Written by: NANA SHIBATA Published by: NIKKEI Asian Review MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Tokyo's Shizenkan University, a graduate school, is opening a Center for Sustainability and Innovation after August this year. The business-focused college will offer two courses targeting executives in the private and public sectors. One of the courses is aimed at teaching … [Read more...]
The Real Threat to Business Schools from Artificial Intelligence
Written by: Anne Trumbore Published by: Knowledge@Wharton MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Artificial intelligence (AI) will change the way we learn and work in the near future. Nearly 400 million workers globally will change their occupations in the next 10 years, and business schools are uniquely situated to respond to the shifts coming to the future of work. However, a … [Read more...]
Penn State adds new areas of study to its top-10-ranked online MBA
Written by: Penn State Published by: Penn State News MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Penn State has expanded its highly ranked online MBA program to include six new areas of study, a move aimed at giving today’s business professionals a chance to shape their graduate education to their career goals and diversify their skill sets. Students in the Penn State Online MBA can … [Read more...]
EFFECTIVE ETHICS TRAINING
Written by: Daniel Butcher Published by: Strategic Finance MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Ethics is one of the most—if not the most—important topics for accounting and finance students to learn. Professors must emphasize this topic and continue to stress it. Everyone acknowledges that ethics education is a vital part of the curriculum for students, but graduation … [Read more...]
Teaching sustainability: how MBAs are combining mainstream with green-stream
Written by: Jonathan Moules Published by: Financial Times MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Responsible and ethical leadership is a critical issue for MBA students, according to Tomorrow’s MBA, an annual survey by education market research consultancy CarringtonCrisp. In its latest study, of 600 prospective business school students, 70 per cent named ethical leadership as … [Read more...]
Wharton Launches Online Course on Artificial Intelligence for Business
Written by: The Wharton School Published by: The Wharton School MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Artificial intelligence (AI) is embedded in nearly every aspect of daily life, from entertainment (e.g. Netflix) to navigation (e.g. Waze) to dating (e.g. Match.com). To address the risks, opportunities and challenges of implementing artificial intelligence into business … [Read more...]