Archives: May 2010

Google, McKinsey, Goldman Tops with MBAs

Posted by: Louis Lavelle on May 25

Few things short of the Earth's tectonic plates move quite as slowly as MBA preferences in employers. For five years now, with little variation, the top three employers in the...

MBA Oath Loses Traction at Yale

Posted by: Louis Lavelle on May 25

It looks like the MBA Oath, a controversial attempt to give the business world its own version of the Hippocratic Oath, may be suffering its first major defeat. The Community...

Did Big Endowments Worsen the Crisis?

Posted by: Louis Lavelle on May 20

It's no secret, at least in higher education circles, that in recent years a lot of the biggest endowments have pursued an aggressive investment model that for a while brought...

MBA Job Outlook Improving. Sort of.

Posted by: Louis Lavelle on May 12

The latest jobs report from the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) is like that old joke: there's good news and there's bad news. So which do you want to hear...

B-School Accrediting Agency Takes A Closer Look at Innovation

Posted by: Alison Damast on May 05

Innovation seems to be the new buzz word on many business school campuses these days, with B-Schools opening up new design labs, including the word innovation in their mission statements...

Online MBA Alum Gives $4M - For New B-School Building

Posted by: Louis Lavelle on May 04

So are you getting the irony here? Don Tapia, who got his bachelor's and MBA degrees online at Saint Leo University in St. Leo, Fla., had $4 million burning a...