Foster Ranks 1st in MBA Job Placement
How do you choose an MBA program? You might look at faculty, research, course work and alumni just to name a few. But what about job placement? Why attend an MBA program and spend all that time and money if you can’t improve your job situation afterward? Well, there’s great news for MBAs at University of Washington’s Foster School of Business. BusinessWeek recently named Foster as the number one school in job placement for the ‘Top 20 Full-Time MBAs in the U.S.’ Continue reading…
A Deeper Look at the 2016 Michigan Ross Employment Report
The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business earlier this month released its 2016 MBA Employment Report, and the results are nothing short of stellar.
MIT Sloan Lecturer Talks Digital Disruption and Future Monopolies
MIT Sloan recently published an article that rounds up the insights Constellation Research founder, principal analyst and chairman R “Ray” Wang imparted at the Innovative Leadership Series to students “looking to take on—and take over—an industry.”
Wang has had a front-row seat to the “digital disruption of the last decade” as he’s helped his big-name clients “navigate digital transformation.” According to Wang, “More than half of Fortune 500 companies lost money last year while more than half of the companies on the list since 2000 are gone—merged, acquired, bankrupt, or off the list.”
Wang suggests that the reason many companies fail has to do with a focus on “operational efficiency.” Fortune 500 companies, Wang argues, should be asking themselves the tough existential questions related to their mission and business model to help them “figure out the products, the services, the insights, the experiences and outcomes.”
The second major piece of advice Wang offered related to the benefits of data. Simply put: “Data leads to information that can be shared with customers for a fee, in an effort to provide a better service. And it doesn’t cost a lot of money to implement.”
Wang pointed to the successes of “matchmakers” like Etsy and TaskRabbit, which reduce friction and distance between customers and service providers, as evidence that the increasingly streamlined connections between consumers and large companies has and will continue to make middlemen obsolete. “Nobody wants a middleman, unless that middleman is adding value.”
Wang cites Amazon’s “unbeatable” all-in-one “content, network, and technology platform” as one he believes companies across all industries will attempt to copy. But the bigger question is how to partner with—or absorb—other organizations to build “the next set of vertically-integrated monopolies.”
Inside the Career Treks at McCombs
An MBA program that spends all of its time and effort only in the classroom is one that may leave its students at a disadvantage. The truth is that it’s the hands-on and out-of-class experiences that make the biggest impression on MBAs, and that’s exactly why McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin takes their MBA students on career treks every year.
These treks, led by the Texas MBA Career and Management team, take MBAs to various cities and companies around the nation for a unique learning opportunity. During each trek, MBA students learn more in-depth information about their favorite industries and corporations through presentations, Q&A sessions and networking opportunities. And so far, the treks have been a huge success. Continue reading…
Top 10 Employers in Seattle
The Seattle metro has earned a reputation as a cultural hub with abundant employment and easy access to natural splendor continues to lure new denizens to the Emerald City, which now boasts a population of over 650,000.
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Amazon or Microsoft: Seattle MBAs Debate Better Workplace
When it comes to getting a job at a tech company, Seattle MBAs can have a difficult choice ahead of them: Amazon or Microsoft? These two heavyweights are the best of the best in the tech industry and draw in hundreds of MBAs each year. But GeekWire recently asked the question that’s on everyone’s mind: “Which is the better place to work?” Continue reading…
