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Banks try to lure MBA graduates away from Big Tech

Banks try to lure MBA graduates away from Big Tech

🕔10:05, 19.Feb 2018

Going to business school enabled Alessandro Scauzillo to achieve his ambition of moving from a job in tech into banking. He is now a product manager in the online trading division of UniCredit Group. But despite studying at MIP Politecnico

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Doors open for gay MBA graduates

Doors open for gay MBA graduates

🕔17:00, 29.Jan 2018

Nick Deakin had a very specific reason for going to business school. After working as a doctor for two and a half years at Barts hospital in central London, he enrolled on an MBA because he thought a commercial career

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Mobile apps that can smooth MBA path

Mobile apps that can smooth MBA path

🕔01:00, 12.Jun 2016

Business school students need to maximise their study time, be able to contact classmates easily and keep abreast of extracurricular events. So which smartphone apps are the most useful when it comes to streamlining timetables and workload? The Financial Times’

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A cheap way of hiring MBA graduates

A cheap way of hiring MBA graduates

🕔01:00, 10.Apr 2016

MBA students are adept at putting a value on long-term cash flows. New research suggests this mentality is also present in their evaluation of job offers — particularly if an alumnus of their business school is doing the recruiting. Professors

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MBA by numbers: inside the $200.000 cost

MBA by numbers: inside the $200.000 cost

🕔01:00, 14.Feb 2016

When it comes to value for money, European MBA programmes outperform their North American counterparts. Nine out of 10 of the best value-for-money programmes in the Financial Times Global MBA ranking 2016 are in Europe, while 44 of the North

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Scholarships up the ante in fight for top MBA students

Scholarships up the ante in fight for top MBA students

🕔01:00, 7.Feb 2016

First, as a teenager, she emigrated from Zimbabwe, which at the time was plagued by economic undertainty and instability, to Germany, where she completed her undergraduate studies. Her African roots provided her with a second piece of good fortune for

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Insead tops ‘Financial Times’ MBA rankings

Insead tops ‘Financial Times’ MBA rankings

🕔01:00, 25.Jan 2016

Insead, the business school with campuses in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi, has topped the Financial Times’ Global MBA rankings for the first time since they were introduced in 1999. This is the first time that an MBA programme with

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MBA by numbers ? Return on investment

MBA by numbers ? Return on investment

🕔01:00, 12.Apr 2015

If money is your motivation for studying for an MBA, then the earlier you enrol on your degree programme the better. Data from the Financial Times 2015 Global MBA rankings show that the pay increase of younger graduates in the

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Do entrepreneurs need an MBA?

Do entrepreneurs need an MBA?

🕔01:00, 15.Feb 2015

Before explaining why I think business school is wrong for today’s entrepreneurs, I must start with a confession: I almost went to business school. It was 1997 and I had left a job in strategy consulting because I wanted to

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Why part-time MBAs are undervalued

Why part-time MBAs are undervalued

🕔01:00, 25.Jan 2015

Three cheers for the part-time MBA! It is not a refrain you are likely to hear every day, I have to admit. But why does the full-time MBA receive all the accolades while part-time programmes are met with a rather

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