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B-Schools All A-Twitter Over Social Media

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:40:00 EDT - With interest in social media growing, B-schools are adding courses to teach students what it means for business

Budding Entrepreneurs' Business Education Basics

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:21:00 EDT - Starting a business? There are many ways to learn startup basics without spending a fortune to get an MBA. You just need to know where to look

Asian B-Schools Target Western Students

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:17:57 EDT - With Asian economies booming, four top Asian business schools join forces to recruit students from the U.S., Canada, and Europe

Chat Transcript: London Business School

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:20:00 EDT - Admissions manager Oliver Ashby fields questions on the MBA admissions process and career prospects for new grads

Wharton's Siegel on U.S. Economy

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:44:56 EDT - Jeremy Siegel, a professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, talks with Bloomberg's Carol Massar and Matt Miller about the outlook for the U.S. economy and stock market.

Admissions Q&A: Georgia Tech

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:20:00 EDT - MBA Admissions Director Paula Wilson explains why employability is one criterion Georgia Tech uses to evaluate applicants

Top Cities for New College Grads

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:00:00 EDT - Good pay, affordability, and jobs made the South shine this year. Seven Southern cities, including five in Texas, joined the list, and Houston is No. 1

News from the MIT Sloan School of Management

News and feature stories from the MIT Sloan School of Management

An MIT Sloan Milestone: First-ever sustainability certificates awarded

This June, Christina Ingersoll, MBA '10, and Carolina Mondelo Bas, SF '10, became the first two students to receive the new MIT Sloan Certificate in Sustainability, a remarkable achievement given that the certificate program was not announced until February 2010.

What we touch unconsciously influences how we think, says MIT Sloan professor

Through a series of experiments, Joshua Ackerman, an assistant professor of marketing at MIT Sloan, tested how three dimensions of touch--that of weight, texture and hardness--can unconsciously influence judgments and decisions about unrelated events, situations, and objects.

Nobel laureate Robert C. Merton rejoins the faculty of MIT Sloan School of Management

Robert C. Merton, an architect of modern finance theory and Nobel laureate in economics, has rejoined the faculty of MIT Sloan School of Management.

MIT Sloan MBA Convocation 2010

On June 3, 2010 members of the MBA and LGO classes of 2010 and their families gathered in Kresge auditorium to mark the completion of their degrees at the second annual MBA Convocation. The event was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the graduates' time at MIT Sloan and anticipate all that the future may hold for their careers and their lives. The Convocation festivities included speeches by David C. Schmittlein, John C Head III Dean; Christiana Obiaya, MBA '10; and distinguished alumni speaker Edward Roberts, MIT, SB, SM '58, Electrical Engineering, SM '60, Management, PhD '62, Economics, David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology.

Simulating the Solar Industry: A new interactive tool developed at MIT Sloan creates a virtual world for students to learn about competitive strategy and business

Imagine you are a senior manager at SunPower, a leading Silicon Valley-based company in the solar photovoltaic industry. You work in a dynamic industry – one that is growing rapidly, with intense competition from other manufacturers, large and small. You've just been asked to formulate the company's competitive strategy, and now have some big decisions to make: how should you set prices for your solar panels? How do you protect proprietary technical knowledge? How will you pay for expansion?

Climate change bills ease cost burden on lower income households, says Senior Lecturer John Reilly

Environmental concerns drive much of the debate about how to reduce greenhouse gases, but new research by an MIT Sloan expert on climate change has produced a surprising economic finding: Higher energy prices resulting from cap and trade bills before Congress would tend to be progressive by placing a larger cost burden on wealthier rather than lower-income households.

MIT Sloan launches new Executive MBA Program for high-potential leaders

Building on its distinguished MBA and mid-career education programs, MIT Sloan School of Management announces the launch of its new MBA for Executives Program.

Financial Times

Financial Times

Grandes écoles face a fresh revolution

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:12:23 GMT - Business schools in France respond to reforms with partnerships and acquisitions

Rise of the business-savvy engineer

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:12:35 GMT - The Masters in Engineering Management enjoys a surge in popularity

US schools see their power begin to wane

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:12:45 GMT - The institutions are no longer a force majeure in the rankings. Comment online

Interactive rankings data

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:25:07 GMT - Schools are benefiting as the global financial sector slowly revives Masters in Finance programmes 2010 Masters in Finance 2010 special report Alternative to a PhD Listing analysis

MBA blog

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:12:42 GMT - MBA students from business schools around the globe blog their experiences

California dreamin’ for leader at Berkeley

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:22:12 GMT - Linda Anderson talks to the head of Haas School of Business about his radical plans

Something for the weekend

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:54:34 GMT - The latest research suggests it is important to think about how you are communicating as well as what you are saying, and that you don’t need to speak powerfully to be a succesful leader

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Chat Transcript: London Business School

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:08:41 -0700 - Among the top international MBA programs, a berth at London Business School (London Full-Time MBA Profile), is among the most coveted in all of Europe. As a result, the competition to get in is getting fiercer. During a live chat on July 21, Oliver Ashby (screen name: OliverAshbyLBS), manager of recruitment and admissions at LBS, fielded questions from the audience and Bloomberg Businessweek ...

B-Schools All A-Twitter Over Social Media

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:27:55 -0700 - With interest in social media growing, B-schools are adding courses to teach students what it means for business

MBA students: Flexibility key for women

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:45:51 -0700 - Despite two decades of efforts to ease the pressures of culture, age and family needs, still only a third of MBA students are female For 20 years business schools have claimed that they want to attract more women, but little has changed. There's still a consistent worldwide gender imbalance of MBA admissions, according to the Association of MBAs, with men outnumbering women by 70%. Eastern ...

Centenary College closes satellite schools in China, Taiwan after finding rampant cheating

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:28:37 -0700 - Jerry McCrea/The Star LedgerView of the Edward W. Seay Administration building at Centenary College in Hacketstown. HACKETTSTOWN — Centenary College is closing its satellite business schools in China and Taiwan after discovering rampant cheating among local students, campus officials said....

MBA business schools: Home or abroad: where to study

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:46:01 -0700 - Business education in the UK is widely respected and driven by overseas learning UK business schools are receiving an unexpected boost from the recession (see story opposite). "A consistently undervalued pound means the UK has been gaining international students who might otherwise have gone to Europe or the US. We represent better value for money," says Chris Bones, dean of Henley Business ...

Budding Entrepreneurs' Business Education Basics

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:58:11 -0700 - Starting a business? There are many ways to learn startup basics without spending a fortune to get an MBA. You just need to know where to look

Multimedia Application Questions Emerge as Common Tool in Business School Admissions Process, Says Veritas Prep

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:24:15 -0700 - Leading MBA Admissions Consulting Firm Explains the Rising Incidence of Multimedia Questions Among Top Programs and What the Trend Means for Business School Applicants