New MBA Jobs: BCG, Merck, Adobe and More
There are hot new MBA jobs that need to get filled each and every week all over the world. Here are a few new openings for entry level and advance positions at a range of companies, and don’t forget to check out the best new MBA jobs right here on MetroMBA every week.
3D Printing Research, Success Without Passion, and More – New York News
Let’s explore some of the most interesting stories that have emerged from New York business schools this week.
Award-Winning Paper Explores How Designers Innovate in 3D Printing Communities – Stevens Institute of Technology SOB News
In a new paper from Gaurav Sabnis, Stevens Institute of Technology School of Business Assistant Professor of Marketing, Associate Dean of Research Dr. Jeffrey Nickerson, and the University of Navarra’s Dr. Harris Kyriakou “examines knowledge reuse in 3D printing communities [where] makers often iterate on designs created by other users to create refined products.”
According to the Stevens Institute of Technology SOB News article, “the professors looked at frequently reused designs and found a few clear signals in what helps designs get shared—from a designer’s level of experience, to the amount of information she included about her designs.”
The trio’s research is among the first to properly survey 3D printing communities and it could have only happened in the interdisciplinary incubator that is Stevens. Dr. Sabnis writes, “Stevens has a great culture that leads to more interdisciplinary research. I’m excited to do the kinds of research that creates real-world solutions for businesses in the digital age.”
You can read more about the 3D printing research from Stevens here.
Reviving Grit: Columbia Business School Study Finds That In Pursuit of Success, Dedication Falls Short Without Passion – Columbia Business School News
In a new PNAS study, Columbia Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management researchers found that grit “without the clear sense of direction that passion provides does not propel people forward.”
Columbia Professor and co-author Adam Galinsky writes, “We were not surprised to find that dogged dedication to an objective – without a true passion for the goal – is mere drudgery.”
“But until now, research on grit failed to factor in the propulsive force that animated grit’s perseverance. By properly incorporating passion into the grit equation, we now have evidence that people who are passionate for their goal and persevere towards it will reach higher heights.”
You can find Why Grit Requires Perseverance and Passion to Positively Predict Performance here, and discover more fro the Columbia Business School News article here.
Where Professors Share Knowledge on Issues in Finance, Economics and Accounting – Rutgers Business School News
The Livingston Student Center recently hosted the annual Conference on Pacific Basin Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Management, which was founded by Rutgers Business School Distinguished Professor of Finance and Economics Cheng-Few Lee at the business school in 1992.
Rutgers Business School Distinguished Professor of Finance and Economics Cheng-Few Lee / Photo via business.rutgers.edu
The conference assembles “finance professors from around the world” to absorb “research on a variety of issues, from financial applications of parallel processing to the ethics of cryptocurrency.”
According to the Rutgers Business School News article, “Many of the conference speakers were Professor Lee’s former colleagues or students, including professor Yong Shi, who is one of 13 advisors to China’s premier, [and] delivered a keynote address on big Data Mining and Knowledge Management.”
You can read more about the event here.
October MBA Deadlines: NYU Stern, Ivey, Lehigh, and More
Douglas Adams once wrote, “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” Prospective MBAs applying for business school can appreciate Adams’ humorous writing, but should do their best to not live by the British author’s procrastinating prose. That’s where MetroMBA comes in! Check out our list of upcoming MBA program application deadlines in our top metros: Continue reading…
Layoffs, Feeling Connected, and a New Lehigh Grant – New York News
Let’s explore some of the most interesting stories that have emerged from New York business schools this week.
CEOs Paid Less Than Peers More Likely to Engage in Layoffs, Research Finds – Binghamton SOM Blog
According to new Personnel Psychology research coauthored by Binghamton Assistant Professor of Strategy Scott Bentley, “CEOs who are paid less than their peers are four times more likely to engage in layoffs.”
In a recent Binghamton SOM Blog entry, Bentley writes, “In terms of strategic decisions that a CEO can make that could lead to higher pay, layoffs are one of the easiest to do. In a way, CEOs are just like any other type of employee. They are going to compare their pay to those around them. The difference is that the average employee can’t make strategic decisions for the company that influences their own pay. Executives can.”
Bentley adds, “Right around the point where CEOs are paid equal to their peers, the effect kind of goes away. We found that there’s this huge drop off in the likelihood of announcing layoffs once your pay is relatively the same as, or more than, your peers.”
“Payoffs for layoffs? An examination of CEO relative pay and firm performance surrounding layoff announcements” is available here. You can read Bentley’s full article here.
New Research Finds the More Connected You Feel to Your Future Self the Healthier Choices You Make – Columbia Business School
New Columbia Business School research published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology finds that “the more connected you feel to your future self, the more likely you are to adopt healthier habits today, tomorrow and thereafter.”
CBS Assistant Professor of Business Michael Slepian, on the school’s official website, says, “Our findings can help people circumvent the pitfalls of behavioral health changes. What the research shows is, if you can get people to think about their connection to their future selves, you can also get them to visualize the repeated health decisions they will need to make to improve their long-term health.”
According to the article, “it is possible that increasing future self-continuity would not only promote positive healthy behavior like exercising, but also prevent negative behaviors like overeating. The findings of this study could be applied to other behavioral health domains including skincare, such as sunscreen use and tanning salon use, dental care, such as regular flossing and routine dental visits, and road safety, such as texting while driving.”
The paper, “Future Self-Continuity Is Associated With Improved Health and Increases Exercise Behavior,” can be found here.
Philip Rauch’s Legacy Expands Through Family Foundation – Lehigh College of Business and Economics Blog
The Lehigh College of Business and Economics profiled Philip Rauch Jr. ’33, whose Rauch Foundation will “provide a generous grant to establish the Rauch Media and Communications Lab.”
Photo from the original Rauch Business Center groundbreaking on April 7, 1989 / Photo via lehigh.edu
Rauch Foundation President Nancy Rauch Douzinas writes of her uncle Philip’s commitment to Lehigh. “He was especially passionate about the power of clear communications as a means of working together effectively.”
“We know that he would be pleased that the Rauch Foundation will continue to support communications technology at Lehigh and ensure that the school keeps pace with the transformations driving business today.”
Dean Georgette C. Phillips explains it’s Lehigh’s responsibility to ensure that “today’s business professionals become more adept with multimedia and communication tools to communicate or introduce the next best idea.”
According to the school’s blog, “Students and faculty will use state-of-the-art technologies to develop presentations, videos, podcasts and other technologically based communications. Students will benefit from coaching and feedback in real-time with the learning laboratory.”
You can read the full article here.
Coding Becoming a Priority for Columbia Business School MBAs
Like every other elite business school worth its salt, Columbia Business School (CBS) has seen a huge surge in student interest in programming and analytics courses.
It started three years ago when Costis Maglaras, the chair of the Decision, Risk & Operations division of CBS, oversaw development of a new analytics curriculum with the goal to ensure that students were being trained in quantitative, data-driven decision-making.
Maglaras couldn’t help but notice a major gap: There were few courses in computer programming, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
He took it upon himself to help develop a series of MBA-level programming that included analytics-focused classes to give MBA students the digital tools they needed to become tech-savvy managers. In tandem with Maglaras’ efforts, the student-run Technology Business Group helped develop courses around the programming languages of SQL and Python.
Now more than a dozen elective programming courses have been launched across CBS, helping MBA graduates land management positions at Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft. And the popularity of these courses is only growing.
“Taking those classes gave me a lot of confidence for my interviews,” says Neha Bansal, MBA ’18. She credits the new curriculum for helping her land a job at Google as a product manager due in small part to her Python expertise.
Bansal is far from the only student who’s reaped the benefits. There are now more than 300 MBA students at CBS who have signed up to learn Python—a highly marketable skill. The only problem: The classes have now become almost too popular.
More than a dozen coding language programs have recently launched for business school students at CBS, thanks in part to the student-run Technology Business Group.
The division hired additional faculty and to figure out how to integrate the new analytics programming more intricately into the overall curriculum. Across the board, CBS is seeing more MBA students interested in programming because, simply put, it’s what employers want.
For example, Citigroup recently announced it would train all incoming analysts in Python. Goldman Sachs has asked its traders to learn how to code. According to a recent Financial Times survey, “understanding digital impact on business” is one of the most important skills for an MBA and one of the most difficult skills to recruit.
“The reality is we’re living in a very data-centric world, and whether we like it or not it’s going to be an important factor in any decision-making process down the road,” Hardeep Johar, of the CBS Engineering School, says. “We need people to be savvy about how to use data analytics and artificial intelligence on all the important decisions of today.”
To read the full article and all about what Columbia Business School is doing to help prepare MBA students to embrace data analytics, visit the CBS website.
This article has been edited and republished from Clear Admit.
The Newest Fordham EMBA, and More – New York News
Let’s explore some of the most interesting stories that have emerged from New York business schools this week.
New EMBA Program Prepares Athletes and Artists for Second Careers – Gabelli Connect
Earlier this month, the Fordham Univesity Gabelli School of Business unveiled a new EMBA program that caters to athletes and artists. Associate Dean Francis Petit, who will preside over the new program, writes about the specific segment the EMBA will service:
“Overall, this segment is looking to reinvent themselves and reinvention is oftentimes arduous. This program will provide the necessary tools.”
Petit compares the collective and collaborative academic journey that participants will take to the experiences athletes had among their teammates.
According to the article, the new EMBA will include “team projects, career coaching, presentations, and site visits to companies in the New York area, along with a capstone project.”
You can read more about the new Gabelli EMBA program here.
What Everyone Needs to Know When Traveling Abroad – Columbia Business School News
New research co-authored by Columbia Business School’s Michael Morris explores the question of how far should you go to “adopt local ways when your work brings you abroad?”
Not surprisingly, Morris’s paper “Do As the Romans Do? Diversity Ideologies and Trust in Evaluations of Cultural Accommodation” finds that the answer is complicated.
“If you’re wondering whether to try to speak limited Spanish in Barcelona or say ‘G-Day’ in Sydney, the answer is a yes. Accommodate to a moderate extent and locals will appreciate the gesture,” he writes. “Visitors need to be careful not to overdo it, since going too far can cause a backlash. This research sends the simple message to foreign visitors that effort matters. It’s a sign of respect and authenticity.”
You can read more of Morris’ advice here.
The Secret to Influential Management Research? It All Comes Down to Data – Stevens Institute of Technology School of Business News
The Stevens Institute of Technology School of Business recently profiled Emeritus Professor Dr. Richard Reilly, whose pioneering work in talent management research was honed during a distinguished career designing studies at Bell Labs, AT&T, and ETS. The article notes that Dr. Reilly was “recognized by Academy of Management Learning and Education as being among the top 1 percent of all researchers in human resource management and strategy, as measured by textbook citations.”
Dr. Reilly notes, “Understanding these organizations and how they work gave me access to data that helped me do meaningful research, write articles and teach to what was actually going on in the workplace.”
Dr. Reilly explains one of the impetuses for his research:
“The issue with testing is that the outcome in higher education is so much harder to pin down. Is it grades, or something more nuanced, more complex? I got interested in looking in the issues around fairness in tests, as it relates to gender and background.”
You can read more about Dr. Reilly here.
