Bschool Life
By stacyblackman
- Nov 12, 21:31 PM
Wondering which MBA programs boast the best track record for MBA job placement? The results of Bloomberg Businessweek‘s recently released study of job placement rates among the top-30 U.S. business schools may surprise you.
With only a tiny fraction of 2012 graduates still out of work...
Tags: Bloomberg Businessweek, Goizueta Business School, Haas School of Business, job placement, Kellogg School of management, MBA job outlook, Stacy Blackman, UC Berkeley Haas. Read More
By stacyblackman
- Nov 12, 21:26 PM
More international students, fewer with undergrad business degrees, and a slight dip in diversity over the previous class were just a few of the changes recently reported by the Stanford Graduate School of Business when it released the MBA Class of 2014 profile.
While no two...
Tags: class profile, MBA applications, Stacy Blackman, Stanford Graduate School of Business. Read More
By stacyblackman
- Oct 29, 13:38 PM
Three innovations from Northwestern with strong ties to Kellogg School of Management received “Up and Comer” awards at the Chicago Innovation Awards, held on October 22. Now celebrating its tenth anniversary, these awards recognize the most innovative new products or services brought to market or...
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By stacyblackman
- Oct 29, 13:34 PM
The launch of their Big Idea doesn’t have to wait until after graduation for entrepreneurially minded MBA students at UT McCombs School of Business. Recently, the school’s entrepreneur initiative Texas Venture Labs announced a new scholar program which will award scholarships for students to pursue...
Tags: Christina Mabley, MBA entrepreneurs, scholarship program, Texas Venture Labs, UT McCombs School of Business. Read More
By stacyblackman
- Oct 23, 20:35 PM
Hello GMAT Club blog readers! We’re back to check in with what some of Stacy Blackman’s B-School Buzz bloggers have been up to lately. From thoughts on the new team-based application component at Wharton to the state of diversity at b-schools to how exactly does...
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By stacyblackman
- Oct 23, 20:27 PM
With entrepreneurship becoming the fifth most popular concentration at business schools today, we thought we’d share the Graduate Management Admission Council‘s recently published list of dozens of b-schools that offer innovation and entrepreneurship concentrations. If you’ll remember from a few weeks ago, Princeton Review and...
Tags: concentrations, Entrepreneurship, GMAC, MBA programs. Read More
By stacyblackman
- Oct 15, 13:13 PM
The case method approach has come under increased scrutiny of late. Established by Harvard Business School more than a century ago, it is still widely used at top MBA programs worldwide. Harvard relies on the case method for approximately 80 percent of its instruction, and...
Tags: case method, Columbia Business School, Darden School of Business, Harvard HBS, MBA program, Stacy Blackman, UV Darden. Read More
By stacyblackman
- Oct 15, 13:10 PM
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and INSEAD have signed an agreement to continue their educational alliance for another three years, the schools announced Tuesday. Since 2001, students from both schools have participated in an exchange program which enables MBA and PhD students...
Tags: alliance, Dean Dipak Jain, Dean Thomas S Robertson, INSEAD, Stacy Blackman, UPenn Wharton, Wharton School, Wharton-INSEAD Alliance. Read More
By stacyblackman
- Oct 8, 20:05 PM
The Economist recently announced its 2012 full-time MBA rankings, and the Chicago Booth School of Business came out way ahead in one area the MBA students polled believe is most important: Booth is a program that opens an array of new career opportunities.
Despite Booth’s reputation...
Tags: career services, Chicago Booth School of Business, full-time MBA rankings, rankings, Stacy Blackman, The Economist. Read More
By stacyblackman
- Oct 8, 19:57 PM
As the business world continues to shrink, having knowledge of and sensitivity toward other cultures’ ways of doing business is imperative for today’s professionals. But managing and leading across cultures remains challenging, as language, communication styles, and business practices vary widely across the globe.
To...
Tags: cross-cultural business, UNC Kenan Flagler, webinar, workshops. Read More