Simon Rochester MBA: Student blog on life and experience in the program
Ayan Halder, currently an MBA student at the Simon Business School (Rochester University) walks us through his experience.
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Sloan Fellows Program Review: MIT vs LBS vs Stanford – MBA after 30
Q: What would you do to make a positive global impact in the latter half your career? A: Turn to a program that peaks my innovation and makes me a future leader. Sloan Fellows is such a program, a Master’s designed to push the potential of high achieving, deeply motivated, mid-career professionals, with over 10 … Read more
Best MBA Programs for Entrepreneurship and Start-Ups
Watch this video first: Best MBA in Entrepreneurship What comes first – the MBA bird or the Entrepreneurial golden egg? In other words, we should first start with a brief parley on whether an MBA really helps to push a start-up business forward (Read Are entrepreneurs born or made?). After all, if history has taught … Read more
Improving workforce diversity starts with understanding it says HEC Paris Professor
Professor Matteo Winkler from HEC Paris is an expert in the areas of arbitration, litigation, LGBT issues, Internet law and family law. He is also an active blogger in Italy for civil rights and fundamental freedom. He completed his Ph.D. in International Law & Economics from Bocconi University and obtained an LL.M. (Master of Laws) … Read more
Grade nondisclosure policy: Pros and cons to consider before choosing a program
A grade nondisclosure (ND) policy refers to a prohibition imposed in some business-management schools on students revealing their grades or GPAs to recruiters until they have been hired.
What to do after getting an MBA admit from a university abroad
It’s the sweetest time you’ll experience during your MBA life cycle – that time between being accepted by the program of your choice and actually starting classes. It’s a time when you’re walking on air, the world seems like a much nicer place and you believe you’re luckier than everyone else!
16 things every Cornell Johnson MBA student should know
The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management is part of Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business. It was in 1946 that Cornell University, an Ivy League university, established the “School for Business and Public Administration,” offering MBA and MPA degrees. The first-year course fee was a princely sum of $200. In 1984, Samuel … Read more
Can An MBA Degree Teach You To Be Successful?
We’ve changed the age old question (‘Will an MBA make me successful?’) in a subtle manner. Rather than looking at the end product itself (i.e. the degree), we’re looking at what skills and traits you are learning from the degree and taking back with you in your quest for success in the business world.
Why MBA causes breakup
Everyone knows that b-school is about classes, projects, studies, grades, networking, internships, and job search. It’s common knowledge that students also party hard and that happy hours followed by hangovers and hookups are routine. It’s no secret that all this business and pleasure often choke serious relationships out of existence.
CMU Tepper professors gaze into the crystal ball and reveal emerging business trends
The world of business continues to evolve rapidly and companies unaware of the emerging business trends are often caught off-guard. Rather than focusing on their business, managers end up spending precious time and resources on fire-fighting and reacting to these changes.
MBA vs PGDM, PGDBM, PGPM, MMS: Differences and Similarities
One rather crucial feature, that is not lacking for all prospective business apprentices, is options. If anything, these would-be students are bombarded with so many choices of business degrees that it’s almost too easy to get lost and confused, as witnessed by the scores of questions, crying out what should I do next, is this … Read more
16 things every MIT Sloan MBA student should know
Semester after semester, as many as 1,300 students are expertly guided toward the path of innovation in business by 200 academic staff at MIT Sloan School of Management. The teachers and their students have obviously met with success: Sloan alumni have founded more than 650 companies. But there’s a lot more to Sloan. Here are … Read more