, America, Student, Computer, Harvard, HBS, Howard Gardner, Jeremy Dann, Productivity, Leadership, Management
Blog posts 2009-02-04
Would-Be Mechanics Defaulting on Student Loans at Universal Tech Institute
For the first quarter of fiscal 2009, Universal Technical Institute post anemic year-on-year net revenue growth of 0.1 percent to $90.1 million. The increase in net revenues related primarily to average tuition hikes of three percent to five percent, partially offset by an approximate two percent decline in average undergraduate...
Tags: Student, UTI, Operational Accounting, Finance, David Phillips
Blog posts 2009-02-07
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...
Tags: Student, Business School, Social Networking Site, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2008-10-27
Study: Shoppers Bamboozled by Big Numbers
The Find: Shoppers are suckers for statistics and specifications and are influenced by even meaningless numbers, a recent study reveals. The Source: An article in Ars Technica referencing a study in the Journal of Consumer Research.  The Takeaway: Say you're in...
Tags: Student, Specification, Ice Cream, Camera, Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2008-10-27
Incubating Entrepreneurship at Wharton, Babson and Columbia
Entrepreneurship programs at schools like Babson, Wharton and Columbia are giving future MBAs a chance to try out their big ideas before the training wheels come off -- but in the real world of business. The Babson Hatcheries at the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at...
Tags: Entrepreneurial, Student, Wharton, Lang Fund, Entrepreneurship, Management, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2008-10-14
Measuring the Value of Environmental Activists
One of the vital skills business schools teach is how to measure value. The exercise is usually easier when the company being evaluated is a for-profit business. Analyzing value in a not-for-profit organization is much murkier. At Harvard Business School, students work through a case study to...
Tags: Greenpeace, Student, Financial Statements, Government, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2008-09-12
More on the Relevance of a Good Education
Maybe because it's August, but education continues to be on my mind, particularly whether American universities are out of step with where they need to be for business. A reader who apparently noted my posts on Clay Christensen and whether college is a waste of time sent a link...
Tags: Education, Student, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2008-08-19
Clay Christensen Shakes Up School
I interviewed management guru Clay Christensen about his new book, "Disrupting Class." He's applied his research on business innovation to education, a key issue for 21st century business see my earlier post on the book. Here are four questions and answers from a longer interview. ...
Tags: school, student, microsoft windows, productivity, pricing, scanners, leadership, strategy, operating systems, software, marketing, hardware, peripherals, management, michael fitzgerald
Blog posts 2008-08-07
Student Loan Corp. Loves Loans, Hates Students
One of the scary things about the Great Credit Crunch of 2008 is that the contagion of lending fear could spread from mortgages to other activities dependent on debt - such as credit cards, home equity loans and even student loans. And now, halfway through April, exactly...
Tags: Student, Student Loan Corp., Student Loan, Mortgages, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Capital Structures, Kevin Kelleher
Blog posts 2008-04-16
What's an Online MBA Worth?
A lot more than you probably think. But if you plan to get one, you have to finesse the degree's lingering image problem. ...
Tags: School, MBA, Student, Degree, Kelley, JWMI, Tags TK, Maggie Overfelt
Articles 2009-09-14
New Oriental Education and Technology Group Inc. F1Q09 (Qtr End 08/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Adele Mao – Susquehanna Financial Group. Adele Mao – Susquehanna Financial Group My question is related to the gaokao retake business. Obviously Mingshitang enrollment has ramped up very well over the past quarter. There appear to be...
Tags: Education, University, Student, Call Transcript, Earnings, Obviously Mingshitang Enrollment, Government, Workforce Management, Vertical Industries, Training And Certification, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2008-10-20
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