Welcome back to our weekly series, #ICYMI: MetroMBA Trends, where we round-up the hottest posts from the past week (in case you missed them). So, without further ado, here are the top 5 posts:
African American CEOs and their MBA Alma Mater
As Black History month nears its conclusion we thought we’d take a look at some MBA-holding African Americans who have had the biggest impact over the last twenty years. As the number of African Americans and other minorities graduating from MBA programs continues to rise, we hope that the business leaders listed below will serve as a source of inspiration and guidance to these new graduates.
MIT Sloan Alum’s App Combats Hiring Biases
n an interview conducted for a recent press release published by MIT Sloan, alumna Stephane Lampkin (MBA ’13) discussed Blendoor, an innovative new mobile app she designed to counteract hidden hiring biases related to gender and race.
Decline of the Unicorns (A Startup Tale)
In advance of his upcoming course, ‘How to Finance and Grow Your Startup – Without VC,’ set to start 12 April 2016, London Business School’s blog recently spoke with Management Practice in Marketing and Entrepreneurship Professor John Mullins to gain insight into why we are starting to see a sharp decline in the value of so-called “unicorn” start-ups.
How Emerging Market Brands Will Go Global
Last week, Columbia published an article by Sharon Kahn on its business school’s blog, which discussed strategies that emerging markets would do well to consider when raising global awareness of homegrown mass consumer brands.
UC Berkeley Professor Researches “Soft Power”
A UC Berkeley Haas School of Business professor recently published his research on “soft power” which is the phenomenon of global influence in the form of pop cultural assets. It is in contrast to “hard power” which is a country’s military or economic might.