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EMLYON MBA To Boost Chinese Companies in Africa
Hu Ziheng says there's scope for Chinese firms to grow sustainably in Africa, something he's...
posted on: 20 May 2012
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Microsoft Manager Quits New York City For Cranfield MBA!
Margaret Sherer was attracted to Cranfield's Crisis Simulation Exercise, and she wasn't...
posted on: 13 May 2012
US Army Captain Turns London Finance Exec With Help From The Chicago Booth MBA
Wyatt Cavalier graduated in 2009, a tough year for jobs, but Booth's alumni connections and his...
posted on: 30 April 2012
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Two Years On, Top Female Management Consultants Return To SAIF To Share Their Wisdom
SAIF Class of 2009 graduates Zhu Shu and Yang Yan work for Bain Capital and LEK Consulting...
posted on: 30 April 2012
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Cranfield visits Berlin for MBA CSC European Conference
Hot topics and industry standards discussed as business schools unite for this exciting MBA event...
posted on: 30 April 2012
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Nigerian Web Coder Heads To Edith Cowan MBA In Bangalore To Boost His IT Management Expertise
Web development started out as a hobby for Samuel Okonkwo, but soon he was making money from it!
posted on: 30 April 2012
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CUHK MBA Helps Expat Lise Fraissinet Become Hong Kong Insider
Lise Fraissinet went to Hong Kong to explore opportunities and ended up working in the...
posted on: 29 April 2012
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Warwick Business School Announces £2m Of Scholarships For Students Entering MBA and Masters Programmes This Year!
The Warwick First Scholarship worth up to £13,750 and the Dean’s Scholarship worth up to...
posted on: 29 April 2012
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Why MBA: Duke - Fuqua School of Business, Full-Time MBA
Couple Laura Newman and Alexander van Dijk did their first degrees at Duke and have now both...
posted on: 25 April 2012
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MIP MBA Opens Doors to Top Banks Including Goldman Sachs
Pietro Marini is responsible for Global Liquidity Sales for Goldman Sachs Asset Management in...
posted on: 23 April 2012
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Aston MBA Wants to Take Local Indian Handicrafts Global
With experieince in CSR and sustainable marketing, Swati Randev-Verma is launching a...
posted on: 13 April 2012
Bath MBA Convinces Executive Search Firm To Create A Role for Him
Engineer-turned-consultant Anirban Basu convinced Granger Reis to let him do his MBA project at...
posted on: 10 April 2012
Lancaster MBA Discusses IT’s Potential in Indian Social Development
The Indian government can take a more systematic approach to delivering robust social change in...
posted on: 10 April 2012
Meet The Team: Joel McConnell, IE Business School
With a financial services background and an MBA himself, Joel is well placed to help applicants...
posted on: 2 April 2012
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Forex Trader Quits Wall Street To Found Dotcom Start-up With Help From The INSEAD MBA
Ranjan Roy enjoyed life-changing classes and a responsive alumni network
posted on: 31 March 2012
Harvard MBA Talks About Online Financial Services And Daytime Parties!
Meet the marketing brain behind fast-growing financial services brand, Media Ingenuity
posted on: 30 March 2012
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Edith Cowan University MBA Is Hot Spot for Asia-Pacific
If I had to do my MBA again, Edith Cowan would be my first choice says Vietnamese grad Minh Pham
posted on: 21 March 2012
Taipei Girl Wants Asia To Go Green
Exeter One Planet MBA Karen Huang says sustainability must go mainstream if Asia is to keep growing
posted on: 20 March 2012
Business Plan Competitions Take Nanyang MBA To Bangkok and Las Vegas
Akhil Mehta can’t resist entering tough business school challenges that take him all around the...
posted on: 20 March 2012
Sudanese Vet's Local Project Turned Into A Major CSR Initiative For Oil Firm
Lancaster MBA Husameldin Elnasri proposed a CSR model that led to over US$45 million being pumped...
posted on: 19 March 2012
A Day In The Life Of Albert, Chicago Booth MBA
Follow An MBA Day From Morning Coffee To Evening Burger!
posted on: 16 March 2012
South African Entrepreneur Swaps Glamorous Corporate Events For ESMT MBA!
Luisa Maier had set up five firms by the age of 24 in the high octane events sector, but she...
posted on: 15 March 2012
From MBA Intern to Real Estate Manager
Bath School of Management Careers Office helped Dominik Adamus find the internship, that led to a...
posted on: 12 March 2012
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Ex-US President's 'Grand Nephew' talks of his MBA experience at CEIBS
Here in China (the fact that I am a Nixon) is definitely, at all times, at the back of people’s...
posted on: 12 March 2012
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MBA Club: INVEDOR, INSEAD Social Impact
INDEVOR attracts members who are concerned with social development and entrepreneurship; and want...
posted on: 8 March 2012
Asian Luxury Market Boom Entices Top MBAs
The dual MBA degree from CUHK and HEC Paris was a strategic choice for US-born Susanna Tang
posted on: 6 March 2012
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Meet The ESMT Class Of 2012 In Booming Berlin!
Just two months into their MBA, Gizem and Javier are excited about what they’re learning and...
posted on: 5 March 2012
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Imperial MBA Helps Ex-Russian Academic Become A Consultant
Literature professor-turned-export manager Yulia Emelyanova wants to set a great example for her...
posted on: 29 February 2012
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70% MBA Applicants Say They Would Pay Higher Fees To Get Closer To Industry
MBA Applicants Want Business Schools To Connect Them To Industry And Jobs
posted on: 29 February 2012
Predict The Future By Observing The Past, Says Game Theorist
Professor Patrick McNutt, Visiting Fellow at Manchester Business School, says we can observe...
posted on: 28 February 2012
Wall Street Sales Exec Meets The World In Grenoble
Nina Fattahi quickly realised her New Yorker style of getting things done wouldn't work in France!
posted on: 28 February 2012
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Inside The Impressive Berlin Campus Of ESMT
A selection of photos from our recent visit to ESMT's Berlin campus!
posted on: 27 February 2012
SDA Bocconi MBA Boosts Career In Entertainment Industry
Andi Caruso has acted in indie movies and run a Canadian rodeo festival. Now she's eyeing a...
posted on: 27 February 2012
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Inside View: Rocket-Internet
Meet the Berlin investors who have a formula for launching internet companies at rocket speed
posted on: 24 February 2012
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HEC Paris MBA Brings Fresh Ideas To American Express
Marketing man Sandeep Krishnamani is getting his colleagues to use social media sites and...
posted on: 23 February 2012
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Aston MBA Brings West African Fruit Juice To Europe
Italian Claudio Scotto followed a girl to Sierra Leone and now he's set up the country's first...
posted on: 22 February 2012
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Chinese University Hong Kong MBA Keeping Busy And Expanding Her Networks
Indian software engineer Jasvin Bhasin is determined to make the most of all the opportunities...
posted on: 21 February 2012
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Lancaster MBA Transporting Elizabeth Taylor's Dresses!
Nicholas Miles heads transport operations for auction house Christie’s, and says the Lancaster...
posted on: 20 February 2012
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Indian Branding Specialist Develops His Own Social Network On Bath MBA
Marketing specialist Abhishek Roy was also selected by chemicals firm Castrol for a study of...
posted on: 17 February 2012
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Thought Leadership Venture ‘Project Firefly' Launched by St. Gallen MBA Grad And Faculty
University students and recent grads can have their essays reviewed anonymously by an academic...
posted on: 15 February 2012
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Two MBAs Are Better Than One Says IE Business School Grad!
Marcel Kohler used to work as a flight attendant. Now he's an M&A Manager at KPMG Switzerland
posted on: 10 February 2012
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ESMT MBA Nishant Aurora Tackles Conflict Minerals For Axel Springer
Axel Springer wanted to assess the impact of using conflict minerals on the production of...
posted on: 9 February 2012
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Infosys Analyst Turns Evangelist For Exeter One Planet MBA!
Reshmi Halder studied the green credentials of UK high street banks. The Co-operative Bank came...
posted on: 6 February 2012
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Columbian Aviation Exec Has Plans For European Airlines
Grenoble Ecole de Management MBA student Roberto Garcia says that Europe's legacy carriers need...
posted on: 4 February 2012
Great Salary Prospects Propel CUHK MBA To 28th In FT Worldwide Ranking
CUHK MBA ranked fourth in the world, top in Hong Kong, for career progression. Is this the MBA...
posted on: 30 January 2012
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Risk Expert Wants Jordanian Business To Address Sustainability
Exeter One Planet MBA student George Siryani wants to set up a risk management consulting firm in...
posted on: 30 January 2012
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Norwegian Business Student Rubs Shoulders With CEOs And Angel Investors
Divye Kapoor felt 20 years younger than most of the people at this investment forum...
posted on: 29 January 2012
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What’s A Nigerian Doing in Bangalore? Learning About The IT Business!
Samson Okulaja is on the Edith Cowan University MBA, at its partner school, the Bangalore...
posted on: 28 January 2012
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Making Life-Long Friends On The St Gallen MBA
As well as late nights, skipped meals and no time to do laundry...
posted on: 27 January 2012
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IE International MBA grad set to expand renewable energy sector
Michelle Lanspa has a plan to deploy traditional and innovative digital marketing techniques in...
posted on: 27 January 2012
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My MBA Application Journey: Part One
34 yrs old, 720 GMAT, 10 year career, 3 and a half languages - enough to get into a top b-school?
posted on: 24 January 2012
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Why MBA: INSEAD
The electronic engineer landed an incredible role at Rolls Royce right after completing his...
posted on: 24 January 2012
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The University of Bath School of Management Q+A
Biotechnologist Meenakshi Ram interned at a pharma firm in Singapore during her MBA in the UK
posted on: 21 January 2012
Telecoms High-flyer Breaks for Manchester MBA
Manchester's 18-month MBA just the right length for telecoms engineer who helped launch iPhone in...
posted on: 20 January 2012
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Marathon Runner and Lancaster MBA Now Running Her Own Business
Michelle Farber runs Farber Strategies, a London-based communications and strategy firm
posted on: 19 January 2012
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Wanderlust Afropolitan on EMLYON’s MBA
Jimmy Choos, lectures in Finland, learning French. It's all in a day's work for Kofi Boakye
posted on: 19 January 2012
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Inventor and Innovator at ESMT
Product designer Randhir holds four patents but wanted an MBA to move into managing R&D projects...
posted on: 17 January 2012
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ESMT Welcomes Largest and Most International Full-time MBA Class
The Berlin-based business school has awarded scholarships to students from Armenia, Egypt, Ghana,...
posted on: 12 January 2012
Women MBAs: The Management Consulting Industry Needs You
AT Kearney hosts a frank-talking, Women in Business brunch at LBS
posted on: 12 January 2012
What Makes MBA Applicants Tick?
Why do an MBA? How to go about researching it? How many existing MBA friends do you have? These...
posted on: 11 January 2012
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Singapore MBA To Land Asian Finance Job
German Alexander Pflock has worked for Ernst & Young and hopes to move into finance in Asia's...
posted on: 9 January 2012
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Aston MBA Provides Relief From Italian Bureaucracy
Senior manager at one of the world's biggest language schools chooses Aston to get back into UK...
posted on: 4 January 2012
How SDA Bocconi Made The World Bigger For Biomedical Engineer
Alejandra Caceres had no previous business experience but found herself learning from everyone...
posted on: 4 January 2012
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Turkish Banking And Shanghai Learning
Nancy Liu expects that demand for finance specialists will outstrip demand for strategy...
posted on: 22 December 2011
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Edith Cowan MBA With Ambitions For Canadian Government
Pubudu Edirisinghe has relocated to Canada as he believes there are far more job opportunities
posted on: 20 December 2011
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CUHK MBA Connects Singaporean Real Estate Whiz In Touch With China
Singaporean Justin Lau found the CUHK MBA provided him with an unparalleled network in the world...
posted on: 19 December 2011
MBAs Fave Vacations And Hot Trends For 2012
Hungary, Sweden, Germany... MBAs are heading where the jobs are and not, sadly, to the beach
posted on: 16 December 2011
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Manchester MBA Bringing Information To Uganda
Khalid Arbab’s eco-friendly computers are a new educational lifeline for remote Ugandan villagers
posted on: 15 December 2011
2 comments
What Do MBAs Want For Christmas?!
No more reality TV and a composting bin... surprisingly not everyone said they wanted a job.
posted on: 12 December 2011
24 comments
Engineer Looking For A Business Career Goes For EBS-MIT-Zaragoza Dual Program
Amit Godara has been studying in Germany, Spain and has an exchange planned to the United States
posted on: 9 December 2011
3 comments
How Do We Get Boards Of Directors To Think Long Term?
How can company directors do their job better? IE Business School gathers an expert panel to...
posted on: 9 December 2011
1 comment
Unpublicised Strengths Will Help Japan Recover Says MBA Yui Kamikawa
Yuichiro Kamikawa was compelled to find the next step in corporate sustainability after the...
posted on: 8 December 2011
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Bath MBA Helps Media Consultant Gain Credibility
Simon Munroe found that his MBA was not about learning facts. It was about finding models to hang...
posted on: 6 December 2011
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Top European VC On How He Made It
Michael A. Jackson is one of Europe’s best tech investors, he tells us how to get involved in VC
posted on: 2 December 2011
2 comments
HEC Master Class on 'Organisational Behaviour'
The event in Dubai will focus on effective leadership and how it affects the behaviour of an...
posted on: 30 November 2011
2 comments
Californian Sustainability Consultant On Exeter’s One Planet MBA
The One Planet MBA At Exeter is creating planet-minded business leaders
posted on: 28 November 2011
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Do entrepreneurs need an MBA?
UCD Smurfit Entrepreneurship Club grooms prospective entrepreneurs
posted on: 26 November 2011
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Steelmaker's Dream, or learning-by-doing entrepreneurship
SKOLKOVO Alumni success story: from corporate path to a pure entrepreneurship
posted on: 24 November 2011
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ESMT Attracting Top VCs To Berlin
Nitin Maholtra, creator of the ESMT Entrepreneurs Club, is luring Silicon Valley VCs to the...
posted on: 24 November 2011
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Taking A ‘Career Change MBA’ To Move Into The Third Sector
Ben Pawson used his MBA to make a drastic career change, from technology strategist and project...
posted on: 23 November 2011
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The Benefits Of Studying For An MBA In Singapore Over India
Vidit Chaudhary talks about why he didn’t want to study in India but equally did not want to...
posted on: 22 November 2011
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CEIBS Is First Carbon Neutral Business School In Asia
I spoke to two members of team Decarbonators 2011 who are continuing to keep their business...
posted on: 21 November 2011
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Asia's Best Business Schools Beckon You
Discovering Asia as a Management Education Avenue
posted on: 18 November 2011
1 comment
AGSM MBA Invaluable, Says Gaming Start-Up Founder
Big corporates were too slow for entrepreneur Paul Gray, but after his MBA he raised AUD$1...
posted on: 18 November 2011
Ex Deloitte Consultant Heads To The Fletcher School
Nepalese student Shikhar Battari wanted to learn more about international business and the...
posted on: 17 November 2011
Acoustic Consultant Uses Bath MBA To Move Into Management Consulting
Ex-engineer Phil Way worked on outpatient analysis for a local NHS hospital for his MBA project
posted on: 16 November 2011
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Indian MBA Student At Germany's EBS Business School Interns At Top Engineering Firm
Suneet Pandey was excited by the opportunities on offer at the heart of Europe and landed an...
posted on: 15 November 2011
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MBA Applicant Gets Priceless Advice From CEO Of Multinational Corporation
Jean-Patrick Tsang was given advice from EMLYON MBA alumnus in Singapore
posted on: 14 November 2011
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I Ambushed A Meeting And Ended Up In Charge Of Blackberry In Eastern Europe
Former investment banker and Imperial MBA grad Eric Braune talks about his lucky break
posted on: 9 November 2011
Former British Army Officer On Tackling An MBA
Anthony Clark-Jones is using the MBA as a launch pad into the corporate world
posted on: 8 November 2011
MIP Graduate Hired By Colorado Consultancy Firm
Lauren Hardisky found her perfect job in Denver with Rebound Solutions Consultancy
posted on: 5 November 2011
1 comment
Inside View: Citigroup IT
Citigroup VP and Cass MBA Jaspal Negi on running the bank’s global IT program and how an MBA...
posted on: 5 November 2011
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Manchester MBAs Organise Summit On Today's Business Environment
The 2nd annual Manchester Business Summit brings together 300 MBAs, academics, entrepreneurs and...
posted on: 1 November 2011
3 comments
Eduniversal Ranking 2011: EBS awarded 5 Palms
EBS is now categorised as a “Universal Business School with major influence”
posted on: 28 October 2011
Last Salsa In Frankfurt For EBS Business School MBA Vinod Jose
Vinod Jose spent a term on exchange in Rio de Janeiro; he talks about the contrast in German and...
posted on: 27 October 2011
South America Waking Up To The Need For Environmental Education
Mexican MBA student Sybil Gomez has come to England to learn about sustainable business
posted on: 21 October 2011
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Student Who Switched From Distance-Learning To Full-Time MBA
Malaysian Adelaine Yeo found it hard to balance a distance-learning MBA around her job
posted on: 20 October 2011
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Traffic Law Enforcement Expert Studying For MBA In Hong Kong
Markus Pessara worked as a software developer for traffic radar systems before deciding to take...
posted on: 17 October 2011
2 comments
MBA Uncle Mastering Business In Singapore
Reynold Dai talks about his time at Nanyang Business School and his exchange to Tel Aviv
posted on: 14 October 2011
1 comment
Telecoms Whizz On Lancaster MBA
Viktor Bale has a PhD in telecoms engineering and did an MBA to get a better understanding of...
posted on: 13 October 2011
6 comments
Mexican Engineer Studies French MBA
Gerardo Aranda Claussen believed engineering only showed half the picture of what it takes to...
posted on: 10 October 2011
3 comments
MBA’s Journey From Made in China to Made for China
Julia Millard engaged with China and its business future on an ESMT field seminar this summer
posted on: 3 October 2011
Nanyang Business School Promotes Green Trading
Recent corporate social responsibility initiatives show Nanyang MBA are taking steps to develop...
posted on: 28 September 2011
1 comment
Ripcurl Environmental Officer On Riding The MBA Wave
Eric Dargent’s passion for the environment has meant a good fit with Exeter’s One Planet MBA
posted on: 20 September 2011
2 comments
Are European Business Schools More International?
Liuichi Hara, who has just completed an MBA at Grenoble Ecole de Management, compares the US,...
posted on: 4 August 2011
2 comments
To MBA or Not To MBA?
Warwick Business School Turns To Shakespeare To Help Its MBAs
posted on: 3 August 2011
1 comment
Around The World With EBS Business School
During his MBA program Leo Tom Zachariah didn’t just learn from the top business school...
posted on: 29 July 2011
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My life with CUMBA
A German student explains how she's adapted to a life in Hong Kong
posted on: 6 July 2011
Is Your Business School Really That International?
Exchange programs, class diversity and even foreign campuses make for a superficial experience...
posted on: 16 June 2011
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Scholarship Supports Eastern European Students In Germany
Hungary native Miklós Tomcsányi tells us more about the Péter Horvát Scholarship and EBS...
posted on: 16 May 2011
5 comments
Nyenrode MBAs Focus Hard On Career Networking
Braving 90 hour working weeks but still enjoying the challenges, says Indian student on...
posted on: 6 April 2011
3 comments
From Wales To An MBA In The Heart Of Washington DC: Jamil Fahmy's Story
Ex-Saudi forex dealmaker thinks an MBA at the George Washington University School Of Business...
posted on: 11 November 2010
3 comments
Cass Students Have The Financial Markets At Their Fingertips
Thomson Reuters study zone opens at Cass Business School in London
posted on: 28 September 2010
9 comments
Guide to Accreditation
All the good schools are accredited. But are all the accredited schools good?
posted on: 18 June 2010
4 comments
Louis Vuitton Opens Door to HEC MBA Grad
HEC alumni reveals how she's secured the job that every girl dreams about
posted on: 28 May 2010
2 comments
Mexico: Home of the World's Cheapest MBAs
Elite EGADE and IPADE cost a fraction of top US and European schools
posted on: 9 November 2009
5 comments
Where Are All The Broads? A Ratio Analysis
Which schools have the best and the worst male-female ratios?
posted on: 26 October 2009
4 comments
Son Follows Father's Footsteps to Warwick MBA
Matthew Bailey pips his dad by a few marks, but 18 years ago Les had no internet
posted on: 6 October 2009
3 comments
First MBAs Graduate from Murdoch University Dubai
Class size at one-year-old school has increases six times this year
posted on: 3 October 2009
1 comment
The GW School of Business Creates a Brand New Tourist Destination
What do a Nigerian, a German, and a Costa Rican do in a forgotten corner of the Free State?
posted on: 15 July 2009
5 comments
Russia Rising
First look at the new Moscow school of Management Skolkovo while it's still under construction...
posted on: 6 July 2009
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