Business School

American Manufacturing's Fall -Blame It On Business School Students: The New Republic

The New Republic | Noam Scheiber | Posted 12.22.2009 | Business


It's not obvious that you would. Since 1965, the percentage of graduates of highly-ranked business schools who go into consulting and financial servic...

Don't Start a Social Enterprise -- Unless You Have To

Scott Ballum | Posted 12.17.2009 | Business


Scott Ballum

Activist entrepreneurship takes a very strong kind of person, many days I wonder if it takes one stronger than me. It takes a visionary who is also a bookkeeper.

Business Schools Go Abroad In Hunt for Students

BusinessWeek | Alison Damast | Posted 12.09.2009 | Business


In an economic climate where many foreign students are increasingly reluctant to come to the U.S. for graduate school, many admissions officers are re...

Warren Buffet Tells Columbia Business Students: "The Financial Panic Is Over" (VIDEO)

cnbc.com | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business


Warren Buffett and Bill Gates spoke to a group of Columbia students on Thursday for a CNBC town hall and question-and-answer session. The business gia...

Sloan Rap Video: MIT MBA Students Record "Welcome To Life At Motherf****** Sloan" Song

Posted 10.23.2009 | Business


Four MIT business school students released this YouTube video today, introducing the e-world to life at mother******* Sloan. In this spoof of The ...

Global Sustainable Enterprise Kickoff at CSU Biz School

Greg Berry | Posted 10.14.2009 | Denver


Greg Berry

Colorado State University has an incredible program within the business school, Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise.

Why B-Schools Don't Change

Pablo Triana | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business


Pablo Triana

The dirty little secret of B-schools is that, even if they wanted to, they may not be able to unshackle themselves from practical irrelevance.

3 MBA Tricks to Shorten Boring Meetings

Tim Berry | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business


Tim Berry

On the bad days, in off moments, it seems like my two years in business school were mostly about learning the definitions of a few key buzz words to use in meetings.

The Coming B-School Collapse

Pablo Triana | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business


Pablo Triana

All across the board schools have been deluged with a flood of interest, happily collecting record numbers of application fees. The GMAT was taken in 2008 by more people than on any other prior year.

MBAs are "a Menace to Society": George Bush and Katherine Weymouth are MBAs

Charles Warner | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business


Charles Warner

As an entitled daughter of a privileged, powerful family, Weymouth, like Bush, did not earn her job on merit, but got it because she is a member of the Luck Sperm Club.

The Academic Man's Burden

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | Politics


Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

Academics are laggards, eternal followers that lack the ability to innovate and continue to inhabit a world of quantitative models oftentimes not descriptive of today's reality.

B-School Professors, Not Students, Are To Blame

Pablo Triana | Posted 07.13.2009 | Business


Pablo Triana

Note to profs: what you did or didn't teach MBA's didn't cause the economic crisis, your indoctrination is not that important, relevant or influential.

Best Careers For Work-Life Balance

nytimes.com | DAVID LEONHARDT | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business


The big influx of highly educated workers into finance in the last two decades has been the subject of some national hand-wringing lately. President O...

Business School Rankings For Bailed Out Bankers, CEOs (SLIDESHOW)

businessinsider.com | Joe Weisenthal | Posted 04.23.2009 | Business


No big surprise: Most of the bankers, politicians and regulators who got us into this mess went to a handful of elite universities and business school...

One Third Down

Dr. Brent Ridge | Posted 03.28.2009 | Living


Dr. Brent Ridge

While people the world over seem to be mired in the mess we've collectively created, I've already started laying the plan for what will inevitably come -- the next 2/3 of my life.

MBA Students Forced To Find Backup Plan Amid Recession

Reuters | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business


CAMBRIDGE - For decades, investment banking was a well-worn path to affluence for business-school graduates. But as Wall Street teeters, many are scra...

What Do Business Schools Teach Now?

Margaret Heffernan | Posted 01.17.2009 | Business


Margaret Heffernan

If business schools don't change -- fast -- they'll become like military academies after the first world war: discredited and obsolete.

The Ketchup Generation: Entry-Level Jobs Really are There for You, Even During a Recession; Here's the Secret

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business


Stephen Viscusi

Everyone I know under 30 loves ketchup -- on everything. When I grew up, it was just for french fries and hamburgers. Now, they practically want to use it as lube.

Harvard Business School's Greatest Lesson

Fortune | Geoff Colvin | Posted 04.04.2008 | Business


Does Harvard Business School have a future? Its storied past will get extra attention when the school turns 100 years old on April 8. But in a fast-ch...

What's A Millennial To Do?

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business


<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

God created youth for people to do what they wanted to do. When you get a little bit older, life closes in on you and, caught in a variety of strictures produced by our ambitions, desires and needs, we each take on responsibilities that require us to do a bunch of stuff we donÂ’'t wanna.

B-School Grads Shaken Up By Bear Collapse

BusinessWeek | Alison Damast | Posted 03.29.2008 | Business


The stunning collapse and fire sale of investment house Bear Stearns (BSC)--a major employer of business graduates--has added another worry to an alre...

Business Schools Go Beyond Case Studies, Embrace Studying Abroad

New York Times | James Flanigan | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Southern California universities have long led the nation in the number of students enrolled from other countries. Now the universities' business prog...

CEOs Who Need To Return To Business School

24/7 Wall Street | Douglas A. McIntyre | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Looking around the wreckage of some of the big cap companies it is not hard to find a few CEOs who probably need to go back to business school. Wall S...

B-school Confidential: MBAs May Be Obsolete

Yahoo! Finance | Penelope Trunk | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The Master of Business Administration degree has been a holy grail for decades. If you wanted a career that mattered and didn't have the aptitude for ...

How To Succeed With A Conscience: Business Schools Offer "Green" MBAs

AP | MICHELLE LOCKE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Business professor John Stayton remembers when eyes would start rolling at the idea of a "green MBA." These days, business schools across the country ...