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Others say business schools do not train students properly to understand the limitations of the financial models used in the classroom.

THIS has been a year of sackcloth and ashes for the world's business schools.

In contrast, only a small proportion of business schools seem to agree that this is the case.

At the other end of the spectrum, some business schools teach the programme in less than a year.

After a year of economic turmoil and academic trauma, most business schools seem to have become paralysed.

Although these kind of degrees are popular in Europe, Fuqua is one of the few business schools in the US to launch such a programme.

Business schools also find it easy to be businesslike about large donations.

In uncertain economic times business schools often enjoy something of a popularity boom.

Now, though, business schools throughout Asia are trying to become more competitive with the top schools in the U. S. and Europe.

When you think of the world's best business schools, you inevitably think of two great rivals: Harvard and Stanford.

Ironically, even leading business schools across the country today are beginning to realize it.

The top US and European business schools are not the only ones to be spreading their wings.

Business schools are trying to improve their courses inorder to produce better graduates.

But such an exciting start was often taken no further, at least in the setting of the standalone business schools.

Just a few years ago, business schools viewed social media as a distraction.

As its sponsorship of Chinese business schools shows, Goldman is trying to raise a new generation of local leaders.

After analysing the top business schools, I came to the conclusion that LBS would prepare me better than any other institution.

Most of these deals are the product of a style of thought popular in business schools and consultancies .

Mr Bruner is one of the authors of an AACSB study on the state of business schools.

How could I make a shortlist, when all 50-plus business schools claimed to be "one of the best programmes" ?

Business schools around the globe are facing a faculty shortage within the next decade, according to new statistics.

The agency put out a request to business schools to formulate proposals for a programme on change management.

"We see from one year to the next that business schools are more able to provide these (global managers). "

"To compete in Europe and particularly with the big business schools in Spain, we needed a strong brand and critical mass. "

It is too much to expect business schools to inculcate ethical thoughtfulness in those who failed to acquire it at home.

Second, law schools seem to have an impact on their own profession that business schools cannot match.

Of course entrepreneurship, at least according to the business schools, has moved on in more than just its international aspect.

Businessweek last week reported that Chinese women are driving up enrollment at business schools across the United States.

That includes business schools that have been hoping to train the next generation of nuclear leaders.

No wonder some of the world's most prominent business schools are eyeing China as the next educational frontier.

Britain gives graduates of the world's top 50 business schools an automatic right to work in the country for a year.

LBS and Columbia are not the only business schools to recognise the benefit of cross-continental alliances.

At the heart of the debate is the degree of autonomy enjoyed by these business schools.

Pantaloon, a huge Indian retailer that is opening new shops at the rate of one a week, invests in local business schools.

"Most American business schools have seen Asia as a place to sell education, not as somewhere you could learn something. "

One of the world's leading business schools, INSEAD's main differentiation factor lies in its global perspective and cultural diversity.

Now Asian business schools are recruiting Western applicants as the nations' economies prosper, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Thus, argued Ghoshal, "business schools have actively freed their students from any sense of moral responsibility" .

Though these degrees were traditionally the preserve of European business schools, the concept is gaining traction around the globe.

Professors at business schools around the US have developed courses looking specifically at what caused the financial meltdown.

And the global financial crisis has put pressure on business schools to instill a greater sense of responsibility in their graduates.

Widely admired for its global and cutting-edge curriculum, Columbia Business School is one of the leading business schools in the world.

As a company with 75 employees, such a welcome at the US's top business schools is a novel experience.

With only a handful of exceptions, business schools from outside Europe and North America have failed to make an impact on the world stage.

That promise is particularly critical at business schools, where graduates expect a quick financial payoff as well as an education.

Before business schools were established there was a productive tradition of business research.

Business schools are beginning to take up this challenge.

Second, business schools have not effectively marketed management PhDs as a credential that leads to a lucrative career.

The devaluation of endowments is one of three financial pitfalls for business schools, particularly those in the US.

But the onus appears to be on business schools to convince the CHE the MBA should be treated as a masters.

A year on, the oath has more than 4, 000 signatories from 300 business schools around the world but the wording has changed.

It claims to be the source of four-fifths of the case-study materials used in the world's leading business schools.

A cursory glance over the statistics for the top business schools shows that 60 per cent or more of the admitted class are male.

This not only matters in its own right (business schools are a big business and a training ground for the global elite).

A shakeout of mid-ranking business schools would hurt the finances of a lot of universities, which would be nasty.

This indicates that top Chinese business schools have begun to position themselves in the global business education market.

He argues that if the established US business schools do not change then they will be outstripped by rookie rivals, particularly in Asia.

But the clash of rankings also has a bright side: it underlines the fact that there are different ways in which business schools can excel.

A degree will enable you to apply for teaching positions in various vocational and business schools.

Reaching out to deans, department chairs, and senior scholars of business schools to obtain support for expanding IACMR memberships.

In recent years, western business schools have played host to a large number of ambitious young Chinese professionals.

But perhaps the best place to forge these relationships is in business schools, particularly MBA programs.

Data gathered by the FT from business schools point to a younger but growing executive education market in Latin America.

As China's business schools are keen to go global, international accreditation bodies are going to China.

Over the years, it has become a staple at business schools and corporate training programs worldwide.

Business schools can describe what innovative companies have done: Harvard's case study method does just that.

Prof Weber also anticipates that there will be some business schools that will suffer during the current economic cycle.

Of these, six are from US universities, four from Indian business schools and two from European schools.

If there is one thing business schools believe they are good at, it is teaching companies how to implement change in their organizations.

Social-entrepreneurship conferences are invariably the best attended events for students at leading business schools.

Two of Europe's top ten business schools are in Spain; Zara, one of the world's fastest-growing retailers, is based in Galicia.

These famous flops are reduced to punch lines, or trotted out as cautionary tales in boardrooms and business schools across the country.

He says personal greed and unethical lending practices were the cause of the problem, not business schools.

Corporate clients are also less likely to fly their managers to overseas business schools, now requiring the professors to travel instead.

A global super league of business schools is emerging, which includes several in Europe and Asia as well as America.

In business schools you teach from the specific to the general. In pre-experience programmes you go the other way round.

And a recent list of Europe's top ten business schools featured seven French establishments.

Remember that top business schools are looking for world-class talent regardless of field, and that they value diversity.

On a practical level, it has hampered the IIMs in their efforts to become world-class business schools.

Mr Banister argues that business schools have been slow to adopt technology and says the problem lies with the professors, not the students.

Business schools are also getting into the act by suggesting students pack some lightweight business books into their luggage this summer.

Business schools such as the IIMA have long stood out in a country whose basic education is a shambles.

Nonsense! The business schools measure your ability through a test called GMAT.

In typical western business schools a presentation merely whets the appetite of the argumentative and eager students watching.

And for those targeting investment banking, top business schools certainly offer a springboard.

Hult student, Ahmad Ashkar, created the challenge for teams from business schools around the world.

He says business schools are teaching courses on business ethics and the impact of business practices to a new generation of MBA students.

Business schools should be at the centre of this merging of the sectors.

China's booming economy presents many opportunities to Western business schools, as well as some unique challenges.

Now, airfares are more like Coca-Cola, says Rob Britton, a former American Airlines executive who now lectures at business schools.

Business schools have been battered by criticism for the role they played in the global financial meltdown.

In the UK the business schools at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge have taken a similar stance, and Henley will follow this lead.

Creativity has been as relatively unimportant to business schools as it has to other organisations.

Teaching location plays a role in the fortunes of business schools as they increasingly take programmes to clients.

This leads Prof Tiffany to argue that executive MBA programmes are becoming the flagships for the business schools.

For years, Asians interested in entering the best business schools had little choice but to head to the West.

But the business schools speak with one voice when they say that the real problem occurs much earlier in the education system.

Business schools as well as training companies are seeing increasing demand from Asia, in particular China.

They want business schools to take more risks and produce graduates capable of confronting the world's problems.

International campuses and programmes may be de rigueur for many leading global universities and business schools.

If the business schools today still have great professors like that, then they are in a position to do great good.

This months gyrating share prices on stock exchanges across the globe could end panic through the world of business schools.

"China is the fastest growing market and there is a lack of managerial-level people. Their business schools have to mature, " he says.

BUSINESS schools are generally reckoned to be pretty recession proof.

To be sure, not all business schools are transforming their student-body profiles.

And there are hopeful signs in the developed economies, too, to be found in what is perhaps an unexpected quarter: the business schools.

Prof Mintzberg's views on management education have long been controversial in business schools circles, but have often proven prescient.

An organization of business schools, the Graduate Management Admission Council, is responsible for the GMAT.

Today's moguls are mobbed, not just by starlets anxious for parts, but by graduates of the finest business schools anxious for fees.

HKUST also has one of the best business schools in Asia.

So, what should the many schools worldwide, including several leading business schools, hosting quant finance programmes do?

Business schools pride themselves on being ahead of the curve when it comes to management theory and innovation.

He had also been working to develop Western-style graduate business schools and executive management education programs.

A second popular argument is that business schools need to put more emphasis on business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR).

That's where some business schools are starting to step in, and students are responding.

In my 20 years in business schools, I've never experienced a curriculum development like this.

Within the university world, business schools suffer from a long-standing inferiority complex.

Africa is rapidly becoming the "new China" for business schools that are looking to expand and are seeking fresh course material.

More widely, Prof Jones has strong views on some of the pervading issues in business schools.

One silver lining: For top students, getting into the elite business schools may not be any harder.

We listened to the charge that business schools were guilty of short-term thinking, especially when evaluating leadership.

Knowledge-sharing partnerships with business schools are a good way for NGOs to develop too, says Mr Park.

"Business schools need to be at the forefront of this, " he says.

Typical of the case-study method used by business schools, many have looked to 'replicate' its good practices.

That is a narrower question of whether business schools can agree on what they should teach.

Demand for business education is enormous, and business schools from across the world are rushing to tap it.

The bottom line is that some business schools know they are a hot date and do not want to appear easy.

"This is for a very simple reason: the demand for business schools is correlated with [the size of] GDP. "

Business schools recognise that it is the ability to reach potential students that makes investment worthwhile.

I approve of business schools carrying out research, but it should be practical, not ivory tower.

Is time running out for business schools that aren't quite elite?

But for those who chose Canadian business schools the prospects of landing work are more optimistic.

So how can business schools differentiate themselves from management consultancies?

Both India and China will soon have business schools considered as equal to the established giants of the West.

Others continued on in vocational training schools in electronics, medical services, or business schools.

According to Prof Greyser, more sports teams and leagues need to apply the kind of management principles taught in business schools.

In the business arena, mergers and acquisitions are commonplace; not so in the realm of business schools.

A change in strategy in many business schools has also helped promote women, says Alice Guilhon, dean of Skema.

Indeed, many business schools professors have modified their curriculums to address issues in the financial crisis.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

While business schools in Asia saw a bump in GMAT scores, the demand for advanced business education is pushing beyond the South Pacific.

Mr Lyons reckons that business schools have long trailed behind leading companies in managing their internal culture.

Unfortunately there are too many business schools churning out graduates with an inferior education.

Business schools with specialised healthcare programmes have recently seen a marked rise in applicants.

Business schools, in particular, are accepting more Chinese and international students.

To be sure, some business schools have stuck with tried-and-true favorites.

The fallout from the financial crisis is already starting to echo through the halls of the world's business schools.

This topic could be and is a full semester course at some business schools.

He visited 18 business schools worldwide before deciding how he wanted the Moscow school to be run.

Getting a foot in the door is key for many business schools.

For the best business schools, these forms are a marathon.

Business schools are highly competitive and have been criticised for fostering a "culture of greed" in MBA programmes.

Business schools bring out many graduates with high financial skills through bilingual education.

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business was among the first business schools to branch out beyond the traditional essay.

Business schools aren't increasing their class sizes to accommodate the anticipated surge in applications.

Business schools in developing nations are getting more attention from both domestic and foreign students.

Many business schools (Harvard perhaps best known among them) either base their curriculum on the case method or use it in some courses.

My contribution was in a column in 2008, entitled "Why business ignores the business schools" .

As business schools across Asia mature, experts say quality programmes will be differentiated from fly-by-night operations.

In all the finger-pointing, one party has escaped with less attention than deserved - business schools.

Many of the younger businessmen and bankers in Brazil have postgraduate qualifications from American business schools.

Outside work, he is also teaching internet retail and internet marketing as a guest professor in colleges and business schools.

Many of the country's leading business schools, including Duke's, have been emphasizing honesty and ethical conduct.

Until recently the field was dominated by American business schools teaching American examples.

The world's great business schools have replaced Oxbridge as the nurseries of the global elite.

I am also suspicious of quite a few faculty in business schools whom I've met or read about.

But business schools can charge more for MBAs than higher education establishments can charge for anything else.

Confucian Business Schools will set classes in all places, and will recruit students locally on CNB Chinese Business course.

I am told entrepreneurial studies is one of the growth areas at business schools.

And for most business schools, there is also only a single message: rethink your business model if you want to survive.

Regrettably, these requirements are extremely weak in the social sciences and business schools.

The council presents reasons why business schools should use the GMAT instead of the Graduate Record Examinations, or GRE.

Now, they've made headway into business schools throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and North and South America.

Three ideas taught in business schools have much to answer for.

US business schools have changed in other ways too, particularly in their embrace of non-US students and faculty.

So how is ethical behaviour to be taught in Asian business schools?

Because most US business schools are part of a university, they are well placed to launch joint programmes. "Organisationally it' "

THE challenges facing business schools and companies are inextricably linked.

Increasingly, business schools are offering EMBA programmes in new locations.

Admissions staff at top business schools know when candidates are cutting corners, says Richmond.

When Scott Snyder decided to get an MBA, he didn't consider US business schools.

The authors are all long established teachers of marketing in well regarded business schools.

It may seem far out, but there are similar classes at business schools across the country.

Business schools are offering a greater variety of courses taught in a greater variety of ways than ever before.

not so in Italy, where liberal economic ideas go almost unvoiced outside business schools.

Business schools are as consistent as their students when it comes to delivering these three key goals.

But don't we have business schools? Aren't you encouraging me to go to business school for my master's degree?

A class of 1997 graduate of Iese in Barcelona, he understood how case studies were used in business schools.

The rise of non-US business schools in the ranking may be as attributable to world politics as to educational excellence.

Two other leading business schools in Singapore have also recently appointed top professors from the US.

What were UK business schools doing to address the issues of productivity and regional development?

In this sense, I believe there is always the option for people to attend business schools.

Business schools could perhaps come up with other ways of driving home the consequences of bad behaviour.

These days this emphasis on customer support is permeating even the most academic of business schools.

In the US and Europe, business schools stand accused of contributing to the global financial crisis.

But these days European schools are facing a similar challenge from business schools in other regions.

Most faculty members have taught in world renowned business schools before joining CEIBS.

Students from the public health and business schools offered advice.

Do business schools want to be relevant to business or value business experience?

The US terrorist attacks in September 2001 devastated US business schools, reducing both domestic and overseas applicants.

Business schools are not professional schools . They are incubators for business leadership .

S. -born MBAs. "The young and smart from top U. S. business schools have helped provide fresh perspectives to our company, " says Kim.

Moreover, the flexibility will enable business schools to retain their star players.

The shortage presents a big problem for business schools, particularly those concerned about maintaining accreditation, says Mr Fernandes.

These business schools are investing heavily in their podcast delivery.

Emerging-market countries are investing heavily in business schools.

Business schools have also struggled to make their courses less theoretical.

"Business schools have not kept up with the huge demand of students who are more socially aware. "

This leaves one common, final defence: what business schools are doing works. The growth in student numbers has been huge.

Business schools were treated as poor relations by other professional schools.

Business schools are by definition multi-disciplinary schools.

In Mr. Hubbard's view, business schools must prepare students with a broader education in order to thwart an economic meltdown.

Most European business schools are already much more globalised than HBS.

Prof Hartigan believes that social entrepreneurs are not born at business schools.

Yet business schools have an important asset: they are remarkably flexible compared with the rest of academia.

It also matters because the rest of academia is likely to follow where business schools have led.

That may change with the growing focus on entrepreneurship in business schools.

The ruling may encourage more overseas students to apply to Canadian business schools.

"Now business schools are at the centre of the university, " he says.

Many American business schools have some type of financial aid, and you should investigate that when applying to any school.

Many business schools started experimenting with "live case studies" long ago: the late C.

Thecounsilscouncil presents reasons why business schools should use the GMAT instead of the Graduate RecordExaminationExaminations, or GRE.

Some of the undergraduate business students are struggling to go to preeminent business schools.

"We in business schools often act like technicians in the way we conceptualise and teach our topics of study, " he laments.

This creates a need for managers who are comfortable with data, but statistics courses in business schools are not popular.

Business schools are obsessive about measurement.

Ask for the drastic overhaul of business schools (and stop giving funding).

Most importantly, it says the GMAT was designed by business schools for business schools.

Elite business schools still look like a fair deal.

The M. B. A. program Mr. Snyder inherits at Yale pales in size and scope to many other elite business schools.

The New York Times recently asked Macy's chief executive: "Anything you would like business schools to teach more? "

Second, inter-systems experts are not in business schools.

Business schools are under the microscope again, their relevance and value questioned in many quarters.

Yet, data collated from the FT rankings show that any impact felt by business schools was only short term.

"VALUES " are all the rage at business schools nowadays .

Prof Thomas predicts that other Asian countries will invest in business schools.

Yet business schools have always wrestled with how best to help students acquire this skill .

By ignoring the "messiness" of complex systems, many in business schools are guilty of solving wrong problems precisely.

Recent turmoil in the financial markets has thrown the spotlight on business schools.

Business schools thus need to scour the globe for role models, innovative ideas and the best students.

The fortunes of business schools and stock markets are inextricably linked.

Throughout this affair the business schools played the role of cupid.

To that end, business schools are creating new execed courses in the space of weeks or months.

However, not all business schools charge top-of-the-range prices.

Some business schools have built campuses on the other side of the world. INSEAD, a French school, has led the way.

This goes much deeper than networking, the much-cited benefit of business schools.

A total of 156 business schools that met the criteria for participation have been included.

Tesco is careful when selecting business schools to work with.

Lower-ranked business schools are already finding it harder to fill their places.

The spectre of faculty shortage continues to haunt business schools.