Content written by Joanne Lipman and published by Harvard Business Review. MBA News Digest Comment: Is your career placement office doing anything to help? Extracted Content: When it comes to working families, employers and politicians tend to focus on new mothers and fathers. Yet parents who leave the workforce when their kids are young but later want to reenter it might be corporate … [Read more...]
Favorite MBA Courses Of The Class Of 2019
Content written by Jeff Schmitt and published by Poets&Quants. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Every MBA has that favorite course. Some consider it to be their defining moment, an awakening that they refer back to throughout their careers. Such courses provoke, motivate, prepare, and ultimately shape the students who take them. That why Poets&Quants asked this … [Read more...]
Recent alumni of graduate business programs better equipped to tackle workplace gender inequality
Content written by Jennifer Lewington and published by The Globe and Mail. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Recent alumni credit their graduate business programs with equipping them to tackle gender inequality in the workplace, according to a global survey, but men and women differ in their assessment of the severity of the problem. Of 900 male and female MBA alumni from … [Read more...]
New Data in College Scorecard Promises to Lift Veil on ‘Debt Fueled’ Graduate-School Market
Content written by Katherine Mangan and published by The Chronicle of Higher Education. MBA News Digest Comment: This article provides insight into the "college scorecard" reporting requirement. Extracted Content: While much of the attention on the new program-level data in the College Scorecard, the federal government’s consumer-oriented online database, has focused on undergraduate … [Read more...]
Frank M. Sands Sr. (MBA ’63) Donates to UVA Darden the Largest Gift in School History
Content written and published by the University of Virginia via CISION PR Newswire. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Sands Capital Management founder and family transform Darden through a new institute for lifelong learning, unprecedented faculty support and world-class facilities in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the Washington, D.C., area. Click Here to Read More Via … [Read more...]
MBA program launches career checkpoint event for recent grads
Content written and published by IESE Business School. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Members of the MBA Class of 2016 returned to the Barcelona campus recently for the inaugural Career Checkpoint event for alumni three years out from their graduations. The day’s program included a campus tour, career workshops and faculty lectures about the state of the global economy … [Read more...]