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The Peter and Alice von Loesecke Scholarship Foundation will award two 20,000 USD scholarships for candidates who best exemplifies the criteria for the award and continues to demonstrate during their MBA studies an interest in pursuing those objectives.

IE Business School and Brown University announce the launch of the IE Brown Executive MBA program that integrates the innovative approach to management education at IE Business School with Brown University’s excellence in the humanities, social, biological, and physical sciences.

With fewer jobs to fill and employers reluctant to boost travel budgets for on-campus recruiting, business schools are getting creative about helping students land jobs.

Next to ethics sustainability is probably one of the most used buzzwords at many business schools. A growing number of Sustainable or Green MBAs are popping up around the world in an attempt to educate business students on these issues. Now a new book provides information and tips for those interested in this topic.

The 1st European MBA Career Fair takes place in Berlin on April 26 and will include six business schools from wider Europe.

The case of the questionable Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) is a lesson about the failures of the media and business schools. It is not only about clarification, responsibilities and ethics – it is about profit. The interests of potential MBA students get left by the wayside.

Mahesh Sarma, editor at Careers360, talks about IIPM and the role of business schools, media and politics and why a small magazine started to write the truth.

When it came to the location for its MBA program, the Münchner Marketing Akademie came up with a special delicacy. Teaching takes place within the space of star chef Alfons Schuhbeck’s gourmet restaurant. But this isn’t the program’s only special trait.

Criticism of the MBA is always well-received in Germany, where the MBA concept and knowledge about it is still very marginal.

MBA grads from the Insead Business School had fewer problems than feared when it came to their job search. 74 percent already had a job offer one month after graduation. Job preferences, however, shifted significantly.

As business schools in the US and Europe are still struggling to find good jobs for their MBA graduates, the S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) in Mumbai, India, reports a 100% placement of its graduates.

A new report, titled Tomorrow’s MBA, has found that prospective students are still keen on the MBA qualification despite its reputation taking a knock during the banking crisis. However, asked which academic content was important to them as part of an MBA study, respondents put Ethics in the bottom 4 out of 30 possible elements.

When two sexologists brainstormed with a group of MBA students to examine connections between sexuality and leadership the discussions probably got quite heated. However, the results of this experiment are rather lukewarm than hot stuff.

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.

Almost since their inception more than 100 years ago, the death of business schools and MBAs has been predicted to be imminent. Stuck between business that think them academic, in the derogatory not the complimentary sense, and universities that think them unacademic, in an equally derogatory sense, it is not surprising that business schools periodically suffer serious bouts of self‐doubt.