Written by: John Byrne Published by: Poets&Quants MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Beginning Oct. 1, Paul Oyer will succeed Yossi Feinberg as a senior associate dean with a portfolio that includes Stanford’s MBA and MSx Admissions, the MBA and MSx programs, as well as the school’s Career Management Center. A member of the GSB faculty for 19 years, Oyer comes to the job … [Read more...]
More Stanford MBAs Embrace Social Impact, Innovation
Content written by Marc Ethier and published by Poets&Quants. MBA News Digest Comment. None. Extracted Content: It’s not exactly a head-scratcher, but the data make it official: The number of Stanford Graduate School of Business students who are focusing on social impact and innovation courses as part of their educational experience hasn’t just grown, it has exploded. The school … [Read more...]
95 Percent of Stanford MBAs Have Taken This Leadership Course. Now You Can Too
Content written by Betsy Mikel and published by Inc. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Elite universities have started offering some of their most popular courses online to the masses. You can take Yale's wildly successful happiness course for free. (One guy took it, and says it will teach you how to be happy.) You can also take Princeston's popular cryptocurrency class, … [Read more...]
Stanford GSB Gets A New MBA Career Chief
Content written by John Byrne and published by Poets & Quan. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: A day after Stanford Graduate School of Business graduates its Class of 2019, Jamie Schein will become assistant dean and director of the school’s Career Management Center. Click Here to Read More Via Original Source … [Read more...]
Do Scholarships Make MBAs More Inclusive?
Content written by Amy Hughes and published by BusinessBecause. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: A tool to drive inclusivity or just a way for business schools to attract the best students? Business schools tell us what they’re trying to achieve by offering MBA scholarships. Click Here to Read More Via Original Source … [Read more...]
Stanford Pushes Executives to Get ‘Touchy Feely’
Content written by Kelsey Gee and published by The Wall Street Journal. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Stanford University is offering one of its most popular business-school electives to people outside its elite M.B.A. program. The prerequisite? Getting in touch with your emotions. The course’s official title is “Organizational Behavior 374: Interpersonal Dynamics,” … [Read more...]