- Wharton will host the first official "MBA Peer School Forum," a gathering of top MBA student government leaders. The three-day President Summit will focus on "inter-school cohesion and collaboration" as well as initiatives that will "bring positive impact to business and society." The event will include the collaboration of outgoing and incoming student presidents from Wharton, Chicago Booth, Columbia, Northwestern Kellogg, HBS, MIT Sloan, and Stanford GSB.
- As social media penetrates the business world, business schools have no choice but to jump on the bandwagon and make sure that their students are well equipped with social media knowledge, reports the New York Times article, "Business Schools Respond to Demand for Use of Social Media." Top b-schools, including Harvard Business School, INSEAD, and London Business School, are now incorporating social media material into their MBA curriculums. Anthony Salcito, VP of worldwide education at Microsoft, explains that as businesses adopt and adapt to the commercial value of social media networks, universities need to keep their students up to speed on the profitable potential of internet marketing.
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