Top 5 MBA Programs: China
Over the past several years, MBA programs throughout Asia have been on the rise. They’ve proved over and over again that they deserve recognition as competitive business schools. And there’s no doubt that many institutions are working their way up the ladder. This is definitely the case for business education in China.
Continue reading…Top 5 Full-Time MBA Programs: Australia
When it’s not engulfed in flames, Australia boasts a diversified economy and holds high scores across the board on the OECD Better Life Index. Australia is also advantageously located close to Asia, with some of the world’s fastest-growing economies.
Continue reading…New MBA Jobs: Goldman Sachs, Walmart, Coca Cola, and More
A new week means a new rundown of the best new MBA jobs out there! This list features entry level positions and roles for seasoned vets, so there’s something for everyone here. Apply today and get your post-MBA career started right away!
What Makes an EMBA Worth It? Students, Alumni Share Their Thoughts
In an interview with the Financial Times, five EMBA students and alumni spoke about the most important lessons they learned during their time in school. They covered a variety of topics including how the alumni network has helped them, the advice they would give to a new EMBA student, and what they learned from their classmates. In this article, we’ll provide a brief overview of a few of the most valuable tips.
Cultivate Your Global Network
For Idara Umoh Nickelson, an ’17 EMBA graduate at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, the main opportunity she seized was to cultivate the global network that she was exposed to. This network, which spanned five campuses and four countries (United States, Canada, Germany, and Hong Kong), provided her with a range of valuable advice including “don’t feel guilty about the time you will spend on yourself.” This advice helped her learn to take advantage of every opportunity during her schooling, which helped her land a job in healthcare—her passion.
Use Your EMBA to Your Advantage
Casey Worthington, an ’19 EMBA student at Cornell Johnson, had a busy role in IT as a consulting-based project and program manager. It was a challenging position, but he wanted more; in particular, he wanted to move into a business leadership role. The EMBA allowed him to head in that direction while still balancing his family life and work. Post-enrollment, he accepted a dream job, and to Worthington, it was the EMBA that gave him the advantage.
Tailor Your Journey
There’s a lot of different advice that Blair Wood, an ’18 EMBA student at the London Business School, would give to aspiring students, but his main advice is to tailor your EMBA to your journey. “Be guided but not overly influenced by others . . . there is a relatively narrow window to maximize a valuable and rare chance for personal growth,” he told the Financial Times. “You need to explore the vast array of opportunities, find the blend that suits you and do things at your pace.”
Learn About Other Perspectives
For Krystal Bojan, an ’18 EMBA student at Columbia Business School, London Business School, and the University of Hong Kong, her experience has been about learning from a variety of different cultures and nationalities. Having an immersive educational experience around the world, Bojan has had to learn how different locations have different styles of communicating, problem-solving, and influencing. For example, she told the Financial Times: “Working for western multinationals where the culture was non-hierarchical, I was accustomed to approaching people directly to get things done. In Asia, it is strongly driven by carefully cultivated relationships and networks of influence, or ‘guanxi’.”
To read additional advice from each EMBA student or alumni and to see what an EMBA alumni from Melbourne Business School had to say, read the full article in the Financial Times.
D’Amore-McKim Student Biz Pitches Japanese Organic Green Tea
Northeastern’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business recently published an article on Velvetea, a student-owned and operated organic Japanese green tea trader. Velvetea focuses on “importing and selling matcha green tea, a powdered green tea that can be stirred into hot water to drink or added to recipes for additional flavor.”
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Saïd Study Examines How to Get Businesses More Involved in Creating More Inclusive Capitalism
Oxford’s Saïd School of Business recently shared new research focused on identifying and confronting the significant challenges involved in getting business to play a greater role in creating more inclusive economies, particularly in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
