Getting Paid: Highest MBA Salaries in San Francisco
San Franciso means many things to many people. Equal parts counter-cultural mecca, ground zero tech hub, haven for diversity, and real estate development nightmare, SF conjures images of Silicon Valley introverts and Haight-Ashbury hippies, as well as the high-earning Facebook employees who displace them.
New Sloan Executive Course Finds Ways To Maximize Your Platform Strategy
The MIT Sloan Newsroom recently dove into a new Sloan executive course that gives platform entrepreneurs strategies and tools to effectively “tackle the challenges of value creation and capture.”
Adapting to Disruption: Insights from the London Business School Strategy Summit
Each year, the London Business School hosts the Strategy Summit, a one-day event that brings together the leading thinkers and practitioners in business strategy. During the event, these leaders foster debate and generate actionable insights for the attendees. This year, the topic of discussion was “How the World’s Leading Companies are Adapting to Disruption,” and welcomed speakers such as:
- Costas Markides, a professor of strategy at LBS,
- Jean-Claude Biver, President of Watches at LVMH (a leader in luxury products)
When speaking about disruption in business, the summit focused on two strategies: defending the threat of disruption and attacking the disruptive opportunity. Continue reading…
Wharton Announces 2017 Graduation Speakers
The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business has announced its 2017 graduation speakers for the EMBA and MBA programs on both the Philadelphia and San Francisco campuses.
As in the past, Wharton’s ceremony will feature an exemplary roster of graduate alumni along with renowned faculty.
Ashridge Introduces Groundbreaking Research Project & Collaboration
Research is the heart of every business school. That’s why Ashridge Executive Education, has set up a collaboration network with innovative companies to change the global business landscape. The collaboration falls under the newly created Hult Realtime Research (HRR), which is a global market research engine. Its goal is to identify and test ideas, markets, competitors and business models for organizations. Continue reading…
Quinlan Professor Pens Paper About AirBnB’s Innovation
Loyola Quinlan School of Business management professor Arup Varma recently co-authored ‘AirBnB: Exciting Innovation or Passing Fad’, a paper that describes AirBnB’s groundbreaking, technology-fueled business model of “disruptive innovation.” Published in Tourism Management Perspectives, Varma co-wrote the place with Nenad Jukić, Clifford Shultz, Svetlozar Nestorov and Almir Pestek. Continue reading…
