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By WARREN ALLEN A British journalist's Harvard Business School memoir that hits bookstores today depicts President Bush's alma mater as a place that hosts pimp parties featuring a "booze luge" and concludes that it's "a factory for unhappy people," but Harvard doesn't seem to mind. Jim Aisner, director of media relations for Harvard Business School, said the school was generally proud of the positive experience that author Philip Delves Broughton had gotten. Aisner was miffed, however, that...
By Erica Perez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Jul. 31--MADISON -- Graduate students attending the Wisconsin School of Business this fall will find the digs decidedly roomier, with more space for career specializations. Construction of the $40.5 million addition to Grainger Hall is nearly complete, with finishing touches scheduled to happen by the time students start arriving in mid-August. The new wing is part of what the University of Wisconsin-Madison says is the biggest building boom on...
By Susan Simpson, The Oklahoman Jul. 25--An Oklahoma City man hopes to use a recently won doctoral scholarship to someday boost the number of American Indians teaching in Oklahoma business colleges. "I do feel responsible for making sure that Native Americans have the same opportunities and are encouraged to go into academic fields," said Beau Barnes, who received a KPMG Foundation scholarship valued at $10,000 a year for up to five years. The national scholarship is designed to help...
By Subashini Selvaratnam THE Bachelor of Business programme jointly offered by HELP International College of Technology and Edith Cowan University, Perth Australia aims to equip graduates with the attributes that employers seek, writes SUBASHINI SELVARATNAM. Jeremy Tan Jook Hoor dreams of having an Australian degree. But he can only afford an Australian programme which he can complete locally. When Tan heard about the 3+0 Bachelor of Business programme offered at HELP International College...
By David Whinyates The Master in Business Administration (MBA) degree is internationally recognised and seen as a passport to a successful management career. The MBA is essentially a generalist qualification, designed to widen the horizons of business professionals. It takes into account all the major functions of a business, including production and marketing of goods and services, finance procedures, the economic and legal environment and the social framework. Other aspects are...
Harvard Business School (HBS) Dean Jay O. Light and William C. Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard and Chairman of the Harvard China Fund, announced yesterday the opening of a Harvard office in Shanghai. The office will serve both HBS and the Harvard China Fund under the auspices of the Office of the Harvard University Provost. The University plans to open another office in Beijing this autumn. Both locations...
Harvard Business School (HBS) will host 79 college students in a one-week management training program designed to increase diversity and opportunity in business education. For 25 years, the Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) has provided rising college seniors with a unique educational experience that helps them develop a broad understanding of today's business environment, and encourages them to consider business school as an option after graduation. The program will be held on...
Saturday, February 9, 2008, marked a significant milestone in the history of Florida International University's College of Business Administration as it celebrated the opening of its new business building complex at University Park with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house. "We now have a beautiful, state-of-the-art business building complex that can serve as a home not only for our current students, faculty, and staff, but also for our 25,000+ alumni and friends throughout South...
Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP) today announced the release of the Universal Rental Car Pricing Simulation, the first in a line of new Online Simulations to be introduced over the next year. Created in response to customer requests for web-based games on core business concepts, the simulation is the latest addition to HBSP's extensive catalog of experiential learning materials. Delivered entirely online, the simulation is designed to be engaging and user-friendly....
By Boyd, Carolyn CAN AN MBA INFLATE SALARIES OR FASTTRACK A CAREER? MUCH DEPENDS ON THE SCHOOL CHOSEN, AND OF COURSE, ON THE INDIVIDUAL STUDENT Before Maggie Leung CPA studied for a master of business administration (MBA) she was "very trapped in one way" of seeing things. The 34-year-old says doing an MBA helped broaden her perspective. "All I thought about was purely accounting," Leung recalls of her pre-MBA days. "I never thought of other areas that relate to the business like marketing...
