Shell Oil President Addresses US Oil Policy and at Stern's CEO Series
With oil over $100 a barrel, the CEO Series on April 8 with John Hofmeister, President of Shell Oil Company, proved to be especially timely and of interest to Stern students and alumni who packed Schimmel Auditorium to hear Mr. Hofmeister speak...
KKR Co-founder address opportunities in USA downturn at Stanford GSB
The economy is stumbling but George Roberts, cofounder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co., says don't overlook opportunities in investments that others have fled...
INSEAD hosts second annual Leadership Summit
INSEAD, the Business School for the World, hosted its second annual Leadership Summit on Friday 11 April on the school's Europe campus in Fontainebleau, France. The Summit brought together more than 250 world leaders from business, government, media and academia. The theme of the Summit was 'Global citizenship: a cornerstone for leaders' and explored the links between business, the environment and society and how leaders can fulfil their organisational objectives, and satisfy shareholders, while making a positive impact on society...
Sleepless in Seattle with the Dalai Lama
I found myself addressing concerns of future MBA candidates and conversations turned to HH Dalai Lama and his speech on Sunday that Tibet cannot make any more concessions to China and renewed his calls for the government to cease suppression in his former homeland and withdraw troops...
Measuring media slant - how market forces shape the content we read
With the US primaries drawing to a climax this week, it is hard to find anyone on either side of the Atlantic who does not have an opinion about how the media shape the news that they report. Yet measuring this
Europe launches Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education
The European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR)will be officially launched in Brussels today in a move designed to improve the quality of European higher education and to promote greater student mobility. The new register is a landmark for European cooperation in quality assurance of higher education in the context of the Bologna Process reforms.
ESC Lille unveils its modular MBA
The leading French business institution Lille School of Management (ESC Lille) has introduced a new version of its MBA. The revamped programme, effective from March 2008, is delivered in English at the school’s Paris campus by a team of international teaching experts...
European Schools Forecast Bright Future
Accounts coming in from across European campuses state that more students than ever before are submitting applications, including candidates from the Americas and Asia. Business schools tend to do well in stagnant or rocky economic times; applicants feel that they have nothing to loose and everything to gain...
Flying the Flags: Asia is Centre Stage
The economic growth and continued expansion span the headlines of Western dailies on a regular basis. Whether the issues are spots for investment, mutual funds, outsourcing, manufacturing or growing luxury brands to the new grasping middle classes, Asia is on everyone's lips. Examining the case studies at any number of European business schools and you will find a growing body of research and teaching tools focused on China, India, Singapore, Vietnam, and even still Japan. In the past, the flow of business knowledge tended to be one way. Look at the dozens of partnerships, consortium, and alliances. However, a re-evaluation demonstrates a flow of traffic in both directions. Talent is the bridge of exchange...
Corporate Social Responsibility from Risk Management to Value Creation
Globalisation is confronting businesses with new risks and new challenges. Corporate scandals, culture differences and the growing interest in environmental issues are putting pressure on organisations to adopt a responsible role in society and conduct business in a sustainable way...
Thunderbird Names Craig and Barbara Barrett to Head Strategic Campaign
Thunderbird School of Global Management has named Craig and Barbara Barrett to chair Campaign Thunderbird, a $65 million dollar capital campaign for students, faculty, classrooms and research at the world’s leading school of global management...
The Winning Quotient
It's the most wonderful time of the year - or at least it can be for retailers. While visions of profits dance in their heads, those in the retail industry know the holiday season can make, or break, their business...
Wozniak Reflects on Founding Apple Computer
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Passion differentiates people who successfully develop new companies, says Steve Wozniak who cofounded Apple Computer in 1976 and went on to revolutionize the computer industry...
UNC Kenan-Flagler Launches Language Program for International MBA Students
A unique communication program gives a competitive advantage to international students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who want to launch their post-MBA careers in the United States...
NYU Stern Launches Campus Greening Initiative
NYU Stern has officially "gone green," with the creation of a cross-functional task force, the Stern Campus Greening Initiative (SCGI), which will work to devise and implement sustainability initiatives throughout the School at both the graduate and undergraduate levels...
Yale Curriculum: The Customer
Common sense dictates that to be successful, a company needs customers. The difficult part is figuring out how to attract and then hold onto them. Even for a company with a great product, an organization must be created around it that understands customer behavior and can integrate this knowledge throughout all levels so that it can adapt to changes in customer needs better than its competitors...
Wharton School Announces 2008 Global Alumni Forum Locations in Lima, Ho Chi Minh City and Cape Town
The Wharton School’s Global Alumni Forums are held each year in different locations around the world identified as centers of economic importance and business growth. The forums are a valuable networking tool for alumni, and serve as a platform for the discussion of relevant topics in business. The Global Alumni Forums’ robust program of keynote speakers and panel discussions annually draws thousands of alumni from across the globe. All alumni are welcome at any or all of the three forums...
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Executive MBA Programme (EMBA) was the first of its kind in Hong Kong when initially offered by the Faculty of Business Administration in 1993...
GSB Names Norman R. Bobins ('67) Endowed Professorship
Norman R. Bobins, who retired as chairman of LaSalle Bank Corp. on December 31, 2007, has been honored with an endowed professorship in his name at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Bobins received his MBA from the school in 1967...
In assessing an employee, effective leaders look at the bigger picture
Assessment systems and performance measurements used by organizations aim to encourage employees to improve their performance. These systems and measurements also purport to look at all employees in an equal fashion. But is this really so?
MBA Biz Recycline Wins Forbes.com’s “Boost Your Business” Contest
Forbes.com and HP announce that Recycline, an eco-friendly consumer-products company based in Waltham, MA, is the grand prize winner of the “Boost Your Business” contest...
The Evian Group Tackles Complex Trade Agreements in Lausanne Meeting
The Evian Group at IMD, a think tank based on a coalition of top global stakeholders who promote a strong multilateral and liberal order with fair rules, urged for clarity and transparency in regard to the highly complex European trade negotiations with African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, known as Economic Partnership Agreements...
Professor Details How Companies Can Groom "Inside Outsiders" as Future CEOs
With rising CEO turnover, companies are increasingly looking outside for top talent. While externally recruited candidates bring fresh perspectives, they lack the in-depth knowledge of the company's history and culture that is necessary for success...
Global CFO Survey: Executive optimism at record low, capital spending to slow
Optimism among chief financial officers about the U.S. economy plunged to a record low this quarter, driven by growing concern about weak consumer demand, high fuel costs, rising labor costs and credit markets. This pessimism will slow growth in earnings, capital spending, and hiring...
INSEAD announces the creation of the INSEAD African Faculty Fellowship
fontainebleau france and singapore november – insead has created the insead african faculty fellowship which aims to assist in the capacity building of african business schools as well as bring about greater exposure of african business issues...
Impact of Globalisation on MBA applicants
In today's business environment, particularly in the United States but also in other developed countries, the MBA is now seen as a minimum requirement for anyone intent on senior managerial positions and business leadership...
Meeting the needs of Industry
It is rare today to see a business school not try to meet the needs of industry. Recruiters look for graduates to have certain skill sets and thus target institutions best geared to meet the requirements of the firm. Another aim of business schools is...
Keeping Managers, Stretching Performance
Part of corporate culture is to reward managers with training programmes and then promotions. It is seen as part and parcel of the management toolkit. Developmental needs should be forecasted and evaluated as part of every employee's evolution...
New Interactive Website Offers Balanced View of Industrial Environmental Performance
Joint effort by professors at Fuqua, Harvard, and Tuck Business Schools and students at Dartmouth College offers tool for locating industrial pollution and environmental protection activities of over 20,000 facilities across the US...
Fifty Secrets from the Science of Persuasion
new book secrets of persuasion revealed by chicago gsb’s noah goldstein you’d love your customer to make that order so you can leave work early and wouldn’t it be great if you could get the kids to eat their peas your spouse to do the washing...
Monbiot on Management and Climate Research
Bettina Wittneben, Assistant Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management, interviewed author and journalist George Monbiot on research gaps in management pertaining to climate research and university education in climate change policy...
21st Century Challenges Facing Entrepreneurs
MADRID, November 28, 2007.- IE Business School and the Fundación Eduardo Barreiros joined forces to run a debate workshop on “Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century: New Challenges”, designed to promote business start-ups as an engine for wealth, social well-being and job creation. The event was attended by senior directors of leading firms who debated new challenges facing entrepreneurs in this century...
University of Mississippi signs DBA partnership with Grenoble
The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss and Grenoble School of Management have formed a partnership for business education with the first Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) degree for executives...
Spend a sparkling summer in Reims
Reims Management School unveils new course on creating value in the champagne business. November 2007. Business education leader Reims Management School (RMS) recently announced the creation of a new intensive summer programme for 2008 (taught entirely in English) focusing on business strategies for the Champagne and wine industries. The course, entitled Creating Value in the Champagne Business, will be held over a two week period (June 30 - July 11, 2008) at the Reims campus and is open to anyone...
Welcoming the Gourlay Visiting Professor of Ethics in Business
Leading benefactors of MBS and Trinity College welcomed the second Gourlay Visiting Professor of Ethics in Business to Melbourne.Professor Laura Hartman from DePaul University's Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, USA, addressed members of the MBS Dean’s Circle – alumni, faculty and students who are recognised by the School as leaders in philanthropy – at her official welcome event hosted by Trinity College, the University of Melbourne...
Pernod Ricard establishes a Chair of "Management of prestigious brands" at HEC School of Management
Patrick Ricard, Chairman and CEO of Pernod Ricard and Bernard Ramanantsoa, Dean of HEC have signed a partnership agreement to create a Chair of "Management of prestigious brands"...
Tuck professors named to top 50 management thinkers list
HANOVER, N.H.—Tuck professors Vijay Govindarajan and Richard D'Aveni have been named to the 2007 Thinkers 50, a biennial ranking of the world's most influential living management thinkers...
Autonomy and accountability move to top of European higher
A conference bringing together nearly 300 higher education leaders from across Europe has highlighted the extent to which the issues of university autonomy and accountability are moving to the top of the European higher education agenda. During the three-day European University...
Bocconi Uses SIM Games
Italy's leader in economics and management education, Bocconi is fuelling a marketing trend in the development and use of simulation (
HBS breaks 20-year trend
Right now, if you set your calendar you can catch many of the leading business schools on tour throughout Europe and North America. The World MBA Tour is the leading organisation holding these events; however many schools hold private forums at designated sites within companies where their alumni set up the meeting and provide the facilities. Jasper Lloyd-Lovat recently attended a Harvard Business School...
Interview: George Mycroft interviews WCW founder, Andrew Scharf
This afternoon, I am fortunate to have in front me Andrew Scharf. He is quite possibly one of the best MBA admissions consultants today, having introduced the techniques of management consulting into the MBA application process, thus single-handedly given many potential candidates a chance...
The MBA Bloggers-sphere speaks to potential MBA students
When choosing an MBA programme many potential business school applicants go online check the MBA rankings, consult guides on the best MBA, examine MBA courses and are still flummoxed. They find it is hard to cut through the dross of gibberish and find...
Attracting and Retaining Talent - Europe's Challenge
Europe must do more to attract and retain best young researchers: EUA report highlights challenges for doctoral education in Europe....
Bradford Steps Up
When people consider doing an MBA, the Bradford University School of Management is often overlooked. When examining the performance of this institution and the results it has been delivering, this MBA is worthy of serious consideration. Last year, Bradford took in 156 people for its FT MBA, which is...
ESSEC Business School features in international rankings
ESSEC Business School is highly placed in two of the major international rankings published today. The Specialized Master’s in Strategy and Management of International Business comes out in ...
Younger Students Back in Vogue
The Europeans have answered this market call by expanding and promoting their Masters in Management programmes, which to many corporate recruiters makes sense. Not content to see the Europeans capture all the glory...
CEMS maintains top position in 2007
CEMS maintains top position in 2007 Financial Times ranking of international masters, unveils plans to globalise flagship degree programme...
Reims Management School Goes Bubbly
From time to time we would hear George Mycroft, director of marketing at Whitefield Consulting worldwide chortle, "Champagne is big business", as he sipped his Pol Roger vintage over looking...
Interview: Judith Bouvard, dean of Genoble GSB speaks out
In a recent interview with Whitefield Consulting Worldwide, Judith Bouvard, the dean of Grenoble Graduate School of Business (GGSB), addresses core changes and development in business education at the school. The new strategy is to bring Grenoble GSB to the heart of European and international affairs...
HEC & Concordia Exec Ed takes to the skies
HEC Executive Education is launching a new English language program in partnership with the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, Montreal: the Executive MBA "Major in Aviation". This program is targeted towards managers of the European aeronautics industry...
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