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Harvard MBAs: When Fewer Take Jobs On Wall Street, It May Indicate A Rising Stock Market

nytimes.com | Cyrus Sanati | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business


Fewer Harvard M.B.A. graduates took jobs on Wall Street this year than in the past as a result of the sharp contraction in the financial services indu...

The FWDing of the Conservative Revolution

Keith Thomson | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics


Keith Thomson

If you have a computer, you've probably noticed the torrent of right-wing FWDed emails. Curious about the origins of these FWDs? I enlisted a systems analyst and followed the digital trails backward.

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 Daily Show Lampoons Harvard's MBA Ethics Oath (VIDEO)

Posted 09.13.2009 | Business


Last night, The Daily Show poked fun at a recent push at Harvard to establish a sort of hippocratic oath for MBA students. Harvard's business ethics p...

The Boston Consulting Group Caused the Recession

Charles H. Green | Posted 08.12.2009 | Business


Charles H. Green

This ideology didn't just happen. It was four decades in the making. Sachs and Stanley refined it; private equity and financial engineers distilled it; Merril, Stearns and Joe the Plumber got drunk on it.

On the Matter of the M.B.A. Oath

Robert Teitelman | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business


Robert Teitelman

The real-life goal of management is to create wealth. The only MBA oath that makes sense should resemble that of doctors: do no harm.

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.

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...

MBA Hopefuls Grow As Economy Sinks

McClatchy Washington Bureau | Niala Boodhoo | Posted 04.16.2009 | Business


Add this number to the many fact and figures being bandied about during this recession: 246,957, the record-high number of GMAT exams administered to ...

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...

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.

Business School Applications Rise, But Job Prospects Are In The Toilet

BusinessWeek | Alison Damast | Posted 12.15.2008 | Business


After nearly four years as a management consultant at such firms as Deloitte Consulting and Booz Allen Hamilton, Ari Perlman was itching to try his ha...

The "Poison Ivy" Growing at Harvard Business School

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 11.28.2008 | Business


Stephen Viscusi

What W. has really ruined from a business "branding" scenario is the prestige and credibility of what it means to have a Harvard Business School "brand" degree.

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...

U.S. Mortgage Applications Sink To Year's Lowest Level

AP | Lynn Adler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


U.S. mortgage applications sank last week to the lowest level since the end of last year despite falling borrowing costs, an industry trade group said...

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 ...

In Dash For Cash, More Young People Skip B-School

The New York Times | Louise Story | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Most people who knew Gabriel Hammond at Johns Hopkins in the late 1990s could have predicted he would rise quickly on Wall Street. As a freshman, he t...