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

Scott Ballum | Posted 12.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Business, Social Entrepreneurship, Work-Life Balance, Business School, Mba, Business Plan, Business News
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.

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When Success in Business = Failure as a Human Being

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 12.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Fiancial Crisis, Religion, Moral Compass, Status, Romans, Money, Narcissism, Mba, Business, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

Business can allow human beings to fulfill their creative potential. It can provide great benefit to society. But it can also be used to promote falsehoods which end up hurting us all in the end.

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Business Schools Go Abroad In Hunt for Students

BusinessWeek | Alison Damast | Posted 12.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Thunderbird School of Global Management, Dartmouth University Tuck School of Business, Share Scholarship, Council of Graduate Schools, Business School, Kristine Laca, University of California at Los Angeles' Anderson School of Management, University-of-Chicago-Booth-School-of-Business, U.S. Business School, Graduate School, QS World MBA Tour, Boston University School of Management, International Recruiting, Duke University Fuqua School of Business, International Students, Graduate Business School, Mba, Business News

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...

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An Early Indicator of Recovery: Keep an Eye on the Students

Rod Shrader | Posted 12.03.2009 | Chicago

Read More: College Students, Economic Recovery, Economic Indicators, Entrepreneurship, Education, Mba, Business, Chicago News
Rod Shrader

As a teacher in the College of Business Administration at UIC , I keep my eye on a special type of leading indicator, the attitude of the young people in my classes about their job prospects.

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What is Your Employment Brand Telling Prospective Employees?

Jon Younger | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Branding, Mba, Mckinsey, Job Candidates, Exxonmobil, Employment, Business News
Jon Younger

The problem with an employment contract is that it doesn't answer the fundamental question of why employees choose your company rather than another. This is the question answered by an "employment brand."

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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

Read More: Investment Banks, Wall Street, Hedge Funds, Private Equity Firms, M.B.A., Financial Crisis, Soifer Consulting, Harvard Business School, Harvard, Business News

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...

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The FWDing of the Conservative Revolution

Keith Thomson | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Propaganda, Entrepreneurship, Conservatives, Email, Democrats, Youtube, Marketing, Political Bumper Stickers, Barack Obama, Mba, Politics News
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.

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3 MBA Tricks to Shorten Boring Meetings

Tim Berry | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Business Meetings, Buzzwords, Mba, Matrix, Roi, Diminishing Returns, Business School, Business News
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.

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

Posted 09.13.2009 | Business

Read More: The Daily Show, Mit, John Oliver, Daily Show Mba Video, Mba, Harvard, MBA Ethics Oath, Business News

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...

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The Boston Consulting Group Caused the Recession

Charles H. Green | Posted 08.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Consulting, Mba, Strategy, Trust, Metrics, Private Equity, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Mortgages, Joe the Plumber, Bear Stearns, Bcg, Wall Street, Business News
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.

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

Robert Teitelman | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business

Read More: College Students, M.B.A., Jack Welch, Financial TImes, Enron, Ethics, Michael Skapinker, Harvard Business School, Securities and Exchange Commission, Capitalism, Journalism, Business News
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.

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B-School Professors, Not Students, Are To Blame

Pablo Triana | Posted 07.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit Crisis, Mba, Business School, Professors, Economic Crisis, B-Schools, Financial Crisis, Harvard Business School, Business News
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.

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

businessinsider.com | Joe Weisenthal | Posted 04.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Bailout, Business School, Business Schools Rankings, Business School Rankings, Business Schools, Mba, Business News

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...

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MBA Hopefuls Grow As Economy Sinks

McClatchy Washington Bureau | Niala Boodhoo | Posted 04.16.2009 | Business

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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 ...

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MBA Students Forced To Find Backup Plan Amid Recession

Reuters | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Business School Recession, Business School, Mba, MBA Students, Business News

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

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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

Read More: Layoffs, Graduates, Business School, Unemployment Rate, Economy, Entry-Level, Generation X, Jobs, Careers, Pink Slip, Law School, Generation Y, Mba, Mayonnaise, Ketchup, Business News
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.

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

BusinessWeek | Alison Damast | Posted 12.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Finance, Economy, Financial Crisis, MBA Applications, Mba, MBA Jobs, Business News

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...

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The "Poison Ivy" Growing at Harvard Business School

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 11.28.2008 | Business

Read More: John McCain, Unemployment, Economy, Harvard Business School, Ivy League Schools, Obama, Harvard, Business, Wall Street, Recession, Mba, Business News
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.

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Business Schools Go Beyond Case Studies, Embrace Studying Abroad

New York Times | James Flanigan | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Business School, Ucla, International Business Courses, Business Courses, National University of Singapore, B-Sxhool, Mba, Universities, Southern California Univerisities, Marshall School of Business, MBA Programs, Anderson School of Management, Business News

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

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

AP | Lynn Adler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Mortgage Bankers Association, Mortgage Applications, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Mba, Housing Sales, Loan Requests, Mortgages, Business News

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...

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B-school Confidential: MBAs May Be Obsolete

Yahoo! Finance | Penelope Trunk | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Harvard Business School, Mba, Business School, Corporate Ladder, HBS, Business News

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 ...

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

AP | MICHELLE LOCKE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Environmentally Friendly, Mba, Business School, Business News

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

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

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

Read More: Hedge Funds, MBA, Business School, Wealth, Wall Street, Home News

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...

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