Summer Information Sessions at Coles
Graduation is barely in the rearview mirror, but Kennesaw State University Michael J. Coles College of Business is already planning for the next round of students. Coles has now scheduled a number of information sessions throughout the summer for their different MBA offerings. Continue reading…
Bauer Students and Alum to Battle for Investors at Shark Tank Auditions
Life as an entrepreneur can be incredibly competitive and bringing a new product to market by finding investors can be messy. But at least it makes good television. At the end of May, University of Houston C.T. Bauer College of Business will have a special casting call for the popular TV show Shark Tank. Continue reading…
Drucker Announces New Dean
Tom Horan, director of Claremont Graduate University’s Center for Information Systems and Technology and co-director of the Transdisciplinary Studies Program, has been selected to serve as the next Dean of the Drucker School of Management. The current Dean, Larry Crosby, announced his retirement, effective on June 30. Over the next two months, Dean Crosby will work with Horan, Drucker faculty and staff and school-university working group to ensure that his momentum of success will continue.
While serving as dean of the Peter F. Drucker School of Management, Horan also will continue to serve as the director of CISAT. Under his guidance, CISAT and Drucker faculties will explore natural synergies in academic programming. CISAT will continue to offer technical masters and doctoral degrees.
Harvard Professor Discusses Mad Men’s Don Draper in Case Study
One of the defining features of the Harvard Business School‘s MBA program is its Case Method. According to the HBS website, “The case method is a profound educational innovation that presents the greatest challenges confronting leading companies, nonprofits and government organizations—complete with the constraints and incomplete information found in real business issues—and places the student in the role of the decision maker.” Professors present case studies to students to help them apply the skills that they are learning in the program to real world issues by analyzing the problem and presenting solutions to the issues.
Gautam Mukunda, a Harvard Business School professor recently wrote a case study that analyzes Don Draper, the protagonist from the AMC television series Mad Men. Don Draper is considered to be the most talented “ad man” in New York. However, he does present the companies that he works for with issues. The case study titled, “Don Draper: Is he worth it?” presents students with the problem that managers face with professionals who often make more problems for the company but whose talent usually out weighs the issues.
REGISTER: Upcoming UIC Liautaud Information Session
Prospective MBAs interested in learning more about the UIC Liautaud’s Master’s degree programs are encouraged to attend a general information session at the school’s Chicago campus. These sessions happen all of the time, with the next information session falling on June 9, from 6PM-7:30PM at Douglas Hall Room 170, found at 705 S. Morgan Street, Chicago. Continue reading…
Simmons Healthcare MBA Students Share Experiences
Two Healthcare MBA students from the Simmons School of Management recently shared their experience with the school’s blog. Corinna McFarland and Johanna Georgics come from different backgrounds but decided to pursue the Simmons Healthcare MBA to further their careers in the health care field. McFarland was recently hired as the Decision Support Analyst in the Finance Department at Boston Children’s Hospital, while Georgics, who has a background in clinical nursing, now serves as the Senior Manager for the Clinical Quality Management team at athenahealth.
Both students contribute their new careers to the skills and knowledge that they learned through the Healthcare MBA program at Simmons. Georgics, who is also a Simmons Nursing School alumnus, hopes that her education can help to continue to support her career goal to have a significant impact to improve health care using technology. McFarland, who before taking the position with the Boston Children’s Hospital, worked for several years at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in development. She tells readers that the HCMBA coursework really prepared her for her new role that has more of a finance aspect to it than her previous job.
