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What MBA programs lack: management training (Washington Post, 02/07/2012)
The art and science of the day-to-day management of people is largely absent from today’s graduate management programs
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The MBA's Value? Debatable (Businessweek.com
, 01/13/2012)
If only it were that simple
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Indian MBAs: less attractive (ft.com
, 12/02/2011)
Indian students are passing on MBAs and instead going straight into stable jobs with big-ticket IT companies
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5 reasons you should drop out of your MBA program (CBS News, 11/30/2011)
Should I continue the MBA with no direction and just hope that it will open up some new career that I will enjoy more?
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MBA costs soar. Salaries? Not so much. (fortune.com
, 11/18/2011)
Yet another look at the diminishing returns of the degree
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MBA costs soar. Salaries? Not so much. (fortune.com
, 11/18/2011)
The total cost of a Stanford MBA is now more than $350,000. And salaries have not kept pace. Yet another look at the diminishing returns of the degree.
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MBAs Don't Merit the Cost (Businessweek.com
, 08/23/2011)
Amid the financial crisis and recession, placement rates and salaries for MBAs have taken hits, making the degree less valuable. Pro or con?
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Want to get an MBA? Buyers, beware. (fortune.com
, 08/19/2011)
While an MBA can open significant professional doors, B-school hopefuls ought to look long and hard before they leap, says Graduate Management Admission Council's David Wilson
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Got an MBA? Great, but I Prefer Uncommon Sense (nytimes.com, 06/11/2011)
Interview with Byron Lewis Sr., the chairman and chief executive of the UniWorld Group
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Top 5 Reasons an MBA is a Bad Investment (BNET, 02/16/2011)
The once-golden MBA is quickly losing its luster
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The MBA's last gasp (Canadian Business Online, 02/14/2011)
Business schools sell an outdated product. It's time for a reinvention.
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Meet the enemy of the MBA (fortune.com
, 02/10/2011)
Josh Kaufman, 28, is a self-proclaimed "independent business educator."
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For MBAs, Breaking Even is a More Distant Dream (Businessweek.com
, 01/06/2011)
Higher tuition and lower starting salaries mean it now takes MBAs nearly a year longer to earn back their B-school investment than it did in 2008
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The Buck Stops (and Starts) at Business School (Harvard Business Rev, 06/15/2009)
Unless America’s business schools make radical changes, society will become convinced that MBAs work to serve only their own selfish interests.
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An MBA Dream Deferred (Businessweek.com
, 02/08/2009)
With program costs rising and companies cutting back on tuition reimbursement, many successful applicants are being forced to put their MBA plans on hold.
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Lessons for Business Schools (strategy-business
, 03/24/2008)
New books and revisited history illuminate the irrelevance of today's MBA -- and ways to make it compelling again.
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Five Hard Truths About the MBA (BNET, 01/01/2008)
For years, an MBA degree has been seen as a first-class ticket to the management fast track. Some spend $100,000 or more to earn the degree, confident that it will propel their career into overdrive — and often that’s not an unreasonable expectation.
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What's an MBA really worth? (BNET, 12/31/2007)
Less and less, say increasingly vocal critics. Here’s what aspiring students and hiring managers need to know about where and why the MBA is falling short.
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Business Education Under the Microscope (Businessweek.com
, 12/26/2007)
Amid growing charges of irrelevancy, business schools launch a study of their impact on business
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Are B-Schools a Blight on the Land? (Businessweek.com
, 12/04/2007)
BusinessWeek's Hardy Green reviews "From Higher Aims to Hired Hands," a critique of the state of business schools
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B-Schools Soft on Soft Skills (Businessweek.com
, 08/02/2007)
What business schools teach doesn't always correspond to what managers value, researchers find
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M.B.A.s Don't Prepare Managers For Real-Life Challenges (WSJ College
, 04/13/2007)
A new survey of international executives found that while the degree provides the strong general education that an executive needs, it doesn't teach the skills needed in the day-to-day operation of...
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Where's The "B" In B-Schools? (Businessweek.com
, 11/27/2006)
To our critics, including many successful managers, business schools have become little more than exercises in ticket punching for would-be consultants, taught by faculty who are more interested in impressing their academic colleagues than in confron
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An Executive Recruiter On the Long-Term M.B.A. (CollegeJournal.com, 08/25/2006)
If you're contemplating business school, you may be wondering whether the degree will pay off in the long run. A search professional shares his perspective.
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The ROI on Your MBA (Business 2.0
, 08/29/2005)
We survey the country's top business schools to tell you how good an investment they really are.
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How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant? (Harvard B-school, 07/04/2005)
In a recent Harvard Business Review article, Bennis and O'Toole raised questions about whether business schools in general have lost their relevance by following "the scientific model" of graduate sch
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Are Business Schools Failing the World? (nytimes.com, 06/19/2005)
JEFFREY E. GARTEN, 58, who is stepping down after 10 years as dean of the Yale School of Management, says he does not think American business schools are doing a good enough job
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Bringing Shakespeare to B-School (Businessweek.com
, 05/25/2005)
Two professors sound off on what's missing from most MBA programs -- from real-world relevance to the Bard's wisdom
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So, Is the MBA Degree Really Worth it? (About.com, 04/20/2005)
Every year hundreds of thousands of students apply to MBA programs. At any point of time, there are about 300,000 students actually pursuing an MBA degree in the US. What attracts these candidates?
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Does an MBA Matter in the Real Business World? (PR Web, 02/28/2005)
57% of Executives Say the Advanced Degree is Nice, But Not Necessary In TheLadders.com Survey
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What is the ROI on Acquiring an MBA? (About.com, 02/24/2005)
Today, the total cost of an MBA at a top US school is in the region of US $ 100,000. No wonder a lot of students want to know the Return-on-Investment that an MBA degree offers....
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Bad for business? (The Economist, 02/17/2005)
Business schools stand accused of being responsible for much that is wrong with corporate management today
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School for scandal (The Economist, 02/17/2005)
Is the MBA responsible for moral turpitude at the top?
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Will a Degree Lead To a Great Career? (CollegeJournal.com, 02/04/2005)
Wondering if additional education is the right path for you to follow? Here's how to determine if a diploma, or experience, would work best in your unique situation.
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Who Needs Harvard? (Slate, 01/12/2005)
Why big corporations are hiring fewer Ivy Leaguers
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An MBA is not a passport to success (Business Standard, 10/05/2004)
What they don't teach you at B-schools
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Can MBA graduates deliver in the real world? (Telegraph (uk), 09/06/2004)
Masters of the Universe are now viewed as joke figures who can't be trusted to send out a parcel, writes Stefan Stern
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Shadows lengthening over the MBA (Business Telegraph, 08/12/2004)
The City is turning its back on MBAs as the best means of ensuring its current deal makers become its future leaders, new research suggests
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Demand for MBA Is Down, Figures Show (Forbes
, 08/01/2004)
Is business school losing its buzz?
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Why an MBA May Not Be Worth It (fortune.com
, 06/14/2004)
One reader says he used his MBA to line his African gray parrot's birdcage
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The MBA Menace (FastCompany.com
, 05/19/2004)
Management theorist and critic Henry Mintzberg has a few choice words for all you newly minted MBAs: The way you were taught management is all wrong
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Management education (The Economist, 05/13/2004)
The failings of MBA programmes
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Can an MBA make you a CEO? (Indiatimes.com, 05/10/2004)
Many people believe that too many educational institutions are offering too many MBA programmes, and too many ‘would be managers’ are lapping them up in an effort to get themselves on the ‘fast track’.
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The big step forward (The Economist, 10/14/2003)
When is the best time to earn an MBA? Our MBA Outlook looks at the changing environment
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The End of Business Schools? Less Success Than Meets the Eye (AOMonline.org, 09/01/2002)
Data suggests that business schools are not very effective: Neither possessing an MBA degree nor grades earned in courses correlate with career success
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What's an MBA Really Worth? (Business 2.0
, 07/01/2002)
It will cost more than $100,000 to earn a degree at an elite business school. Just one problem: There's little real evidence that it will enhance your career.
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What B-School Didn't Teach Me (MBA jungle, 05/03/2002)
Craig Barrett, Roy Smith, and Anita Roddick share their hard-won lessons from the salaried world.
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Anatomy of a CEO (chiefexecutive.net
, 04/01/2002)
The uphill trek traveled by top CEOs says much about what it takes to make it to the top today-and how that may change in the future. Survey shows consulting experience and MBAs are out; youth is in
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Why MBAs Aren't Everything (chiefexecutive.net
, 02/01/2002)
More and more CEOs are coming into the corner office with an MBA as part of their portfolio. Yet more than 60 percent still feel that the degree is unnecessary and, in some cases, even a detriment.
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MBA no longer a ticket to higher salary (PersonnelToday.com, 01/09/2002)
although salaries increase on average 18 per cent upon completion of an MBA course, the average salary of an MBA within a few years of graduation is now only £55,100 in comparison to £64,000 just three years ago
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B-School Isn't Always The Right Path to Take (CollegeJournal.com, 03/01/2001)
To M.B.A. or not to M.B.A? That is the question
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Do MBAs Make Better CEOs? Sorry Dubya, It Ain't Necessarily So (fortune.com
, 02/01/2001)
Two experts argue that the MBA is heavy on the 'B' and light on the 'A'--teaching business functions, not the practice of administering.
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Why Business Schools Are a Bust (inc.com
, 01/01/2000)
Book Review: Gravy Training - Inside the Business of Business Schools
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How to succeed in business without an M.B.A. (Forbes
, 01/26/1998)
What Worrying Top Executives
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BOOKS
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 Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA
by Peter Robinson
|  Year One: An Intimate Look Inside Harvard Business School
by Robert Reid
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Gospel According to the Harvard Business School
by Peter Cohen
|  Managers Not MBAs : A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development
by Henry Mintzberg
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