M.B.A. students from top-ranked schools are increasingly naming technology firms as their most-desired employers, according to a new survey, recalling the fervor of a decade ago, when the dot-com boom attracted plenty of freshly minted business-school graduates. ❋ Joe Light (2011)
In years past, accordin g to business-school administrators, executives enrolled in E.M.B.A. programs primarily as a way to move up the ladder in their own company. ❋ Jane Porter (2010)
Instructors hailing from the Princeton Review and Kaplan, among other places, teach test preparation for the GMAT business-school admissions test and SAT. ❋ Katherine Boehret (2010)
Move Over MBAs, Here Come the Engineers Some dispiriting news for business-school graduates: engineers are far more prevalent than MBAs in companies' top ranks, says a new working paper out of Harvard Business School. ❋ Unknown (2012)
It seems safe to assume that "MBA" stands for "MacBook Air," unless somebody at Apple has completely lost it and would rather let that laptop go two years without an update while it ships a new application aimed at business-school students. ❋ Rob Pegoraro (2010)
A Varied Class For the most part, business-school admissions directors go out of their way to ensure that each incoming class has a variety of high-caliber students from different industries. ❋ Joe Walker (2010)
Indeed, many of the "disruptors" come from a business-school background. ❋ The Chronicle Of Higher Education (2011)
In a recent academic paper, Panos Kouvelis , a business-school professor at Washington University in St. Louis, pegged Waffle House as one of the top four companies for disaster response, with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Home Depot Inc. and Lowe's Cos. ❋ Valerie Bauerlein (2011)
The rise was helped by 21% sales growth in the professional education division, which administers the business-school admissions test, and 19% sales growth in the international education unit, which runs English-language schools in China. ❋ Paul Sonne (2011)
Ramsey offers some investment advice (much of which would have struck horror in my business-school professors), but for most of his followers, the main attraction is a simple program: give 10 percent of your income to charity, save 15 percent for retirement, build up a sizable emergency stash and a college fund for your kids, and above all, stop borrowing money. ❋ Unknown (2009)
When we shop for ourselves, we tend to shop carefully, trying to buy things we think are worth at least as much as they cost, explains Joel Waldfogel, a business-school professor at the University of Minnesota and the author of "Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays." ❋ Carolyn T. Geer (2011)
For example, he told of recently attending the 25th reunion of his business-school class, but he kidded that "I enrolled when I was 10." ❋ Charles Passy (2011)
A look at a few managers who break the business-school mold. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Universum surveyed 6,297 business-school students from 72 schools between December and March. ❋ Joe Light (2011)
The Arbuckle café, which attracts a young crowd of recently graduated entrepreneurs and Silicon Valley workers, opened in April in a big, open-air space that is a sharp contrast to its previous home in the basement of the old business-school building. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Its contributions have so far amounted to roughly 10,000 pairs of glasses valued at slightly less than the $95 it charges for its own eyewear, says Neil Blumenthal, one of four recent business-school graduates who founded the company in January. ❋ Kristi Oloffson (2010)
Mr. Ainslie said the new course structure should push students to carve their career paths earlier in the business-school process. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Spokespeople at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Credit Suisse Group AG and Morgan Stanley said they aren't changing the amount they contribute to business-school tuition. ❋ Melissa Korn (2011)
More Schools Eligible School eligibility criteria included accreditation by AACSB, Equis or AMBA, the main business-school accrediting bodies in the U.S. and Europe; a minimum of four previous graduating classes; and enrollment of 25 students or more in the class graduating before Sept. 30, 2010. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Though their ranks have increased, female deans are still a relative rarity in the business-school world. ❋ Diana Middleton (2011)
