Tag Archives: Stanford

December 11, 2008

Yale SOM to Build Cutting-Edge New Campus

The lagging economy has put some important university expansion projects on hold, but Yale’s School of Management (SOM) will get its new campus, Yale Daily News reports. The London-based architecture firm Foster + Partners unveiled … →

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October 15, 2008

Financial Crisis Creates Fresh Case Studies

The upheaval on Wall Street is sending people back to B-school in droves, but according to Benjamin Pimentel’s recent piece in MarketWatch, professors see a silver lining to this financial crisis: case studies are already … →

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July 1, 2008

Tuesday Tips – Stanford GSB Essays

Overall, as the Stanford GSB states on their website, adcom reads “the essays to get to know you as a person and to learn about the ideas and interests that motivate you.” As in all … →

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April 29, 2008

MBA Ideas at Work

Columbia’s Professor Nachum Sicherman noticed that dancers often gather outside to smoke after performances. As he put it: “the contradiction of seeing a person smoke who you would assume puts a high premium on staying … →

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April 15, 2008

MBA goes green…

Low-impact, zero effluent, fully sustainable. What used to be a fringe obsession has become firmly entrenched in the mainstream, to wit, environmental awareness. At this point, it is hard to imagine folks who haven’t at … →

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April 8, 2008

U.S. News & World Report Rankings 2009

U.S. News & World Report recently released its best business schools 2009 rankings. No big surprise – HBS, Stanford GSB, Wharton, MIT Sloan, University of Chicago, and Kellogg topped the charts. As compared with last … →

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