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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.

The news that two consulting firms - AT Kearney and the group now known as Booz & Co - have been in merger talks is seen as a symbolic development: a sign that the industry has lost much of its former dominance, reports the Financial Times.

While waters are still rough for graduates seeking jobs, business schools have been pulling out all the stops to help their MBAs find jobs. Kelley School of Business at Indiana University even set up a Lonely Hearts Club.

New graduates of MBA and other graduate management education programs are contending with a tough job market that has made landing employment before graduation the exception rather than the norm.

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 Financial Times has published its new ranking on Executive Education. In the open enrolment programs Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia is at first place, followed by the Iese Business School in Spain and IMD in Switzerland.

For business-school students in the Class of 2010, finding a job has been a mixed experience.

The job market for new business school graduates remains difficult, but there are clear signs that employers are becoming increasingly confident about the economy—and more eager to hire - according to newly released data from the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC).

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.

HEC in Paris has signed an agreement with the Qatar Foundation to set up a new Executive Education and Research Centre in Qatars capital Doha and will offer its new designed Executive MBA there.

Asia is the fastest-growing region in the world for GMAT. Not only the number of prospective students shows a huge increase, also Asian business schools have become more attractive.

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.

The Faculty of Economics - School of Management, TUM - Technical University of Munich bundles and strengthens their training activities by establishing an Executive Education Center. Cooperation partner is the University of St.Gallen.

„Social media experience, a plus!“ This sentence has quietly sneaked into the requirements section of job offers targeting MBA graduates across all industries. And it’s not just the marketing positions - even analysts don’t get away without skills in social networks anymore.