Archives: August 2010

MBA Application Numbers Reach "Turning Point"

Posted by: Geoff Gloeckler on August 25

A study released today by the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) confirms the MBA application "sputter" that was first reported by Bloomberg Businessweek on August 12. According to GMAC's annual...

Emory Film Program: Ready for Its Close-Up

Posted by: Louis Lavelle on August 18

Undergraduate business students at Emory University may soon have an outlet for passions of the artistic sort. Starting this fall, the school will offer a new concentration in Film and...

Business School: Hotbed of Narcissism?

Posted by: Louis Lavelle on August 12

The rap against b-school students for some time now has been that they're self-centered people focused on money who will stop at nothing, including cheating, to advance their own interests....

New B-School Web Site Features MBA Ranking

Posted by: Louis Lavelle on August 06

On Monday, a new website is launching for b-school students that I think a lot of our readers will be interested in. John Byrne, the former editor of businessweek.com and...

MIT Sloan Launching Collaboration with Indian School of Business

Posted by: Louis Lavelle on August 05

Fifty years ago, MIT's Sloan School of Management (Sloan Full-Time MBA Profile) made its first foray into business education in India when it helped start the Indian Institute of Management...

Free Online "University" Makes Its Debut

Posted by: Louis Lavelle on August 04

Too busy for b-school? Too broke? You might want to check out a new offering from PricewaterhouseCoopers. The audit giant recently launched the PwC Open University, a free online library...

Condoleezza Rice To Join Stanford B-School Faculty In September

Posted by: Geoff Gloeckler on August 03

Late yesterday, Garth Saloner, dean of Stanford's Graduate School of Business, announced on his Twitter feed that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be joining the GSB faculty in...