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- B-Schools Publish Crisis Sites
- A number of leading business schools and other educational institutions have created Web sites or pages around the thoughts and research of their faculties. Academics can oftentimes provide perspective that sometimes gets lost in the rush of daily headlines. Here's a sample. Harvard Business...
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
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- From Wharton to Wall Street: An intro to corporate life
- The Running of the Bulls: Inside the Cutthroat Race from Wharton to Wall Street By Nicole Ridgway, 284 pp., Gotham Books, $25. Reviewed by Joseph N. DiStefano No throats are actually cut. Nor is anyone seen to much enjoy his food, or worship God, or make...
- Research articles 2006-02-26
- The Finance MBA: Life Beyond Wall Street
- Manhattan might be a ghost town, but regional banks and boutiques will still be hunting for talent. Top feeder schools: ...
- Articles 2009-02-09
- Wharton: Tying Exec Comp to Shareholder Value Lead to Meltdown
- In a blistering new opinion on the Wall Street meltdown, the Wharton School’s Knowledge@Wharton takes on the popular and long-held corporate shibboleth that tying shareholder interests to individual executive incentives is always good for a company, its partners and its customers. In fact, says the article, it’s at “the root...
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Wharton Profs Skeptical of Curbs on Compensation
- The Find: The public is outraged over perceived excesses in executive compensation, but the experts at the Wharton School are unsure executive pay is really out of control and whether we have a workable plan to limit it. The Source: An article in Knowledge@Wharton. ...
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- Wharton: Apple Needs a Clear CEO Succession Plan
- The business and technology community breathed a collective sigh of relief on Jan. 5 when Apple CEO Steve Jobs explained his gaunt appearance as a hormonal imbalance, setting aside fears that it was a recurrence of cancer that had afflicted him nearly five years ago. Unfortunately, Jobs has...
- Blog posts 2009-01-15
- Real Estate Oversupply Still Looming Problem, says Wharton's Gyourko
- What's the job outlook for this year's crop of MBAs in the battered real estate sector? And what lessons are MBA programs learning from the economic crisis? Here's the second part of BNET's interview with Joseph Gyourko, chairman of the real estate department at Wharton: BNET: How...
- Blog posts 2008-12-30
- Real Estate Oversupply Still Looming Problem, says Wharton's Gyourko
- What's the job outlook for this year's crop of MBAs in the battered real estate sector? And what lessons are MBA programs learning from the economic crisis? Here's the second part of BNET's interview with Joseph Gyourko, chairman of the real estate department at Wharton: BNET: How do you think...
- News items 2009-08-07
- B-School Buzz: Job Hunting in Dubai, Millennials Flood Programs, Spike Lee Speaks, and More
- Stacy Blackman's Weekly Roundup of B-School Intelligence Business school students at Oxford University plan to spend at least one of their breaks in Dubai, not just to swap gray skies for sunny ones but to secure something more lasting: a job. With job opportunities dwindling in London...
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- B-School Buzz: Etiquette for MBAs, Attracting Women to EMBA Programs, New Must-Read Biz Book
- Stacy Blackman's Weekly Roundup of B-School Intelligence Executive MBA programs trying to attract more women -- Less than 20% of participants in executive MBA programs are women, and Cornell, Wharton and Columbia want to boost those numbers, the Wall Street Journal reports. London Business School and Madrid's...
- Blog posts 2009-02-06
- B-School Buzz: Lack of Loans and Recruiting Really Blows; Start Your Own Biz Already; Stern Says We Love TV Ads
- Stacy Blackman's Weekly Roundup of B-School Intelligence Where'd the money go? Int'l students in a frenzy over lack of loans -- Ever since CitiAssist and Sallie Mae dumped their no-cosigner loan programs for foreign students last fall, b-school applicants abroad have been freaking out over how to...
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
- Laying on Bets at America's Biggest Pension Fund
- By Jim Christie, Peter Henderson and Jennifer AblanSAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Russell Read, the former chief investment officer of Calpers, the largest pension fund in the United States, knows his trees.Read owned a 500-acre Maine forest landscaped with the same mix of maples and oaks the colonists would have...
- News items 2009-10-23
- Galleon's reach
- Raj can mean king or princely in Sanskrit and, until last week, Raj Rajaratnam lived up to his name on Wall Street. Sent as a child from his native Sri Lanka to be educated in Britain and America, Mr Rajaratnam was among the most successful of a wave of US...
- News items 2009-10-23
- The Leadership Myopia Behind the Meltdown
- The Find: Wharton School professors weigh in on the failures of leadership that lay behind the continuing crash on Wall Street. The Source: "Eyes on the Wrong Prize: Leadership Lapses That Fueled Wall Street's Fall" in Knowledge@Wharton. The Takeaway: The malady is obvious, the...
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Layoffs Without Broader Strategic Planning = Bad News
- Vonage is in serious trouble. First it lost a patent suit to Verizon, and it was ordered to pay up $58 million. Then a district court issued an injunction forcing Vonage to stop signing up new customers. And today the company announced that it would slash an undisclosed amount of...
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Is Bad Corporate Governance to Blame for the Economic Mess?
- The Find: Professors from the Wharton School debate whether "America's executives and boards of directors are beset with an epidemic of incompetence, self-dealing or both" and, if so, what to do about it, in this article looking at the role played by corporate governance in the current financial...
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- Business Wisdom from Leading MBA Professors
- Every Wednesday, we feature discussions with professors from the world's leading business schools. As I began this regular series of interviews last October, the unraveling of financial markets around the world was becoming apparent to everyone from Wall Street to the proverbial Main Street. MBA students knew they...
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- New York agog at Galleon insider dealing allegations
- The Galleon Group insider trading scandal continues to grip New York two weeks after fraud and conspiracy charges were brought against Raj Rajaratnam, co-founder and one of America's richest men, and five others. Prosecutors allege that the defendants generated more than $25 million in illicit gains by exchanging privileged information...
- News items 2009-10-30
- 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
- A boss for the 1990s: No more Mr. Mean guy
- Everyone would like to work for the kind of boss who grants employees time off to take care of personal business. Now, the management gurus and business school professors are saying that that's the kind of boss you should be if you want to build loyalty and positive morale among...
- Research articles 1996-07-01
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