Rotman Team Wins Regional A.T. Kearney Global Prize Competition
For the past 19 years, A.T. Kearney has hosted an annual prestigious strategy case competition for the world’s top business schools. The competition asks teams to tackle a simulated engagement of a real client challenge and come up with an actionable strategic solution that provides real value. For the second time in three years, the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management team of Full-Time MBA students won the North American leg of the competition. Continue reading…
Creative Professionals Can Thrive With Ashridge’s New MBA
Beginning in October 2016, Ashridge Business School will offer an Executive MBA for the Creative Industries. The degree is perfectly suited to either the professional already working in the creative sector or to those looking to make a transition to the field.
The program is a partnership between Creative Skillset and Atticus Education, two organizations that encourage development of creative skills through training and advocacy. Executives from fields including television, film, fashion, advertising and publishing will serve on the program’s Advisory Board.
Exploring Entrepreneurship Opportunities for MBAs
While ten years ago MBA programs were mostly focused on helping applicants achieve their dream career in corporate America, that’s no longer the case. Many MBA graduates are starting to become less interested in traditional jobs and more interested in starting their own companies. In fact, a recent study of over 30,000 Wharton MBA graduates showed that more than seven percent of 2013 grads started their own companies, five times as many as in 2007. And Stanford reported a record 16 percent of its MBA graduates launching startups in 2012. This clear shift in graduate desires has also caused a change in the focus of many business schools. Continue reading…
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: Ingrid West, Sellinger MBA ’08, Wins Excellence Award
Ingrid West, MBA ’08 — an alumni of the Sellinger School of Business and president of Acton Mobile Industries, has been named the recipient of SmartCEO’s Circle of Excellence Award for top large technology companies.
According to her company bio, West has full responsibility for strategic and administrative management activities at Acton Mobile Industries, a Baltimore, MD-based provider of modular space rental services to the construction, commercial, industrial, education, healthcare and government markets. She joined Acton in July 2012 as CFO and was promoted to President in December 2013. Prior to Acton Mobile, her most recent role was as VP & CFO of Davis Calibration, a Private Equity owned service provider. Continue reading…
Kellstadt Entrepreneurship Program Ranked #15 In Nation
According to an article on DePaul University’s website, the Princeton Review ranked The DePaul University’s Kellstadt Graduate School of Business’ entrepreneurship program as #15 in the nation. This is five spots higher than last year.
“We offer students a unique combination of classroom and real-world experiences,” DePaul Coleman Entrepreneurship Chair Harold Welsch (BUS ’66, MBA ’68), founder and director of the entrepreneurship program at DePaul said in a statement in the article. “We teach students the theoretical principles involved in entrepreneurship, but we also make sure students get out into the community to learn how entrepreneurship works.” Continue reading…
JHU Carey Team Wins Biopharma Case Competition
According to a press release on the school website, students from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School took home the $6,000 first prize at the 4th Annual Biopharmaceutical Case Competition.
Teams were made up of three to five students MBA and Healthcare Management programs representing top business schools such as the Wharton School of Business, MIT Sloan School of Management and Yale School of Management. Continue reading…
