Archives: March 2009

MBA Job Search: Going to Plan B

Posted by: Louis Lavelle on March 30

With the economy in turmoil, many MBA graduates are finding the job search tough going. To give readers some insight into the strategies they're pursuing and the difficulties they...

Meet Grant Garcia

Posted by: Louis Lavelle on March 30

With the economy in turmoil, many MBA graduates are finding the job search tough going. To give readers some insight into the strategies they're pursuing and the difficulties they...

The Hunt: Lost in Job Search Limbo

Posted by: Louis Lavelle on March 26

With the economy in turmoil, many MBA graduates are finding the job search tough going. To give readers some insight into the strategies they're pursuing and the difficulties they...

Meet Bryan Glover

Posted by: Louis Lavelle on March 26

With the economy in turmoil, many MBA graduates are finding the job search tough going. To give readers some insight into the strategies they're pursuing and the difficulties they...

Fuqua to Offer One Year Master's in Business Program

Posted by: Alison Damast on March 26

Prospective students hesitant about shelling out $100,000 or more for a two-year MBA may be intrigued by a new program announced this week by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business....

Harvard Accepts GRE for 2+2 Program

Posted by: Louis Lavelle on March 25

College juniors applying to Harvard Business School's 2+2 Program can now do so without benefit of taking the GMAT. HBS will accept the GRE instead. The 2+2 Program was launched...

More Surveys: See How Your Business School Rated

Posted by: Francesca Di Meglio on March 25

Princeton Review recently revealed the results of its Student Opinion Honors for Business Schools survey, in which students rate their schools in six competencies – accounting, finance, general management, global...

Endowed Chairs?

Posted by: Geoff Gloeckler on March 24

Miami University wants nothing but the best for their new Farmer Business School building, and that includes chairs. From the Cincinnati Enquirer’s website this morning: Ohio officials have rejected a...

MBA: Masters of the Business Apocalypse?

Posted by: Louis Lavelle on March 13

What with the economy in a tailspin, a lot's been written lately about what role, if any, business schools might have played in the economic apocalypse we're living through these...

Job Offers Rescinded for Foreign-born MBAs

Posted by: Louis Lavelle on March 11

It's a bad time to be an MBA student--what with the the collapsing job market for business school graduates. But you really have to feel for the international students who...

MBAs: Business School Not Preparing Us for Crisis 2.0

Posted by: Louis Lavelle on March 11

By Anne VanderMey Since the financial crisis upended decades of conventional wisdom on business and redefined the landscape of American capitalism, new business grads will be looked to as a...

Should University CEOs Have Pay Caps?

Posted by: Alison Damast on March 10

With President Obama’s decision to restrict the pay of top executives at banks getting bailed out by the government, some are wondering where university presidents fit into the equation. Should...

Scholarship Opportunity for MBA Candidates

Posted by: Francesca Di Meglio on March 10

Money is tight for everyone – perhaps, especially aspiring MBAs, who are about to take on student loans and pay exorbitant amounts of tuition and living expenses all while forgoing...