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business school stories: 11 news summaries

Business Grads Promise a More Ethical Future

MBA Class of '09 pledges to remember that greed isn't good

May 30, 09 6:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - The next generation of business school grads may change the face of finance for the better, the New York Times reports. MBA programs across the country are seeing an explosion of interest in ethics courses, and at Harvard Business School a full 20% of this year's grads have signed a... More »

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ethics • business • business school • MBA • universities

ANALYSIS

MBA Programs Face Their Role in Financial Crisis


Mar 17, 09 3:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Executives have taken a lot of blame for the financial crisis, whether for focusing on short-term gains in stock price or placing too much faith in ultra-complex financial instruments, writes Bradford Plumer for the New Republic. But what about the business schools that taught them to manage that way in... More »

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recession • business school • mortgage backed securities • MBA Programs • financial institutions • Indiana University • financial crisis • credit default swap

GLOSSIES

Economic Crisis Wallops Business Grads

Current students jockey for fewer jobs; programs see surge in applications

Nov 16, 08 5:37 AM CST
(Newser) - With the financial world in free-fall, recent business-school graduates are finding fewer jobs and fierce competition for the ones that remain, Business Week reports. “A lot of the factors affecting my future employment are out of my hands,” said one MBA student preparing to hunt for a job... More »

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business school • risk management • consulting • college graduates • financial crisis

Univ. of Chicago Biz School Banks $300M

Low-profile fund manager Booth makes historic donation

Nov 7, 08 5:46 AM CST
(Newser) - An alumnus of the University of Chicago who made a fortune from principles he learned at its graduate business school has donated a no-strings-attached $300 million to the school, reports the Chicago Tribune. The donation, by Dimensional Fund Advisors founder David G. Booth, is the largest ever to a business... More »

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philanthropy • University of Chicago • business school • Booth School of Business • Chicago Booth • Edward Snyder • Eugene Fama • Booth Family Trust

 B-Schools Use
 Palm Scans
 to Catch Cheats 

ID confirmation targets impostors taking admissions exam

Jul 22, 08 1:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - In an effort to foil cheaters, top American business schools will require a high-tech identity check of applicants taking the standardized admissions test, reports the Wall Street Journal. The crackdown on the use of paid impostors will require GMAT takers to undergo a "palm vein" scan, which is unique... More »

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fingerprinting • business school • cheating • GMAT • testing

 Yoga Turning 
 B-Schoolers 
 on Their Heads 

Capitalists latch on to search for inner peace

Jul 20, 08 7:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Inner peace through capitalism? Americans spend $5.7 billion a year on yoga classes and products, and now, BusinessWeek reports, yoga clubs are cropping up in some of the country's most high-pressured institutions: top business schools. "Having a yoga practice helped sort through the white noise," one MIT... More »

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MIT • business • University of Chicago • stress • business school • capitalism • Harvard • yoga • BusinessWeek • Northwestern University

Best Undergrad Biz Schools

Wharton keeps the top spot for undergraduate business education

Mar 1, 08 6:10 PM CST
(Newser) - The financial world may be on its ear, but undergraduate business schools are booming as increasing numbers of quality high school grads drive up standards and B-school grads command more on the employment market. Here are the 10 best, as ranked by Business Week:
  1. Pennsylvania (Wharton): Can be too
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MIT • University of Texas • UC Berkeley • business school • Notre Dame • NYU • Emory University • University of Virginia • University of Michigan • Indiana University • Wharton School of Business • Ross School of Business • BYU

For Sale: My Seat in Class

Wharton's auction system among solutions to overenrollment in popular courses

Feb 15, 08 4:53 PM CST
(Newser) - It beats sleeping overnight outside a professor's office—as some do at Stanford—but should students buy their way into popular classes? The University of Chicago thought not, removing one student's ad hawking a slot in Freakonomics author Steven Levitt's course. Penn's Wharton School has a more capitalistic view, the... More »

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online auction • college • business school • University of Pennsylvania • professor • Wharton School of Business • Justin Wolfers • Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics • college student

Recruiters
Pick Top 10
Biz Schools

WSJ's annual rankings come up with some surprising choices

Sep 18, 07 8:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ivy Leaguers and Mormons round out this year's eclectic list of top MBA programs.  To come up with the rankings WSJ and Harris Interactive asked 4,430 recruiters to rank M.B.A. programs on 21 attributes, including leadership potential, and communication skills.  National Rankings:
  1. Dartmouth College
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education • Columbia University • list • UC Berkeley • school • business school • Wake Forest University • Dartmouth • Recruiters • Brigham Young University • Ohio State University • MBA • Indiana University

Top 10 US Business Schools

Step it up a notch (and raise your profile) at these elite centers of learning.

Aug 19, 07 5:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Forbes ranked these business schools not only on their prestige but for their return on investment.
  1. Dartmouth (Tuck)
  2. Stanford
  3. Harvard
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Columbia University • Yale University • college rankings • Stanford University • University of Chicago • list • business school • Dartmouth • University of Virginia • Harvard • Northwestern University

Accounting Degrees
Add Up

Number-crunchers are BMOCs
with companies desperate to fill slots

Jul 6, 07 5:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Accounting majors have become the most in-demand kids on campus, and prospective employers are wooing them with lavish parties, free vacations, and promises of handsome signing bonuses. Colleges aren't turning out enough number-crunchers to meet the growing demand, which has skyrocketed in the wake of stricter controls required by Sarbanes-Oxley,... More »

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CPA • Sarbanes Oxley • recruitment • accountants • business school • accounting

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