Smith Moves Up In This Year’s Bloomberg Businessweek MBA Ranking
In Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2014 ranking of full-time MBA programs, The Robert H. Smith School of Business has climbed up from 24th to 17th MBA program in the country. The rankings are compiled after taking into account a number of categories that measure strength of education as well as which programs best prepare MBAs for their careers. Continue reading…
Haas Re-vamps LAUNCH Competition
The Haas School of Business has revamped its LAUNCH start-up competition. The program now has new eligibility requirements, and has been developed from a startup idea competition into a four-month accelerator designed to transform early-stage startups into fundable ventures.
Top Berkeley-Haas leaders and faculty, including serial entrepreneur and Berkeley-Haas Lecturer Steve Blank, Lester Center for Entrepreneurship Executive Director André Marquis, and the newly appointed Lester Center Associate Director, Rhonda Shrader, will teach the LAUNCH accelerator.
LeBow Students Begin Customized MBA Program
Almost three-dozen LeBow College of Business students have begun a customized two-year MBA program. These students were selected by Vanguard, one of the world’s largest investment management companies, to attend the program. Students joined several Vanguard employees in this customized program.
Drexel LeBow is delivering the course at the business college’s campus in Malvern. The program began with a four-day residency at which Vanguard chairman and CEO Bill McNabb welcomed the students and described why the investment firm chose Drexel’s LeBow College of Business Corporate and Executive Education to provide the customized MBA program.
MBAs Go Head-to-Head in Smith School’s M&A Competition
Students from the nation’s top MBA programs went head to head at the Robert H. Smith School of Business 8th annual Mergers and Acquisitions Competition from October 23-24. The competition tasked students with analyzing a hypothetical case based on the Internet Software & Services industry. The teams, with up to four members each, used data tools from event sponsor Standard and Poor’s Capital IQ to prepare their analyses before pitching their merger and acquisition alternatives to a panel of judges including corporate executives.
Explore Virtual iMBA Offerings at Lake Forest
It’s time to digitize the way students learn business at Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. The school is offering an innovative avatar learning iMBA where students can access an online curriculum that provides access to the organizational structure of a virtual reality company. Sounds pretty crazy, right? The virtual company includes all facets of sales, production, management, competition and growth opportunities. Continue reading…
DePaul MBA Capstone Discussed Inversions
A recent Wall Street Journal article informed the world of the IRS’ new tax rules that crackdown on companies practicing inversion— a tactic corporations employ to use their international residency to avoid paying U.S. taxes. Ronald Graziano, DePaul MBA ’06 and global accounting specialist for Credit Suisse Securities, discussed the possibility of the IRS changing the rules on inversions during an MBA capstone class at the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business.
