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GRADUALLY, it seems, generous benefactors are embracing business schools once again. Pre-recession, barely a month would pass without the announcement that some business, or businessman, had bequeathed tens of millions of dollars to a seat of management learning. The peak came in 2008 with David Booth’s $300m gift to Chicago, which encouraged the school to rename itself in his honour. Then came the credit crunch. Unsurprisingly donors stopped returning deans’ calls and a two year giving-hiatus followed. Schools’ endowments dwindled, starved of fresh cash.
The decision by a Chinese business school to set up in Africa highlights Western schools' reluctance to engage with the continent
FOR anyone seeking proof of the extent of China’s reach into Africa, this year’s graduation ceremony for executive MBA students at the partly state-run China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai would have been a good place to start. Alongside the predominantly Asian faces delightedly collecting their degrees were 30 Ghanaians and 12 Nigerians—the inaugural cohort on CEIBS’s Africa programme.
Schools need to integrate new technology into their MBA teaching. But doing so still involves plenty of trial and error
IN THE world of business they call it “the consumerisation of IT”: employees who are used to powerful smart phones and tablet computers in their personal lives are now demanding similar tools in their professional ones. Now business schools are also coming to terms with students who are increasingly tech savvy. Some even see the way they integrate technology with pedagogy as an opportunity to differentiate themselves from the B-school pack.
Business-school research: Your reputation precedes you
How companies' good reputations help get them over regulatory hurdles
CONFRONTED with a sink suddenly spurting water many homeowners have neither the knowledge nor the materials to make the repair themselves. In choosing a plumber they generally have to rely on some sort of signal of quality. A recommendation from a stranger helps; a recommendation from a sensible neighbour can help even more; prior, direct experience is best of all.
News from the schools, October and November 2010
Rolling news from the business campuses
Columbia moving home, ESMT and Harvard get windfalls and more...
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The financial crisis has prompted budget cuts and soul-searching. But American MBA programmes still have plenty of demand to meet
Now is a terrible time to enter an MBA programme, with investment banks and financial services, those eager bonus-payers, skittish, and the public at large unimpressed. Or perhaps it is a wonderful time to enter an MBA programme, as schools respond to criticism (and shrinking budgets) with greater innovation and thoughtful instruction. Quite possibly, both perspectives are true—at least to a point. Regardless, the market for MBAs in North America remains strong.
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