 |
Millennials are less attracted by old fashioned management styles and traditional industries. Therefore they love to work for innovative technology companies. With such pulling power, do the most competitive high-tech firms still have to pay top salaries to attract the best candidates?
peshkova / fotolia
The coming wave of digital disruption |
All disruption is defined as industry-wide change, forcing a significant shift in profitability from one prevailing business model to another. The new model typically provides...
Romaine / wikimedia
Maastricht School of Management taps into technology trend |
The Netherlands’ Maastricht School of Management has overhauled its full-time MBA course and now offers a focus on tech innovation. The program integrates a one-week Innovation...
The Lisbon
The Lisbon MBA starts new Executive MBA programme |
The Lisbon MBA – a joint programme between Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics and Nova SBE – launched a new Executive MBA programme in partnership with MIT Sloan...
Michigan’s Ross
The future of MBA education |
Scott DeRue, the dean of University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, claims the old model of business school education is gone. It’s no longer good enough to sequester...
Pixabay
FT’s global MBA ranking 2018 – an analysis |
Asian business schools are gaining more and more importance. And ten years after the world financial crisis two-year programmes are getting more attention than ever. These are some...
Pixabay
Leadership lessons from war |
War is never pleasant, but CEOs could learn a thing or two from Ukrainian military commanders, according to Sophia Opatska, vice rector for academic affairs at the Ukrainian...
Halfpoint / fotolia
Artificial intelligence and what it means for the workforce |
Artificial intelligence – or AI – won’t destroy the job market in the long run and it certainly won’t do so in 2018. That is one of the predictions of PwC's study on the impact of...
Pixabay
The fastest way to becoming a CEO |
How to become a CEO? Attend elite MBA programmes, land high-powered jobs right out of school at prestigious firms, and climb the ladder straight to the top, carefully avoiding...
Pixabay
Switzerland is the most talent competitive country – again |
Switzerland has been crowned the most talent competitive country in the world in this year’s Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI). It trumps due to cognitive diversity....
zapp2photo / fotolia
Artificial intelligence tools give MBA students interview feedback |
New artificial intelligence (AI) tools help MBA students prepare for job interviews. The feedback tool unites proprietary analytics with expert analysis to give each student...
Pixabay
What makes a business school attractive to women? |
Gender balance in business schools is steadily improving, but we are still not looking at an equal playing ground for women. The Financial Times has analysed the reasons behind...
Myleen Hollero / Wikimedia Foundation
Advice on how to get the most out of an MBA programme |
What advice do MBA graduates from top business schools have for prospective MBA students? This question was asked on the knowledge platform Quora and even made it into a Forbes...
Simppi20
Business school tries to spruce up family businesses |
Family-owned businesses often face special challenges. Their team leaders are often related to each other and private issues play into professional ones. One business school offers...
Pixabay
Insider knowledge: How MBA degrees rank according to recruiters |
MBA rankings can only give a limited picture of the success of business schools and MBA education. Which school is the right one for an individual student varies by the career he...
Lynda Gratton
Leadership trends to look out for in 2018 |
No one has a fool-proof crystal ball, but some of London Business School’s finest minds are looking ahead to 2018 and sharing their ideas. Here is what they have to say in regards...
Pixabay
Executive MBA versus MBA |
At a certain age and with a certain experience and position, an Executive MBA is an option to develop a career further as is the traditional MBA. The London School of Business &...
Halfpoint / fotolia
How will we work in 2030? |
Megatrends such as digitization, the rise of automation, and shifting demographics are disrupting the way we work, and the way companies relate to workers.
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Special report: Sustainability as the future key to success |
The Swiss professor Stefan Schaltegger once founded the world’s first MBA in Sustainability Management. 15 years have passed and Schaltegger still laments that sustainability...
Alibaba
Alibaba has started to hire MBAs, too |
Alibaba is China's Ebay, Alibaba's payment system Alipay its Paypal. Founder Jack Ma brought e-commerce to everyone. When it comes to hiring senior executives, though, his company...
Andrey Popov / fotolia
How to lead change |
Studies picking global senior executives' brains on change management say that the success rate of transformational initiatives is not much above 50 per cent. This is worrisome...
Jakub Jirsák / fotolia
Guidance for CEOs in transition |
Exceptional CEOs are 58 per cent more likely to conduct a strategic review and 48 per cent less likely to conduct an organisational redesign. That is the result of consultancy...
Pixabay
Microsoft is hiring big from US business schools |
The US-tech company Microsoft is on a recruiting spree from business schools according to the Financial Times. In 2017, Microsoft hired about 30 per cent more MBAs than last year,...
beeboys / fotoliaa
Executive MBA salaries on the rise |
A recent Executive MBA Council survey showed that Executive MBAs are increasingly paying off financially as well as career wise. The survey found increased compensation, new...
Patrick Daxenbichler / fotolia
UT advice: International programmes that enhance careers |
The University of Texas at Austin has published advice on which international programmes will advance MBA students' career outlook. Amongst them are programmes in Australia,...
SeanPavonePhoto / fotolia
Spotlight on the South Korean MBA |
South Korea doesn’t sound like the obvious option for MBA students, but business schools see considerable interest from international students with 30 per cent of students coming...
Stanford Graduate Business School
Stanford graduates the most satisfied |
Graduates from Stanford Graduate School of Business are the happiest after graduation according to a recent Forbes survey. The magazine’s analysis of alumni found that despite...
creuxnoir / fotolia
Economist ranking: US-schools dominate over European schools |
The Economist is well known for rankings that come with a twist. The 2017 full time MBA ranking is no exception, with Northwestern Kellogg being the new winner and 27 schools...
rh2010 / fotolia
More women take up EMBA programmes |
The Executive MBA Council (EMBAC) reports that almost a third of Executive MBA students are now women, a number which has increased annually over a six-year period. According to...
pathdoc / fotolia
Language and gender roles |
Evidence suggests that word order can reinforce gender beliefs. This matters because language has the power to alter people’s viewpoints – if we choose our words with care. “His...
Teleos Leadership Institute
How to find happiness at work |
Upwards of two-thirds of us are either neutral in regards to our jobs, which means we don’t care, or we’re actively disengaged, according to figures from Gallup. Disengagement and...
Seite 3 von 9.
No time to
keep updated about
Business Schools, careers and
the international job market?
We sum up the relevant
reports from the press
Monthly and for free!
