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Survey courses in "Western Civilization," once a common component of undergraduate curricula, have almost disappeared as a requirement at many large private research universities and public flagships, according to a study by the National Association of Scholars. The report finds that, since 1968, the number of the selected
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February 2011: dozens of MBA applicants at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business are found to have submitted plagiarized essays. February 2012: a dozen MBA applicants at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management are found to have submitted plagiarized essays. via Orange Crate Art.
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Public support should be shifted from protecting large established corporations to encouraging the growth of newer enterprises. And startups should be discouraged from rushing into the embrace of the stock market’s short-sighted analysts and many an established corporation should be encouraged to escape that embrace. At the same
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via The Management Myth What they don’t seem to teach you in business school is that “the five forces” and “the seven Cs” and every other generic framework for problem solving are heuristics: they can lead you to solutions, but they cannot make you think. Case studies may provide
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A debate at NYTimes.com Regarding MBA degrees in particular, see this, that, and the other thing.
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An oldie but a goodie. An investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The banker complimented the fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how
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and IESE's position worldwide: #12 Executive Education programs - Open enrollment, Business Week #12 Executive Education programs - Customized curriculum, Business Week #16 Executive MBA programs, Financial Times #17 Executive MBA programs, Business Week
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In spite of recent concerns in the business school world that MBA degrees do not teach students skills that companies need, recruiters are increasingly giving the professional services firms a run for their money when it comes to recruiting newly minted MBAs directly from business school. These days companies such
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I describe the MBA in the book as a degree from 1908 with a 1950s strategy. Because the degree was created in 1908 and business schools have had no new degree since 1908 and the strategy was set up based on a couple of reports in the 1950s which made