Perspectives

Interns who want to get a job must tell their employer who they are; what they stand for; and the extent to which all this is congruent with the values and culture of the firm, says Robert F. Bruner, Dean of Darden School of Business.

Based in Abu Dhabi, Margit Gabriele Müller is the head of the world’s most important health care center for birds of prey. Her MBA helps her do her job.

More women are heading to business school than ever before, reports “Forbes”. According to numbers released last year by the US Department of Education, women received 44 per cent of all MBAs in 2007, a 75 per cent increase from a decade earlier.

In addition to their diplomas, foreign students in the U.S. should be handed a green card, too, suggest Yash Gupta, dean of John Hopkins University’s newly founded Carey Business School in Baltimore.

The ESMT (European School of Management and Technology) in Berlin will award two more full scholarships for MBA students and thus increases the number of scholarships to 19.

International students are vital to many MBA programs. Often they even make up more than two thirds of the class. In the ups and downs of the financial crisis it seems that high educational standards, top-rankings and a prestigious name – the standard bait for ambitious overseas applications - have become ad nauseam. It’s work visa that applicants are interested in.

GMAC poll finds 70 percent of employers expect business to improve in 2010.

Publications from the “New York Times” to “Rolling Stone” have criticized Goldman Sachs Group for trading in financial instruments that helped trigger the global economic crisis. They blame Goldman Sachs for contributing to the worst credit squeeze since the Great Depression, which has cost financial companies $1.7 trillion in losses worldwide since 2007.

Where you graduate directly affects your career prospects and earning potential. Yet, in terms of maximising the value of an MBA, when you graduate may be just as important, reports the “Financial Times”. The class of 2009 hit tough times as many companies were looking to shrink head counts.

Lukas Neckermann, MBA graduate from the Stern School of Business and Director of the Allianz Management Institute, on the benefits of an MBA degree.

While both the overall demand for MBA graduates and their salaries have remained constant in many markets, employers prefer giving jobs to graduates with career experience. This was the result of a survey of over 700 companies by consulting firm QS TopMBA.

Why do some geographic areas — such as California’s Silicon Valley — produce so many entrepreneurial companies? The answer may be workplace peers. Working with former entrepreneurs makes individuals more likely to start their own businesses, says Professor Jesper Sørensen of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans - and sometimes life gets in the way of business school. Students come across an once-in-a-lifetime job opportunity, get pregnant, or someone in their family falls seriously ill. Most schools know this and allow them to come back.

Potential students have always pondered the value of the MBA. But in this economic downturn—with more college graduates struggling with both unemployment and student loan debt—the question has added urgency: What’s an MBA worth?

The MBA Tour has contributed to a new scholarship fund. Students who attended an MBA Tour event and are nominated by a business school are eligible.

Good business schools offer their MBA students extensive assistance in career planning and job hunting. The breadth of services offered extends to individual interview training sessions and on-campus recruiting events.