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...]
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...]
Analytics at Wharton Announces First-ever Roster of Funding Recipients
Written by: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Published by: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Analytics at Wharton has selected eight projects as inaugural recipients of the newly created Data Science and Business Analytics Fund. The projects, chosen from 23 proposals submitted from around Wharton, will focus on … [Read more...]
A degree decline is on the horizon. How universities can respond before it’s too late.
Written by: Richard Price Published by: Clayton Christensen Institute MBA News Digest Comment: What happens to future graduate enrollments when undergraduate programs shrink? Extracted Content: The bachelor’s degree has long been accepted as a signal of specialized skills and suitability for positions with more responsibilities or higher cognitive demands. But as the job market reconsiders … [Read more...]
Colleges and retailers share a bloated past and a slimmed-down future
Written by: Michael Horn Published by: Clayton Christensen Institute MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Many campus leaders, unfortunately, don’t appear to have received the message that building more facilities is increasingly unsustainable as the fundamental business model underlying significant swaths of higher education breaks and the US approaches a demographic cliff in … [Read more...]
Importance of MBA to manage Africa’s economy
Written by: IOL Network Reporter Published by: IOL MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Africa only has 300 000 managers of 1 million needed to effectively run the continent’s economy which has a gross domestic product of more than R40 trillion, according to Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Bulelani Magwanishe. Paresh Soni, associate director of research at Mancosa’s … [Read more...]