Written by: Bowie State University Published by: Bowie State University MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Bowie State University has named a new College of Business dean, with a proven record of improving student success, enrollment and retention in business programs. He will assume his role on Dec. 16, 2019. Dr. Lawrence McNeil will serve as the college’s chief … [Read more...]
New Jindal School Hires Bring Expertise in Business, Research
Written by: University of Texas at Dallas Published by: University of Texas at Dallas MBA News Digest Comment: Article of this type are infrequent but the new faculty need an introduction and this is a great way to do it, pictures and all. Extracted Content: An associate professor and five assistant professors, all either tenured or on the tenure-track, are among the 16 new faculty members … [Read more...]
What Good Is an MBA Anymore, Anyway?
Written by: Shelly Hagan Published by: Bloomberg Businessweek MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Bloomberg Businessweek spoke with deans at five U.S. business schools of varying sizes and rankings in our annual survey. They gave us their elevator pitch on why it’s still important to get an MBA, and why prospective students should attend their schools to get one. Click Here … [Read more...]
American business schools are reinventing the MBA
Written by: The Economist Published by: The Economist MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: On a visit to New York in October Marc Benioff, boss of Salesforce, compared Facebook to cigarettes and backed a corporate tax hike to deal with homelessness in San Francisco. If badmouthing a fellow technology giant and cheering the taxman were not heterodox enough for a billionaire … [Read more...]
Demand among young Russians to study abroad rising
Written by: Eugene Vorotnikov Published by: University World News MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: The demand among young Russians for study places in foreign universities is steadily growing despite the improvement in the quality of the Russian system of higher education and its improving image in the international arena, according to recent statements from leading Russian … [Read more...]
Flexible Future
Written by: Peter Lorange Published by: Global Focus, The EFMD Business Magazine MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Peter Lorange says that introducing greater flexibility and agility into executive education and allowing experts, instructors, contributors, professors and students to simultaneously and easily learn from each other are essential ingredients in building a … [Read more...]