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.
Chicago is often cited as one of the favourite US cities among Europeans. Judging by the results of The Economist's annual MBA ranking, they are equally enthusiastic about the city's business schools. Chicago Booth retains the #1 spot for the third year running in the 2014 ranking published this week. ...
Judy Olian is the Dean of UCLA Anderson, and is the John E. Anderson Chair in Management. Olian leads an institution that annually provides management education to almost 2,000 students enrolled in MBA, Executive MBA, Fully-Employed MBA, Masters of Financial Engineering and doctoral programs, and to over 2,000 professional managers ...
Sean Ferguson is the Associate Dean of Master's Programs at the HKUST Business School in Hong Kong. Previously at the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University, Ferguson also spent several years in management consulting and the software industry, working for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in its transformation consulting ...
We are still a long way from gender parity in the MBA classroom, but the incoming classes at a number of the world's top business schools report a record percentage of women students. Leading the way are US schools such as UC Berkeley Haas, which this year counts 43% female ...
Does having a global mindset make a difference in the skill set of a modern business graduate? For Sander Nieuwenhuizen, Vice President for Recruitment at Shell, the energy and petrochemicals giant, it does. The company hires 1,200 graduates every year, and sees a real advantage in attracting individuals who are truly internationally ...
While the Harvard Business School keeps the #1 spot on the 2014 Full-Time MBA Ranking published by the Financial Times, Yale SOM claims a place in the top 10, and Michigan, Darden and UNC Kenan-Flagler are among a number of US business schools making sharp gains. Top European schools remain stable, ...
It’s nothing new for business schools to offer international components in their MBA and Masters programmes. But, with the growing influence of emerging markets, it’s increasingly important for schools to display their global credentials and respond to student demand for a more worldly mindset. In most cases, schools do this by ...