Business education knits together the worlds of academia and business. Often pioneers in the higher education space, business schools around the world face the challenges of globalisation, increased competition, and the search for pragmatic relevance.
The US might have been the home of modern business education, but the idea of it holding a monopoly on the sector has long been assigned to the waste basket of history. Find a continent (or even a country) these days without a recognizable business school and you must be ...
It was the Wharton School‘s turn to make headlines last week, and not in a good way. The Wall Street Journal ran a piece looking at the decline in the school’s MBA applications over the past four years and asking, “What’s Wrong With Wharton?” The announcement five days later that the director of MBA admissions, ...
Business schools shouldn’t just teach business per se. Instead, they should teach good business, and many are—hence the increasing focus on ethics, sustainability, and social entrepreneurship. So why is it that the efforts of one of the sector’s top players, Harvard Business School, to help redress the gender imbalance in the higher ...
The MBA App, a new iPad and iPhone app that provides useful information to prospective MBA students, has been released by the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. It is the first MBA admissions app designed to assist prospective students in the complex decision-making process of whether to pursue an MBA ...
For those of you who thought you were done with standardized tests when you put down the No. 2 pencil you used for your SAT in senior year, the application to business school can reawaken old wounds. You now find yourself battling with the GMAT or the more recently adopted ...
Applying to the Harvard Business School has never been easier. Rather, it’s never been more straightforward – for you and close to 10,000 other applicants who are likely to apply this year for one of 940 or so places in the Class of 2016. After reducing the essay count to two essays ...
Although the attraction of brand name business schools such as Harvard, Wharton, and Chicago Booth have long dominated the ambitions of aspiring MBAs, a significant number of potential students have always begun the search for their ideal program with the selection of a target region or country. And while many factors ...
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