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Why European MBA Students Love Chicago!

As the city hosts the world’s leaders at the NATO summit, two MBA students at the Chicago Booth...

posted on: 22 May 2012
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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 1 comment
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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 1 comment
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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 1 comment
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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
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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
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McKinsey Takes MBA Grad From Montreal to Dakar

Tom Park (Tuck MBA 2010) tells us about his post-MBA career at management consulting firm McKinsey

posted on: 8 March 2012
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Exploring New York City With The Greenest New Yorker!

Kaity Tsui, I LOVE NY’s first ever Greenest New Yorker shares some tips for eco adventures in NYC

posted on: 28 November 2011 4 comments
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Gourmet Blogger Finding The Hidden Influencers In San Francisco

Carina Ost's job is to find the friends, family and co-workers who are the most influential...

posted on: 22 November 2011 1 comment
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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
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Tuck B-Professor Likens Innovation To High Jump At Management Thinkers Summit!

The Thinkers50 awards are a great way to keep up with what leading business school professors are...

posted on: 16 November 2011 2 comments
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Why Should You Do An MBA In Canada?

A relatively strong economy, businesses that value their people and easier immigration rules than...

posted on: 14 November 2011 3 comments
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Inside View: Job Prospects Are Brightening!

Alabama-based head-hunter specialising in engineering and tech firms says that recruiters have...

posted on: 10 November 2011 1 comment
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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
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MBAs Study Baseball in the Dominican Republic

The George Washington School of Business sent 14 MBA students on a study trip to meet with talent...

posted on: 7 November 2011 2 comments
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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
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Raise Your Business IQ with MBA IQ

Do you have the business acumen necessary for an MBA?

posted on: 4 November 2011 2 comments
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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 3 comments
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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 2 comments
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Fletcher School’s Master in International Business Builds Green Cred

Fletcher School MIB student James Siegel helped home cleaning firm ServiceMaster reduce fuel usage

posted on: 5 October 2011 2 comments
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Meet the Haas School of Business Class of 2012!

The Haas School's class of 2012 includes a British-born expert on China's pharmaceutical industry...

posted on: 30 September 2011 3 comments
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Fletcher School MIB Student Creates Energy Strategy For EBay

Gabrielle Maguire spent her summer on an EDF Climate Corps Fellowship at EBay’s HQ in San Jose,...

posted on: 29 September 2011
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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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21st Century Business Education At The Fletcher School

The Fletcher School’s Master in International Business covers the governmental, legal and...

posted on: 16 August 2011 1 comment
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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 1 comment
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First MBA For Sports Stars!

George Washington School of Business launches its customized EMBA program for athletes

posted on: 19 July 2011 1 comment
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Master in International Business Helps Launch World Bank Career

Fletcher School grad Cecilia Paradi-Guilford’s research on telecommunications in Afghanistan...

posted on: 11 July 2011 2 comments
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John Kerry Addresses Fletcher School Class of 2011

In his keynote address to The Fletcher School’s 2011 graduating class, Senator John Kerry...

posted on: 27 June 2011 2 comments
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Three Great Business School Green Programs

More business schools are offering programs that integrate business and environmental issues

posted on: 7 June 2011 2 comments
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MBA Drawn Back To School For Another Two Years

Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi explains why, almost ten years after his MBA, he decided to pursue the...

posted on: 13 May 2011 1 comment
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How An MBA Helps In The Luxury Industry

IE Business School professor Maria Eugenia Girón tells us why the luxury industry needs MBA...

posted on: 3 May 2011
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Emerging Markets Hub Introduces Fletcher Students To Execs

Fletcher’s Center for Emerging Market Enterprises allows MIB students to interview executives...

posted on: 18 April 2011
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The GW School of Business Launches Crossroads Symposium

Crossroads Symposium organized by MBA students will host figures from the World Bank, Interpol,...

posted on: 27 March 2011
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New Fletcher Dean: US MBAs Fail To Create Leaders

Shrewdness about emerging markets and cross-disciplinary approaches are the only tickets to...

posted on: 26 February 2011 4 comments
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Facebook Forefather on Profit, Perjury and Parties

MBA student and Social Network star sees market in making investors publish their ideas

posted on: 21 February 2011 3 comments
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Iraq War Veteran Challenges US Oil Dependency at GWSB

GWU Energy Group President to host big names at climate change conference this week.

posted on: 8 February 2011 2 comments
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The MBA Show!

MIT MBAs team up to do a satirical talk show on American b-school culture

posted on: 7 January 2011 5 comments
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Empowering People With Non-Business Background

A Saudi Arabian, an American and a Brazilian share their experiences so far on the GW School of...

posted on: 17 December 2010 5 comments
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Q&A With Fletcher School Microfinance Expert

Professor Kim Wilson, who teaches on the Fletcher School’s Master in International Business,...

posted on: 25 November 2010 3 comments
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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
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iPads at B-School: Pros and Cons

Will the iPad revolutionise business school?

posted on: 29 October 2010 5 comments
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To be MBA or not to be an MBA, that is the Question

Stanford Alumna Tara Sophia Mohr shares her opinion of an MBA from a Womans Perspective

posted on: 30 September 2010 1 comment
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The Fletcher School Q+A

Business students at The Fletcher School aren't afraid to change the world, according to MIB 2011...

posted on: 23 September 2010 5 comments
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Why MBA: Wharton Business School 2

Social entrepreneur enjoys confronting people who think differently

posted on: 24 August 2010
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Foreign Students, Middle America Doesn't Want You

Public disillusionment with business means fewer opportunities for foreigners graduating from US...

posted on: 20 August 2010 4 comments
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Wharton Punk'd

Fellow teaching assistants give golden boy the Ashton Kutcher treatment

posted on: 10 August 2010
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Costa Rican Engineer Chooses Fletcher's Master Of International Business

Andres Valenciano, with an NGO background, joins Fletcher's MIB program this Fall

posted on: 9 August 2010 5 comments
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Q+A With Doug Guthrie, Dean of the George Washington University School of Business

Youthful Dean will take advantage of being at the intersection of business and politics

posted on: 21 July 2010 4 comments
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Wharton Global Alumni Forums: Seoul and Madrid

Wharton's Dean presents medal to two Korean business leaders who graduated in 1959

posted on: 12 July 2010 3 comments
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Another Thing To Thank Facebook For

Facebook has given life to a new breed of 'Social Media Consultants'

posted on: 9 July 2010 9 comments
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MBA Students' View on the World Cup

Villanova Students give us the real scoop on what they think about the World Cup!

posted on: 9 July 2010 3 comments
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A Winter at Kellogg

Turns out that a Chicago Winter isn't that bad if you spent it studying at Kellogg

posted on: 5 July 2010 1 comment
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When Columbia MBAs Knew How To Get Down

Were the Class of 2005 follies the best ever?

posted on: 2 July 2010
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Business School News: Goldman Harvard Recruit Commits to the MBA Oath

Elite b-school grad swears to put ethics before personal ambitions

posted on: 21 May 2010
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Where's The Beef?

George Washington Students in Serbia

posted on: 20 May 2010 2 comments
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Business School News: Kindle DX Fails Darden Business School Test

Darden students say “no” to Kindle DX and a Dubai monarch delivers speech at first EMBA cohort

posted on: 17 May 2010 5 comments
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Business School News: Blondes versus Brunettes in the Office

B-school news round-up from Australia, America and Singapore

posted on: 12 May 2010 5 comments
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Duke Stages Corporate Beauty Contest

Researchers reveal strong ties between appearance and success in business world

posted on: 28 April 2010
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Inside View: Rolls-Royce

Many business students have never been inside a factory, says company’s CFO

posted on: 27 April 2010 1 comment
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Apple Bites into B-Schools

Business courses at your fingertips and from India to Canada via an MBA

posted on: 21 April 2010 3 comments
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Are MBAs An Unethical Bunch?

Should the MBA program change to have a biased towards ethics?

posted on: 29 March 2010 3 comments
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Vlerick MBA Worked on Obama's Presidential Campaign

For Reggie Hubbard, George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq was a turning point, taking him on a road...

posted on: 9 February 2010
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How Harvard Helps

These HBS students are pretty darn happy with the School's vaunted network

posted on: 29 January 2010 2 comments
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A Whirlwind First Quarter at Kellogg

Kellogg student reflects on workload, Thanksgiving and relationships

posted on: 11 January 2010 1 comment
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Villanova Grad Breaks Into Movie Industry

Leo DiCaprio set to star as ex-con in movie scripted by undergrad business major

posted on: 4 January 2010 3 comments
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Juicy Details of Life at Cornell's Johnson School

At least someone at Cornell is having fun: staff members reveal affair by accidentally sending...

posted on: 17 December 2009 4 comments
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Thunderbird Helps Footballers Find Life After NFL

They might not need an education to make millions, but NFL athletes are heading to b-school to...

posted on: 11 December 2009 7 comments
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Darden Students Give Kindle Reality Check

MBAs just want a normal book for easy note taking

posted on: 16 November 2009 6 comments
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Most Awesome MBA Halloween Attire

Blogger BlinkyMummy suggests Judge Class of '09 had Halloween locked down

posted on: 28 October 2009
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Wharton Challenges Over-competitive Males and Incapable Females

Women make up 40 per cent of the new MBA class at Wharton, forcing guys on campus to re-think...

posted on: 7 October 2009 1 comment
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BBC Investigates Harvard Business School

BBC questioning HBS over their role in the recession?

posted on: 21 September 2009 1 comment
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MBAs Interrupt Sex to Check Their Blackberries

Ivy League graduates struggle to get down to business in bed

posted on: 19 September 2009 11 comments
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What Harvard Reject Wishes He'd Known

London-based Harvard/Sloan/Stanford/Wharton reject D.G finally found his “good fit”, Kellogg,...

posted on: 14 September 2009
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MBA Babe's Magic Essay

She didn’t even score 80% on her Quantitative Test, but blogger MBA Babe still cracked both...

posted on: 14 September 2009
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Why MBA:Tuck School of Business

Tuckies take care of each other, but life in nowheresville may drive you stir crazy

posted on: 13 September 2009 2 comments
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Why MBA: Darden School of Business

Nicki Allen wanted to learn, not just find a job, so picked a school known for its teaching 

posted on: 8 September 2009 2 comments
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Harvard Treasure Hunt

Last week they did the Spice Girls. This week: the Class of 2008's first day at HBS

posted on: 2 August 2009 2 comments
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Harvard's Spice Girls Tribute

The class of 2009 swore an oath of professional conduct. The class of 2008 sang about start-up...

posted on: 23 July 2009 2 comments
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Teddy Bear Effect Benefits Black CEOs

Subconscious fears of “aggressiveness” put black people at a disadvantage in business,...

posted on: 19 July 2009 6 comments
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Why MBA: Wharton School of Business 1

Hopeful titans of finance wanted a leg up and across, and got just that

posted on: 16 July 2009 5 comments
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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
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Surrounded By Clever People?

Michael Jackson’s rise and fall holds lessons for Qatari bank executive

posted on: 26 June 2009 9 comments
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Why MBA: Harvard Business School

London-based private equity manager had offers from Harvard and Wharton

posted on: 21 June 2009 2 comments
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Cricket Set to Score In the US?

Professional cricketer and MBA student says the new shorter game will increase the sport's...

posted on: 11 June 2009
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MBAs: Headed Downtown but Ended Up Crosstown

New York cabbie sympathizes with former Bear Stearns passenger who had to go back to Ireland

posted on: 30 May 2009 5 comments
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MBA Statesmen

Business is the second-most popular professional background for politicians but only a few have...

posted on: 28 April 2009 1 comment
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Wharton students offer hope to

Two students at Wharton Business School have developed a product that they claim will stop people...

posted on: 8 February 2009 3 comments
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Come the apocalypse, Wharton students can save us

Students arrive in the South Pole to consider survival tactics for the new economic dystopia

posted on: 2 February 2009
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Aston MBA Mohammed Rilwan: his classmates have said he's charismatic


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