Monthly Archives: April 2012

The University of St. Thomas’ Opus College of Business in Saint Paul, Minn.announced Monday it is expanding its hybrid and online options for its part-time MBA program. Called the blended Saturday Read More »

The Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) will offer a Thought Leader Session on Empowering Women at the 2012 ACBSP Annual Conference, to be held in Baltimore on June 16, from Read More »

Since 2004, the University of Wyoming has offered working professionals a 24-month, fully online, affordable general MBA degree program. Accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Read More »

Carnegie Mellon, Hult International Business School and NYU Abu Dhabi were announced Friday as the winning schools for the third annual Hult Global Case Challenge. The groups were received by U.S. President Read More »

The ninth annual Silicon Valley Boomer Venture Summit & Business Plan Competition is seeking applicants, according to a April 26 release. Hosted by Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business Read More »

A clear disconnect exists between what employers want out of new business school graduates, and the skills graduates actually have, according to a new report, co-initiated by the Council of Graduate Schools Read More »

Publisher Elsevier announced today it has launched a new iteration of the International Journal of Management Education, which was previously published published by the UK Higher Education Academy. Dedicated Read More »

Entrepreneur and strategy lecturer Michael Cummings has been named Faculty Director of the Babson Fast Track MBA program, the school’s 21-month hybrid option, according to a news release issued Read More »

For MBA graduates, the nonprofit and charitable route can be a blessing and a curse. Whether you have a nonprofit entrepreneurial idea, or an off-shoot of a larger corporation, fundraising for causes Read More »

Imagine what it would be like to go to work with these awesome working moms today. Read More »

The Sam and Irene Black School of Business at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will offer courses for its master’s degree in business administration beginning this fall at the Regional Learning Read More »

Officially, the corporate tax rate in the U.S. is around 35%, but many corporations pay only a small fraction of that amount. Read More »

Cleveland State University (CSU), in conjunction with McGraw-Hill Higher Education, announced today it will offer a fully-online, one-year accredited MBA option, called the Mobile AMBA. Each student in Read More »

Blended learning — using a combination of online and face-to-face teaching methods — enhances executive education, according to a report released by The International University Consortium Read More »

Some surprising companies are making Pinterest's visual features work for them. Read More »

Want to keep top employees? Offer tuition reimbursement. Want to prove yourself as an asset? Ask for tuition reimbursement. That was part of the results of OI Partners survey, released April 11, which Read More »

Almost every Twitter user is selling something, even if it's only a belief or an image they want to project. Read More »

The Rady School of Management at the University of California at San Diego was awarded $1.7 million this week as part of GMAC Met Fund i2i Challenge’s $7 million in grants distributed to 12 different Read More »

Watch out Ward Cleaver, June wants to work. And be successful. Reversing traditional gender roles, young women now surpass young men in saying that achieving success in a high-paying career or profession Read More »

The University of California at Los Angeles’ Anderson School of Management announced a new hybrid MBA option for the fall of 2012. The new schedule option, nicknamed the Fully Employed MBA program Read More »

The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC)’s MET Fund announced Tuesday it would be awarding over $7 million in grant money to 12 different recipients as part of its Ideas to Innovation (i2i Read More »

The University of Texas at Tyler is beginning three new online master’s degree programs this fall including a new MBA specialty. The East Texas school, part of the University of Texas System, will now Read More »

The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), owner of the GMAT exam, announced Tuesday that it is presenting more than $7.1 million in grants to 12 organizations around the world as part of its Ideas Read More »

Here are 10 ways in which the U.S. is still way ahead of China, and even a few ways the country has fought to reclaim titles once held by the Chinese. Read More »

One of the most influential books of the last century was published on this date 50 years ago — Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring.” The book, which warned of the dangers of indiscriminate Read More »

The joint online MSPharma/MBA is the unique result of a partnership between two of Florida’s top names in their niches. The University of Florida’s School of Pharmacy Master of Science in Read More »

Herzing University announced a new dual enrollment program that allows students to take courses that apply to both their bachelor of science degree and their MBA degree concurrently, earning both degrees Read More »

Women are starting businesses at 1.5 times the national average, a 20% increase over the last decade, concluded an infograhic compiled by MBA@UNC. They are also pursuing higher education in record numbers Read More »

From boardroom to mailroom, employees who spend their days in an office setting should familiarize themselves with the symptoms of office bullying. Read More »

In March, the number of information technology jobs grew by 15,000 or 0.4%, according to TechServe Alliance, a collaboration of IT services firms, clients, consultants and suppliers, in a news release Read More »