Europeans Opting for MBAs Closer to Home

🕔01:00, 25.Feb 2011

B-school-bound Europeans are increasingly applying to MBA programs on the Continent, which are shorter and cheaper than their U.S. counterparts Scottish business school student Steven Renwick used to harbor what he called a “vague aspiration” to get his MBA from

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Top 5 Reasons an MBA is a Bad Investment

🕔01:00, 16.Feb 2011

The once-golden MBA is quickly losing its luster For years, an MBA degree has been seen as a first-class ticket to the management fast track. People spend $100,000 (or more!) to earn the degree, confident that it will propel their

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AACSB Urges B-Schools to Adapt to a Global World

🕔01:00, 10.Feb 2011

Graduate and undergraduate business programs must do better at making globalization central to the B-school curriculum, the accrediting group says Business schools are lagging behind in preparing students for careers in an increasingly global world and need to become more

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Meet the enemy of the MBA

🕔01:00, 10.Feb 2011

Josh Kaufman, 28, is a self-proclaimed “independent business educator.” If Josh Kaufman had gone to business school, he probably would have graduated this year with an MBA from Harvard or Stanford. But Kaufman, a 28-year-old entrepreneur and former assistant brand

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Penn State Cracks Down on Plagiarism

🕔01:00, 3.Feb 2011

At the Smeal College of Business, dozens of MBA applicants who plagiarized admissions essays on “principled leadership” were shown the door. They won’t be the last dmissions Director Carrie Marcinkevage was sitting in her office reviewing business school application essays

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Optimist with MBA lands the job

🕔01:00, 1.Feb 2011

MBA graduates with an overall optimistic outlook spend less time and effort searching for jobs and receive offers more quickly, research shows Once they get the job, they’re even more likely to be promoted in the first two years than

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