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Interview with Dean of IE Business School - Part 2
Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño is the Dean of IE Business School. Portrayed by the Financial Times as ‘one of the most significant figures in promoting European business schools internationally’, Iñiguez is an expert in management education. He is also a regular speaker at international conferences and... [more]
Beating the recession the Volvo way
It's the dilemma that haunts every manager at the moment: how do you maintain the values of CSR and those of your organisation when you are under enormous pressure to cut costs and reduce payroll. [more]
Businesses use strategy to think their way out of recession
Strategy is the long-term direction of a business and during a recession this can be skewed by short-termism and a negative outlook. So say Professor Gerry Johnson and Professor David Pettifer from the Lancaster Centre for Strategic Management, Lancaster University Management School. [more]
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Using your MBA to change careers?
Hang on in there, it should still happen, even in a downturn. [more]
Americans look overseas for global MBA courses and diversity
Americans are leaving the US to study MBA programs at top business schools overseas in greater numbers than ever before, according to research by QS, the world’s leading MBA career and education specialists. [more]
Talent shuffle impacts positively in non-profit, NGO and government positions
The so-called ‘talent shuffle’ for MBA graduates, created by considerable recruiting caution in the finance and consultancy worlds due to the credit crunch, has seen an increase in applications by MBAs to positions considered unfashionable in the past. Is this purely as the result of the recession... [more]
Get up on the downstroke
What's it like graduating into a recession, as the class of 2009, and possibly 2010 will? The last downturn in employment prospects for MBAs occurred as the effects of the dot-com crash were exacerbated by the events of September 11th 2001. [more]
The MBA and the recession – frequently asked questions
Ross Geraghty, managing editor of the TopMBA Career Guide, answers the pertinent questions put to him in February 2009. [more]
Teamwork – strengthening the chain
There are numerous idioms in English that refer to the importance of teamwork: ‘A chain is only as strong as its weakest link’ - the phrase that spawned an international TV quiz sensation. How about ‘a whole is the sum of its parts,’ and another famous one: ‘there is no I in team’.
Yet teamwork... [more]
A new approach to MBA education: The Lauder Institute at Wharton
This is part two of an interview with Professor Mauro Guillen, Director of the Lauder Institute at the Wharton School, one of the world’s top MBA schools. [more]
Leading Wharton Professor Mauro Guillen on repairing the damage done by the recession
Director of the Lauder Institute at The Wharton School. Interview by Nunzio Quacquarelli [more]
Soft skills – time to toughen up
In business schools across the globe, core features of the course, which provide skills highly valued by employers, will invariably include strategy, marketing, finance and leadership. While nobody disputes that those core elements will remain central pillars of the business school education... [more]
Trends in the MBA industry
Ross Geraghty, managing editor of the QS TopMBA Career Guide and topmba.com, talks to Carriere magazine in Romania about top business schools, MBA programs and trends in the business school world. This is part two of a two part interview that took place in September 2008. [more]
MBAs are the highest paid postgraduates around the world
There is a growing salary differential between MBAs and non-MBAs in job markets around the world as employers battle to recruit the best young business school talent. Nunzio Quacquarelli, editor of topmba.com, looks at the latest reported salary data. [more]
John Davies profile
“If you can survive your MBA course, you can survive anything.” John Davies says he totally immersed himself in his course at Cass Business School in London and relished the opportunity the exercise his brain to its maximum potential. “By the end of the course you crave information as you have... [more]
