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MBA Academics

If you take the networking, career search and fun from the MBA, what’s left ? Classes, of course. Your tuition should cover all the basics, but we have compiled a few resources you might find useful for your research.

Business School Faculty Feedback: A Tool For Excellence Or Appeasement?

Business School Faculty Feedback: A Tool For Excellence Or Appeasement?

🕔01:00, 28.Dec 2015

Faculty feedback is supposed to be a great tool to assess the quality of education being imparted in an academic institution. For academics in general and business schools in particular, the faculty feedback mechanism is considered to be the vital

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How MBA schools are trying to teach character, not just skills

How MBA schools are trying to teach character, not just skills

🕔01:00, 9.Dec 2015

Mary Crossan’s MBA students can analyze business environments in Indonesia and Milwaukee, break down Coke’s brand identity versus Pepsi’s and list three reasons why Uber should pull out of Mexico. But most still aren’t prepared for the assignment Crossan throws

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7 books every MBA should read before they look for a job

7 books every MBA should read before they look for a job

🕔01:00, 13.Nov 2015

I consider myself incredibly fortunate to have spent my summer in Palo Alto, California, interning on the data science team at Wealthfront, a startup innovating in the financial services sector. I learned an incredible amount over those 12 weeks, not

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The 5-Minute MBA: Takeaways From Top Business Books

The 5-Minute MBA: Takeaways From Top Business Books

🕔01:00, 17.Jul 2015

Who has time to read anymore? Except for billionaires of course, somehow they always find time to read books, newspapers, and the Robb Report. It must be nice to be one of the few lucky people with the financial freedom

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MBA In Marijuana? Six Colleges Now Offer Courses

MBA In Marijuana? Six Colleges Now Offer Courses

🕔01:00, 15.Feb 2015

Are you trying to make a decision about which major to choose and wish you could get an MBA in marijuana management? If so, your day has arrived. As the marijuana business becomes legal, colleges offering courses in the industry

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Harvard professor sorry for fighting restaurant over $4

Harvard professor sorry for fighting restaurant over $4

🕔01:00, 10.Dec 2014

Harvard Business School associate professor Ben Edelman was in the running this week for “Most Disliked Guy on the Internet” — and all because of $4. After accusing a restaurant of overcharging him, Edelman began an epic back and forth

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Rotman apologizes for ‘inappropriate’ MBA assignment

🕔01:00, 8.Dec 2014

The Rotman School of Management has formally apologized to its students following backlash over a sexist MBA assignment. The apology, issued by dean Tiff Macklem and obtained by the Star, acknowledged the assignment featuring a fictional shoe-obsessed female character was

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Just These 5 Lessons Made the MBA Worth the Money

Just These 5 Lessons Made the MBA Worth the Money

🕔01:00, 20.Nov 2014

The best career decision I ever made was going back to school and earning my MBA degree. At the time, my employer footed the entire expense of that education but even if it had not, I had every intention of

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Faculty Feared Distance Learning Course Would “Cannibalize” Traditional MBA

Faculty Feared Distance Learning Course Would “Cannibalize” Traditional MBA

🕔01:00, 13.Nov 2014

The executive director of a leading business school has said that his faculty thought a shorter, cheaper mini-MBA program would “cannibalize” the traditional MBA, highlighting the challenges that business schools face in adapting their content for the modern business climate.

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Big Data Gets Master Treatment at B-Schools

Big Data Gets Master Treatment at B-Schools

🕔01:00, 5.Nov 2014

B-school students can’t get enough of big data. Neither can recruiters. Interest in specialized, one-year master’s programs in business analytics, the discipline of using data to explore and solve business problems, has increased lately, prompting at least five business schools

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