🔒 The end of the traditional MBA – The Wall Street Journal
Applications to traditional MBA programs have languished in a strong US job market, declining last year even at Harvard Business School.
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Why business can be a force for good in SA – INSEAD’s Ilian Mihov
INSEAD’s Ilian Mihov explains why business can be and, in many ways, already is a major force for good in the world, while on a trip to South Africa.
🔒 Which MBA? No sign of SA universities in top 20 league table
South African MBA programmes, run by SA institutions and in conjunction with universities from elsewhere, don’t feature at the top of the world rankings.
Meet Barry van Zyl: Among world’s top rock ‘n rollers, he’s acing an MBA.
Alec Hogg asked Barry van Zyl to share the reasons why he’s tackling an MBA at this stage of his life – a qualification he’s been acing by the way.
MBAs like sexy; avoiding job-creating sectors
Manufacturing is like the boyfriend America will finally settle down with: It may not be the sexiest industry, but it sure is dependable. Yet business schools, a breeding ground for the next crop of chief executives, are churning out a minuscule number of graduates who want to make their money in manufacturing. Just 4 percent of all MBAs who graduated last year took jobs in the industry.
Matthew Lester: Lifelong learning – part-time MBA with tax benefits
By Matthew Lester It is now five years since the depths of the global credit crunch. The rot may have been checked but world prosperity seems to still be a long way off. In the aftermath of the global credit crunch the business environment has been subject to substantial reform across a very broad spectrum. … Read more
GIBS remains in its top spot as the number one African and South African Business School
The University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) has again taken the top ranking spot among South African and African business schools in the annual UK Financial Times Executive Education rankings announced today. The Financial Times survey presents a global benchmark for providers of executive education and GIBS has now been ranked among … Read more
Business education: 10 things you probably won’t be taught in business school
Before you decide to sign up for an MBA or any other type of business education to help you get ahead in 2014, remember this: there are many important business tips you won’t hear at a business school. So says dynamic young digital media company president Nick Santillo, in this thought-provoking piece on how to … Read more
SA’s top two schools extend lead in annual ranking of the best MBA course
The Financial Mail’s annual MBA issue, currently on the shop’s shelves, is the year’s best seller. That emerged in this interview Gugulethu Mfuphi and I had today with the magazine’s David Furlonger and GIBS’s Dr Nicola Kleyn. Furlonger told me off air that it’s not only potential students and parents who grab the issue, but … Read more