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...]
Stanford Ups Ante On Experiential Learning For MBAs
Written by: John Byrne Published by: Poets&Quants MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Stanford’s Graduate School of Business today (Oct. 30) upped the ante on experiential learning in its MBA program by adding three new ‘action learning’ courses that will debut this academic year. The classes are the first of what is expected to be a series of 10-week-long electives that … [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...]
MBA Students Bond in Multicultural Experience in Ensenada, Mexico
Written by: Allison Howitt Published by: University of San Diego School of Business MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: The Ahlers Center for International Business at the University of San Diego School of Business is dedicated to not only providing robust international activities for our students, faculty, administrators, and the greater community at large, but we also pride … [Read more...]
UVA Darden Dramatically Expands Global Options for Executive MBA Students
Written by: Dave Hendrick Published by: Newswise MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: The University of Virginia Darden School of Business is making multiple enhancements to its Executive MBA program. Beginning with the Class of 2022 — the Class for which the School is currently accepting applications — the executive formats of the Darden MBA will offer more global … [Read more...]