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Silicon Valley May Want MBAs More Than Wall Street Does

🕔01:00, 17.Mar 2016

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel said MBAs are predisposed to “herdlike thinking and behavior.” Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen dubbed them a contrarian indicator, saying “if they want to go into tech, that means a bubble is forming.” In a post on

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Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg says you don’t need an MBA to be successful in tech

Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg says you don’t need an MBA to be successful in tech

🕔01:00, 17.Dec 2015

There’s a longstanding Silicon Valley stereotype that MBAs are risk-averse, entitled, and brainwashed into being boring, and are therefore not suited for the fast-paced technology world. The idea of foregoing a formal education to pursue an entrepreneurial venture is furthered

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Google Most Popular MBA Employer Amid Migration To Tech Sector

Google Most Popular MBA Employer Amid Migration To Tech Sector

🕔01:00, 1.Jul 2015

Google has topped the list of the most popular MBA employers in research that confirms a significant shift in business graduate job destinations to the technology industry. Tech has become a magnet for MBA students, who are energizing businesses from

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Banks’ Big Data Boom Brings New MBA Job Opportunity

Banks’ Big Data Boom Brings New MBA Job Opportunity

🕔01:00, 10.Jun 2015

In the depths of a 20,000 sqm vault on the outskirts of Madrid, Spanish bank BBVA is hoarding rows of computer processors. Instead of storing bullion, Spain’s second largest lender is stockpiling data. BBVA, which between 2011 and 2013 spent

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MBA Programs Start to Follow Silicon Valley Into the Data Age

MBA Programs Start to Follow Silicon Valley Into the Data Age

🕔01:00, 26.Dec 2014

Greg Pass, the former chief technology officer of Twitter, put the matter succinctly. The M.B.A., he observed, is “a challenged brand.” That’s because the degree suggests a person steeped in finance and corporate strategy rather than in the digital-age arts

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Do IT leaders need an MBA?

Do IT leaders need an MBA?

🕔01:00, 25.Nov 2014

Many CIOs don’t have an MBA. Maybe they don’t think they need one. So what is the attraction for those who have lost sleep and precious family time earning a master of business administration (MBA) qualification? For some IT leaders

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Is an MBA in Information Technology right for you?

Is an MBA in Information Technology right for you?

🕔01:00, 5.Nov 2014

I was trying to decide between an MBA and a Masters in Computer Science, and then I heard about an MBA in IT. Do you think an MBA in IT is my best choice? Trying to answer your question as

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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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Stanford MBAs: tech is out, finance is in

Stanford MBAs: tech is out, finance is in

🕔01:00, 3.Nov 2014

Lured by some of the most exorbitant pay packages ever given to MBAs, Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business made finance once again the industry of choice this year. Nearly three of every 10 MBA graduates at Stanford, or 29%

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