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MBA Club: MIP Politecnico di Milano Entrepreneurship

Interview with MIP Politecnico di Milano Entreprenurship club president, Roberto Sapio and his...

posted on: 22 May 2012

IE Business School MBA Snapped Up By Elite Firm Bain & Co!

Fabio Gastaldi says that Bain & Co. in Italy is growing its technology sector business, so people...

posted on: 21 May 2012

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 | 6 comments

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

Tired Of Living In A Slow EU Economy? Pack Up And Head To Switzerland!

Simon Evenett is the Academic Director of the St. Gallen MBA. He urges EU citizens who don’t...

posted on: 9 May 2012

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London The Primate City

Can you imagine setting up a brand new internet company in the UK’s third largest city,...

posted on: 4 May 2012 | 1 comment

HEC Paris Revamps Its MBA With An Emphasis On Employability

Europe's top ranked MBA programme has been restructured following feedback from major employers...

posted on: 3 May 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 | 1 comment

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 | 2 comments

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 | 1 comment

Students From The Lancaster Global MBA In Jordan Get A Taste Of The UK Campus!

Lancaster University Management School currently teaches its Global MBA in Singapore, Jordan and...

posted on: 23 April 2012

One Year To Do Good Through Business On The On Purpose Leadership Programme

HEC Paris MBA Saskia Green is an On Purpose Associate at Santander bank in the UK

posted on: 23 April 2012 | 1 comment

Don't Ask Me Questions, Just Make A Decision!

A Berlin-based mobile payments start-up headhunted Clement Luton and Tomer Sabag fresh from the...

posted on: 18 April 2012

Why MBA: The University of St. Gallen HSG

Ex-Oracle and Accenture consultant heads to St Gallen to learn how tech firms can integrate...

posted on: 16 April 2012

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

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My MBA Application Journey: Part four

Our MBA Applicant has three offers in hand! He shares juicy details about his interviews at LBS...

posted on: 8 April 2012 | 4 comments

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 | 2 comments

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

Mashpan Helps People Make Sense of Their Online Information Feeds!

Launched out of IE Business School, Mashpan presents information from services like Gmail,...

posted on: 30 March 2012 | 2 comments

HEC Paris Brings Together 600 Experts For Annual Sustainable Business Conference

Fact of the day: if all buildings in France were energy efficient, the country's energy...

posted on: 29 March 2012 | 1 comment

Two Promotions At Work For Part-time MBA Student!

Aston Business School's Geoff Guerin received two promotions at UK health insurance firm BHSF

posted on: 29 March 2012 | 1 comment

Meet International High Flyers On The Duke Cross Continent MBA!

Your classmates on this 16-month global MBA from the Fuqua School of Business are working for...

posted on: 28 March 2012

MBA Students At MIP in Milan Describe Their School in 15 Languages!

Links to Milan's luxury goods labels and Italy's engineering industries are among the top reasons...

posted on: 27 March 2012

EMLYON Incubator Attracting Millions Of Euros To Its High Tech Start-ups

Did you know that Lyon is one of Europe's high tech start-up hubs? EMLYON's Incubator has...

posted on: 23 March 2012 | 1 comment

CEIBS And INSEAD Help Chinese Enterprises Expand Into Europe

The one-week programme, that will run in Fontainebleau this summer, will help leading Chinese...

posted on: 21 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

Hands-on Learning Through INSEAD Field Trips

Professor Casanova talks about 'Field Trip to Brazil' one of the 75 elective courses at INSEAD

posted on: 15 March 2012

Meet The Team: Oliver Matthews, St. Gallen MBA

In the first of our new series of interviews with B-School Admissions teams, we talk to Oliver...

posted on: 13 March 2012 | 2 comments

How B-Schools Can Still Be A Golden Ticket

Internationalization is the key says Thierry Grange, Dean of Grenoble Ecole de Management. The...

posted on: 13 March 2012 | 2 comments

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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

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My MBA Application Journey: Part three

Our MBA Applicant visits a couple of contingency schools and accepts an offer from one of them!

posted on: 6 March 2012 | 3 comments

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 | 1 comment

Strategy lessons from Steve Jobs & other fascinating master classes this month from the INSEAD Asia tour

The INSEAD Asia tour has a great line up of Master classes to accompany their MBA information...

posted on: 5 March 2012 | 2 comments

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 | 2 comments

MBAs Compete For $1M Seed Funding In Hult Global Case Challenge!

Business Because caught up with teams from MIP Politecnico di Milano and EMLYON as they prepared...

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

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 | 1 comment

Inside View: Rocket-Internet

Meet the Berlin investors who have a formula for launching internet companies at rocket speed

posted on: 24 February 2012 | 3 comments

This Berlin Entrepreneur Thinks He Can Speed Up Scientific Discovery

Ijad Madisch is founder of ResearchGate, a networking site for scientists around the world backed...

posted on: 24 February 2012 | 4 comments

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 | 1 comment

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 | 1 comment

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 | 1 comment

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 | 3 comments

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 | 1 comment

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

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My MBA Application Journey: Part two

This week our anonymous MBA applicant sits the GMAT a second time and visits INSEAD, London...

posted on: 3 February 2012 | 4 comments

HEC Paris Partners with Google to Create Google@HEC Chair

E-business classes and start-up weekends will be open to students from other management, design...

posted on: 2 February 2012 | 1 comment

OU MBA Makes Ian Smith Go-To Man At Property Firm!

He's only been doing it a few months but Ian Smith is already applying learnings from his MBA to...

posted on: 1 February 2012

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 | 12 comments

Why MBA: INSEAD

The electronic engineer landed an incredible role at Rolls Royce right after completing his...

posted on: 24 January 2012 | 2 comments

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 | 4 comments

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 | 5 comments

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 | 2 comments

HEC Paris MBA Sparkles At Jeweller Pandora

Dan Harrison headed to Paris for an MBA and landed a job in in luxury goods in Hong Kong

posted on: 10 January 2012 | 2 comments

Virgin Media Manager Makes Time For OU MBA

Clive Phelps is Head of Programmes at Virgin Media Business and the firm sponsors his MBA

posted on: 6 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 | 6 comments

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Rio de Janeiro – Cidade Maravilhosa (Wonderful Town)

Vinod Jose EBS MBA alumni wrote an account of his exchange to Rio and it's one of our fave...

posted on: 28 December 2011 | 1 comment

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 | 1 comment

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 | 3 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 | 6 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 | 3 comments

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 | 3 comments

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 | 2 comments

OU MBA Helps IT Consultant Go Freelance

After being made redundant from Pfizer, Dave Stockey went freelance, and he hasn't looked back!

posted on: 5 December 2011 | 2 comments

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

Management Consultant And Punk Rock People Manager On OU MBA

Peter Cook's employer paid for his MBA as it was better value than hiring a consultant

posted on: 30 November 2011

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 | 6 comments

SDA Bocconi MBA Alumni On Executive Board Of The European Central Bank

Jörg Asmussen has been given one of the most important jobs in European finance

posted on: 29 November 2011

The Growing Influence Of The Lancaster MBA Alumni Network

Whether it is an after work drink or a job introduction, the alumni network is a useful resource...

posted on: 28 November 2011 | 2 comments

Why MBA Students Go On Exchange

We talk to three MBA students about the advantages of doing an exchange

posted on: 28 November 2011 | 4 comments

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Do entrepreneurs need an MBA?

UCD Smurfit Entrepreneurship Club grooms prospective entrepreneurs

posted on: 26 November 2011 | 7 comments

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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 | 3 comments

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 | 9 comments

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 | 21 comments

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 | 4 comments

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 | 8 comments

London's Next Generation Of MBAs

Prospective MBAs and alumni gather for the BusinessBecause MBA Drinks Club In London

posted on: 10 November 2011 | 1 comment

MBA Students: Should Greece exit the Euro?

As the Eurozone faces its largest challenge to date, we asked Greek MBA students what decision...

posted on: 9 November 2011 | 1 comment

Five Schools. Four Continents. OneMBA.

This truly Global EMBA spans across Hong Kong, Rotterdam, Monterrey, Chapel Hill and Sao Paolo

posted on: 9 November 2011 | 1 comment

MIP Graduate Hired By Colorado Consultancy Firm

Lauren Hardisky found her perfect job in Denver with Rebound Solutions Consultancy

posted on: 5 November 2011 | 4 comments

Golf Pro Swinging Into Business Success

Mexico City native, Pablo Esteves is a golf pro turned business pro. The transition took place at...

posted on: 1 November 2011 | 5 comments

Investment Banker Gets Best Of Both Worlds With MBA In Paris And New York

The Lebanese banker has worked for some of the world's largest banks

posted on: 31 October 2011 | 6 comments

Dean Of The Open University Business School, James Fleck, Talks About Learning Methods

James Fleck discusses the 'powerful learning methodology' at Open University

posted on: 31 October 2011 | 2 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

Kitesurfing Consultant At SDA Bocconi

Andre Krzyzowski reveals how his MBA has helped him land his dream job at one of the world's...

posted on: 26 October 2011 | 2 comments

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The End of Time, As We Know It

Assessing the Environment and Looking Ahead as The Watch Industry stands at Strategic Crossroads

posted on: 25 October 2011 | 1 comment

MBA Final Project Sows Seeds Of Luxury Design Company

Kristan Leroy used her MBA project to work out a business model for Leroy & Scarpa

posted on: 24 October 2011 | 8 comments

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 | 2 comments

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 | 5 comments

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Students win £10,000 for plan for mobile phone charging business

MBA students win the Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Design business plan competition

posted on: 18 October 2011

Have Businesses Learned A Lesson From The Blackberry Disaster?

Do the recent server blackouts spell the end for Blackberry...?

posted on: 13 October 2011 | 2 comments

Bath MBA Lands An Internship At Porsche

West African Salimata Diallo benefited from Bath's two-week break from studying, during which...

posted on: 11 October 2011 | 7 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

Meet MBA Alums From IE, LBS, ESCP, RSM, Kellogg, Booth & Berkeley

A hedge fund analyst, marketing director, finance head and several entrepreneurs share their...

posted on: 5 October 2011 | 1 comment

IE Business School Launches New Global Executive MBA

New program takes participants to the US, Brazil, Spain and China, and uses latest technology to...

posted on: 4 October 2011 | 9 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

Joint Alumni Conference Brings Together CEOs, Deans and MBA Alums From Top Business Schools

Heads of Deutsche Bank, Novartis and Africa's Celtel among heavyweight speakers at the premiere...

posted on: 2 October 2011 | 1 comment

Four Great MBAs In European Financial Centres

A glimpse at HEC Paris, EBS Business School, SDA Bocconi and Cass Business School

posted on: 29 September 2011

MIP MBA Takes Student to the United Nations

MIP Politecnico di Milano student Monica Hornung Cattan tackled the United Nations Economic...

posted on: 27 September 2011 | 3 comments

Grenoble MBA Helps French Engineer In Silicon Valley

David Axelrad landed his dream job with STMicroelectronics in Santa Clara with the help of a...

posted on: 27 September 2011

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Thinking Of An MBA? Meet Admissions Directors One-To-One

AccessMBA are organising one-to-one events in 40 cities around the world - is there one near you?

posted on: 26 September 2011

IE MBA Students On Life-Changing Mission In South Africa

Trading Madrid for South Africa was like trading a crush for a relationship, for MBA student...

posted on: 26 September 2011 | 1 comment

Midwest Mandy Uses Her MBA For Social Business

Mandy Varley believes the family values of her upbringing will serve her well in business

posted on: 22 September 2011

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Employment Prospects Brighten for MBA Graduates

Meet a bunch of business school admissions staff one-on-one

posted on: 22 September 2011

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Visa Woes

American Applying to HEC Paris navigates the French visa system

posted on: 5 February 2010 | 4 comments

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Finding The Right Balance In B-school

An intensive week of study followed by a weekend in Italy: Morgan finds her equilibrium in Barcelona

posted on: 7 January 2010 | 3 comments

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It's Go Time

Her friends are all married but as her MBA nears its end, an American girl in Barcelona still...

posted on: 23 October 2009 | 5 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

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Bocconi Clockwork

At Italy's elite university you may spend more time in queues than you'd like

posted on: 4 August 2009 | 2 comments