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The global economy is in turmoil but Nigel Banister, Chief Global Officer of Manchester Business School (MBS), explains why it is very timely to embark on an MBA now.
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Barbara Bierach - 01-25-2011
What do the British foreign secretary William Hague, former US treasury secretary Hank Paulson and Indian home affairs minister P. Chidambaram have in common? They are all MBA graduates who have reached public office. And they are not the only ones, reports Britain’s Financial Times.
Entrepreneurs: Do they really need a Business School?
Barbara Bierach - 10-19-2009
The world is full of famous entrepreneurs from Steve Jobs to Bill Gates and Richard Branson or Martha Stewart. But few of them have done more in a business school than “to deliver a speech”, muses “The Economist” about the belief held by those same schools that they can teach entrepreneurship. After all, many in the business community suspect that the impulse to start and run a business has more to do with genetics than classroom experience. A recent study now confirms these intuitive beliefs.