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Was an MBA Worth Your Time and Money in 2014? What Critics Said

Was an MBA Worth Your Time and Money in 2014? What Critics Said

🕔01:00, 26.Dec 2014

Some revere it as an opportunity for personal transformation and professional advancement. Others dismiss it as a cash-burning summer camp for adults. The MBA is a divisive degree—depending on who you talk to, it will secure you a six-figure hedge

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Stanford Bets Big on Virtual Education

Stanford Bets Big on Virtual Education

🕔01:00, 5.Nov 2014

Stanford’s Graduate School of Business took its relationship with online education to the next level on Wednesday, when it announced that a new program for company executives will be delivered entirely by way of the Internet. “I don’t know of

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Steve Ballmer Goes to College: On Campus With Stanford’s New Professor

Steve Ballmer Goes to College: On Campus With Stanford’s New Professor

🕔01:00, 21.Oct 2014

The public knows only one version of Steve Ballmer: the blustery salesman, sweating and booming away and trying to rally Microsoft (MSFT) employees or win over investors. It’s not our fault that we think of Ballmer in this way; it’s

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Does an MBA Matter to Shareholders?

Does an MBA Matter to Shareholders?

🕔01:00, 15.Oct 2014

Most of the top business leaders in the world do not have MBAs, according to a report released Tuesday, Oct. 14, by the Harvard Business Review. The magazine ranked chief executives on how much return their company’s shareholders earned on

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No, UCLA, Gender Equality in B-School Faculty Isn’t ‘Mathematically Impossible’

No, UCLA, Gender Equality in B-School Faculty Isn’t ‘Mathematically Impossible’

🕔01:00, 14.Oct 2014

Closing the gender pay gap at U.S. business schools is “mathematically impossible,” according to a finance professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Bhagwan Chowdhry, writing in a recent Huffington Post article, asserts that data showing women are paid less

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Seven Career Moves Every First-Time MBA Needs to Make

Seven Career Moves Every First-Time MBA Needs to Make

🕔01:00, 10.Sep 2014

Right about now, most first-time MBA students are obsessing over their coursework and the amount of studying they’ll need to cram in each day. While getting your MBA is a time-consuming experience, it’s important to focus not only on academics

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Will Harvard Ever Have an MBA Class With 50 Percent Women?

Will Harvard Ever Have an MBA Class With 50 Percent Women?

🕔01:00, 29.Aug 2014

The 940 students who started classes at Harvard Business School this week counted more women in their ranks than ever before. Women are 41 percent of the school’s 2016 MBA class, according to a preliminary class profile. That’s slightly higher

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The B-School Case Study Gets a Digital Makeover

The B-School Case Study Gets a Digital Makeover

🕔01:00, 25.Jul 2011

New York University management professor Glenn Okun throws a 500-page, spiral-bound book of Xeroxed course materials onto his desk. The thick tome contains nearly 20 business case studies and represents just half the reading his students will plow through this

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