Today, living HBS MBA alumni are a 47,000-strong community that contributes skills and knowledge to spur the growth and excellence of various organizations around the world, some of which they themselves launched or incubated.
The internationally mobile student population, holding non-resident visas with the intention of completing a degree abroad, has always been on the rise. In 2017, there were over 5.3 million mobile students meandering the globe to obtain a foreign degree. In 2000, there were about 2 million.
Columbia Business School offers the opportunity to gain an Ivy League MBA degree in the heart of the American commercial hub. We look at everything that makes the bschool special – including the advantages provided by its location, its academic uniqueness, its career transforming capabilities, its elite and powerful alumni network that can help you … Read more
Stanford Ignite Full-time is a four-week certificate program that helps non-business graduates formulate, develop, and commercialize their business plans. Participants gain knowledge of business fundamentals and receive hands-on experience that they can use to transform their ideas into real business ventures. The program, conducted by Stanford Graduate School of Business in summer, is targeted at … Read more
Many management consultants hardly complete two or three years in their jobs before they realize that there’s more to life than consulting. Consultancies have an “up or out” culture, meaning that many of those who feel they can’t make it to partner level, change jobs. Little wonder then that consultancies have a turnover rate of … Read more
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you? ― Robert Frost The importance of work experience in MBA programs is beyond debate. International MBA programs thrive on the richness brought about by the varied job encounters of its students. The curriculum appreciates the peer to peer interaction and knowledge sharing … Read more
The London Business School (LBS) is among the crème de la crème of the world’s top b-schools. Founded in 1964, it has striven, in its own words, “to have a profound impact on the way the world does business.” A constituent college of the federal University of London, the LBS welcomes over 2,200 degree students … Read more
MBA degrees don’t come cheap. Although salary increases and promotions often accrue post-study, tuition fees can soar into six-figures at top business schools. Despite these ostensibly exorbitant costs, the MBA remains a degree with significant quantitative and qualitative benefits that justify the investment – benefits outlined by QS Quacquarelli Symonds in this previous article (The … Read more
What should MBA students with entrepreneurial aspirations keep in mind when they’re planning to start an independent business after completing their MBA? What resources can they make use of while still in an MBA program? How do business incubators work in bschools? Justin Sheehan – Career Development Manager at the Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus … Read more
An MBA will be among the most important investments in your professional life. So it’s only justified for business school aspirants to ask. What financial returns can you expect from a top MBA program? What’s the earning potential in the next 10 years? Which business schools (in USA, Europe, Asia) will give you the best … Read more
Berkeley Haas is the second oldest business school in the United States. It is also the only b-school to be founded by a woman. A gift by Cora Jane Flood in 1898—her residence and a 550-acre plot—to the University of California, Berkeley, led to the establishment of what is now the Haas Business School. Today, … Read more
Money matters need experts who understand how money matters. And an MBA that trains in financial wizardry is one of the most competitive, lucrative and in-demand MBA specializations on both sides of the interview table – MBA in Finance applicants and the employers waiting to snatch them at graduation.