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REGISTER: Upcoming UIC Liautaud Information Session
Prospective MBAs interested in learning more about the UIC Liautaud’s Master’s degree programs are encouraged to attend a general information session at the school’s Chicago campus. These sessions happen all of the time, with the next information session falling on June 9, from 6PM-7:30PM at Douglas Hall Room 170, found at 705 S. Morgan Street, Chicago. Continue reading…
Fox EMBA Ranked No. 1 in Philly
The Executive MBA program at Temple University’s Fox School of Business has been ranked by no. 1 in the Philadelphia region by The Economist. The Economist also ranked the program no. 28 among U.S. colleges and universities and no. 45 globally. The “Which MBA” rankings were released on May 14. The Economist has ranked the Fox EMBA program has been ranked no. 1 in the Philadelphia area since 2013.
The Economist ranks programs on two broad measures for these rankings: personal development/educational experience and career development. In order to complete the rankings, schools with EMBA programs were allowed to classify their own programs as EMBA. Programs can be classified as an EMBA program as long as it is a part-time program and enrolled students with significantly more work experience than those who are completing their full-time MBAs.
Johnson & Johnson CEO To Address Grads at Carey Business School Commencement
Johns Hopkins University’s Carey Business School will be ushering in a new graduating class of alumni on Wednesday, May 20 in the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall at 4:00PM. Alex Gorsky, Chairman of the Board & CEO of Johnson & Johnson, is scheduled to be the speaker during the commencement ceremony. Continue reading…
What Will It Take to Get More Women Seeking MBAs?
The business world is often thought of as a male dominated landscape. That’s a perception and a reality that has been shifting over the years. But, according to the Wall Street Journal, business schools are concerned that “the pipeline of young women may be running dry,” due to a dip in the overall number of students who are interested in getting an MBA. Continue reading…
Terry’s EMBA Jumped Eight Spots in Worldwide Ranking
In The Economist’s most recent ranking of Executive MBA programs, University of Georgia Terry College of Business ranked number 14 worldwide. In the previous ranking, Terry’s program came in the number 22 spot worldwide. Continue reading…
Simmons Healthcare MBA Students Share Experiences
Two Healthcare MBA students from the Simmons School of Management recently shared their experience with the school’s blog. Corinna McFarland and Johanna Georgics come from different backgrounds but decided to pursue the Simmons Healthcare MBA to further their careers in the health care field. McFarland was recently hired as the Decision Support Analyst in the Finance Department at Boston Children’s Hospital, while Georgics, who has a background in clinical nursing, now serves as the Senior Manager for the Clinical Quality Management team at athenahealth.
Both students contribute their new careers to the skills and knowledge that they learned through the Healthcare MBA program at Simmons. Georgics, who is also a Simmons Nursing School alumnus, hopes that her education can help to continue to support her career goal to have a significant impact to improve health care using technology. McFarland, who before taking the position with the Boston Children’s Hospital, worked for several years at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in development. She tells readers that the HCMBA coursework really prepared her for her new role that has more of a finance aspect to it than her previous job.
How to Choose an MBA Internship
As the academic year comes to a close, many students are preparing for summer internships. Internships often lead to full-time jobs after graduation and help students to develop their professional networks. Internships also give students the opportunity to practice the skills that they have learned during classes. Most MBA programs require students to complete an internship over the summer after their first year in the program.
Choosing an internship that will benefit you as a student and as a professional can be a difficult task. Business Insider says that “The MBA summer internship is a major part of the business school experience and getting the right one is important. Good internships are extremely competitive and the struggling economy has made it harder than ever.” The website offers students several tips for choosing an internship.
London Business School Offers Three Paths for Summer Enrichment
Summer internships are influential in MBA students’ future careers, often helping define their paths and connecting them with the companies and firms where they may be employed. Whether they want to try out a new industry, work abroad or develop skills in a particular area, an internship or other will make students’ summer a professionally rewarding experience.
This is especially true at London Business School, where 100% of students do some type of summer program after the first year and 91% accept offers with new employers.
The majority of students access internship opportunities through London Business School’s Career Services team who have a wide and established network of companies from startup to large structured corporate programmes, all interested in LBS students. Others use personal contacts or access the School’s wider network of students, alumni and industry contacts when setting up summer opportunities.
For those who are interested in alternative paths, LBS offers two other choices: the Summer Consulting Programme and the Entrepreneurship Summer School.
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Lucas Redesigns MBA Programs
The Conventional MBA and the Executive-Style MBA at the Lucas Graduate School of Business have been reworked and renamed the Early Career MBA and the MBA for Professionals. The programs will differ according to the student profile, the time allotted for program completion, program flexibility, admission cycles and deadlines and the program location.
The Early Career MBA program is designed for students that have a limited amount of professional work experience. Generally, students in this program have between zero and five years of experience. Classes for this program are held on the San José State University Campus. The MBA for Professionals program is for students who have more than five years of professional work experience. This program has a flexible schedule, which is ideal for working professionals. Classes for this program are held at the Lucas Business Complex in Santa Clara.
Naveen Jindal School of Management – University of Texas at Dallas
History
The founders of Texas Instruments established the University of Texas at Dallas in 1969. UT Dallas has grown from an enrollment of 45 graduate students in 1970 to more than 29,000 undergraduate and graduate students today. The Jindal School of Management is the largest of UT Dallas’s eight schools.
The School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas was opened in 1975. The school was later renamed the Naveen Jindal School of Management after alumnus Naveen Jindal in 2011.
Jindal earned his MBA from UT Dallas in 1992. Jindal was named a 2010 UT Dallas Distinguished Alumnus, and gave the largest alumni gift ever given the university to that time. In addition to founding and serving as the chancellor of the O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) in Haryana, India,he also serves as chairman of Jindal Steel and Power Limited, a multibillion-dollar family conglomerate.
Jindal also is the founder of the Flag Foundation of India and served two five-year terms in the Lok Sabha, Parliament’s lower house.
The Naveen Jindal School of Management is accredited by AACSB.
Locations
The Naveen Jindal School of Management is located on the main campus of the University of Texas at Dallas. UT Dallas is located in Richardson, Texas, just 20 minutes away from downtown Dallas.
Facilities
The Jindal School of Management offers students 12 centers and institutions in addition to the school itself:
• Center and Laboratory for Behavioral Operations and Economics
• Center for Professional Sales
• Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management
• Center for Global Business
• Center for Finance Strategy Innovation
• Center for Information Technology and Management
• Center for Intelligent Supply Networks
• Center for the Analysis of Property Rights and Innovation
• Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance
• Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Center for Internal Auditing Excellence
• International Accounting Development: Oil and Gas
• International Center for Decision and Risk Analysis
• The Leadership Center
• Morris Hite Center for Marketing
• Institute for Real Estate
Students at the Jindal School also have access to the Career Management Center. The CMC offers a variety of resources to help MBA students to develop a plan for their future careers.
The Career Management Center’s coaches work with students to create and develop resumes, improve interviewing skills and to develop a strategic plan for obtaining employment.
The Eugene McDermott Library is partnered with the Jindal School to provide students with important research resources. The library also gives Jindal students access to The Management Satellite/Data Lab, a virtual library, which allows students to receive research assistance from a librarian, as well as access to the Library’s electronic resources.
Faculty
The faculty at Jindal is made up of 335 educators. Twenty-seven of the faculty members have been appointed to endowed posts. The Jindal School ranks high in the research productivity of its faculty, with the The UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings putting it at number five both in North America and globally.
Student Body
The most recent enrollment at the Jindal School of Management was 9,069 total students, with 4,639 graduate students. The average GMAT score of all admitted students is 600. The average GPA of admitted students is 3.3.
MBA Degree Offerings
The UT Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management offers a full-time MBA, Professional MBA, Executive MBA, Global Leadership Executive MBA, and an Online Professional MBA programs.
Earning the MBA Becomes More Family Friendly
Women have always faced certain biases when it comes to business. Pay gaps, maternity leave and the overall balance of work and family life have limited women to positions that are available to them. However, over the last few years the number of women in leadership positions at Fortune 500 companies and in political office has increased. According to the Pew Research Center, “Women have made inroads in this area slowly over time.”
Twenty years ago, there were no female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. Now, women make up 5 percent of CEOs in the country’s Fortune 500 companies, 17 percent of the corporate board members among Fortune 500 companies and there are now 104 women who serve as members of Congress, according to the Pew Center. The number of state legislators who are women has also risen from 4.5 percent in 1971 to 24.2 percent in 2015.
The corporate and political worlds are not the only places where women are beginning to see changes. Colleges and Universities are now seeing more women enrolled in MBA programs than ever before. According to Pew, in 2013 women earned 36 percent of MBAs. Specifically, the Sloan School of Management at MIT welcomed the largest class of women in the school’s history in 2014. The incoming class of MBA students at Sloan in the Fall of 2014 was 40 percent female, up from 33 percent from the last year.
Smith Alum to Run For President
Move over Hillary—Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina has announced her bid to become the first woman president of the United States. Fiorina also happens to be an MBA graduate (class of ‘80) of the Robert H. Smith School of Business.
As an alum, Fiorina has remained active in the Smith community. According to a press release on the Smith website, she donated $100,000 to the Smith School’s Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship in 2007 and has remained engaged at the university. Continue reading…
Mentorship at McCombs Starts With a Meal
With graduation right around the corner, many students at University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business are contemplating their futures. Planning for the future can be a difficult task. In an attempt to help students find their way through this complicated time, McCombs recently hosted their annual Executive Mentorship Dinner. Continue reading…
Davis MBA Student Shares Experience
Amber Lewis is a full-time MBA student at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. She will graduate this spring from the program. Lewis explains that she enjoys attending UC Davis for her MBA for three main reasons. The first is the caliber of students in the program. The median GMAT scores and GPA earned by students in the Full-Time MBA program at Davis are 690 and 3.18. The second reason why she enjoys the program is the community that is created among the students and the faculty. The third reason is the quality of education that she has received. “I know that it will progress my career beyond my imagination,” Lewis said
In regards to her educational experience at Davis, Lewis specifically comments on the consulting project that students have to complete. Students work with a company to serve as consultants on projects that will help to students to hone their business management skills that they have learned in the program. “It is an opportunity that I would not necessarily have gotten at another school, but because of our relationship with the community, the school was able to facilitate that, which is a phenomenal opportunity to apply my classroom learning outside of the classroom,” Lewis said.
BC Alumnus Gift Establishes Fellowship for Irish Students
Irish entrepreneur and philanthropist Denis O’Brien has donated a financial gift to establish an MBA fellowship for Irish students at the BC Carroll School of Management. Each year, the fellowship will fully fund the cost of the MBA program at BC for two Irish students. O’Brien is the chairman and principal shareholder of Digicel Group, one of the world’s fastest growing cellular companies as well as the owner and board member of Communicorp, Ireland’s largest media holding company.
An alumnus of BC’s MBA program, O’Brien created the Fellowship at Boston College to provide an opportunity for aspiring business leaders from Ireland to obtain a graduate education at a premier American university. O’Brien graduated from BC’s Carroll School of Management with an MBA in corporate finance in 1982.
Villanova Students Receive Meyer Innovation and Creative Excellence Awards
Five students from the Villanova School of Business have been announced as the winners of the annual Meyer Innovation and Creative Excellence Awards. The awards were given out by Villanova’s Center for Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship. The five students that were selected to receive the award are: Joanna Schaff ’15 COE, Alyssa Nazar ’15 CLAS, Stephanie Rozalski ’15 VLS, Teresa Yang ’15 CON, and Sergio Rizzuto-Flancbaum ’15 VSB. Hezekiah Lewis, III, M.F.A, assistant professor of film studies, earned the faculty ICE Award.
The ICE Awards were created and endowed by Patrick Meyer ’74 VSB. The awards were established in honor of the Meyer family (Patrick ’74, Edward ’86, and C. Paul ’30) to recognize a spirit of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship that enhances Villanova University. Those who are given the Meyer ICE Award receive a trophy and a cash award of $2,500 for faculty recipients and $1,000 for student recipients.
Stern Exec Director of MBA Admissions Interviewed About MBA Program Choices
TIME recently interviewed Executive Director of MBA Admissions at the NYU Stern School of Business, Alison Goggin about how to choose a MBA program. She was asked about how a prospective student knows which program is right for them, whether students should choose a program based on the type of program or on years of work experience that a student has previously attained and when is the right time for prospective students to apply for a MBA program.
Goggin explains that business schools offer a variety of MBA programs to meet the needs of professionals. MBA programs are for students who just graduated or for students with many years of work experience. She said that only the applicants will know if it is the right time to apply for a program. She gives readers some questions to think about while trying to decide if it is the right time to apply for the MBA, “Some questions to consider…Do you have a clear sense of the academic, professional and personal goals you hope to achieve in the MBA program? Is the timing ideal for you from both a career and personal standpoint?”
Stanford MBA Elective Helps Students Learn Broad Impact of Finance
A new elective course for the MBA program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business helps students to learn more about the broad implications of finance. Anat Admati teaches the Finance and Society elective course. She is a well-known critic of current banking regulations. In her class, she helps students learn to understand and critically analyze the economic and human implications of finance. For the class, Admati teaches by bringing together different expert viewpoints on banking, law, accounting, politics, financial regulation and the media.
There is no math taught in the class, but the main principles and theories are reviewed for discussions. Readings from the course are from the professor’s book “The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It” as well as documents from the Federal Reserve, media stories, guest essays and news commentary. For MBA students, Admati brings guest speakers to help to enrich the course with real-world perspectives and insights into the industry and the policy issues.
