Content written by Jonathan Moules and published by Financial Times on 10/15/17. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Partnerships between business schools satisfy EMBA students’ hunger for an understanding of different perspectives around the globe. Most of the top 10 programmes in the FT ranking of EMBAs are partnerships between institutions in different continents, while the … [Read more...]
Female MBA students are undeterred by Silicon Valley’s sexism
Content written by Lauren Leatherby and published by Financial Times. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Fern Mandelbaum’s Stanford business school courses fill up quickly. The professor’s two MBA electives on diversity and the “power of inclusion” in start-up culture are so popular, she added a third this year. On Prof Mandelbaum’s latest course, Equity by Design: Building … [Read more...]
How millennials approach writing, giving presentations, and data visualization diverges from previous generations
Content written by Kara Baskin and published by Phys.org. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: A new study from MIT Sloan highlights communication trends among millennial MBAs, with revealing findings. "Communication is part of everyone's job, but millennials do it differently," said MIT Sloan lecturer Miro Kazakoff, who co-authored the study with MIT Sloan senior lecturer … [Read more...]
An MBA: Will it earn you more money?
Content written by Belinda Parkes and published by INTHEBLACK. MBA News Digest Comment: This article is written by an Australian writer. She brings an interesting mix of data and perspective on the benefit of earning an MBA. Extracted Content: MBA degrees enjoy great prestige in Asia, with the lure of bigger salaries and a passport to a new, high-flying career – but is a postgrad degree … [Read more...]
WeChat replaces textbooks in MBA classrooms
Content written by Jonathan Moules and published by Financial Times. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Asithandile Nkatha recently completed the first year of her MBA degree at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management, but she has yet to buy a textbook. At the beginning of each semester, she and her classmates collect a freshly published and bound volume of … [Read more...]