Our Favorite MBA Recruiters: Facebook
These days, it seems like everyone and their mother is on Facebook—no, really, your mom sent me a friend request last week. Your family vacation looked like a blast! As more and more people subscribe to the undisputed king of social media, Facebook seems to hire more and more MBAs to continue to move the company forward into the future. Continue reading…
McDonough MBA Consulting Club Members Collaborate with Undergrads
Georgetown McDonough MBAs are paying it forward to the undergraduate peers. According to a press release, the McDonough MBA Consulting Club conducted a series of mock case interviews with the undergraduate Management Consulting Society to better prepare the undergrads for upcoming job interviews. Continue reading…
Northwestern Kellogg Launches 10 New Courses
Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management has just launched ten new business courses for the 2017-18 academic year, according to a recent press release.
“We are very excited to continue our tradition of curricular innovation at Kellogg, drawing on both the scholarship or our research faculty and our connections with practice,” Senior Associate Dean for Curriculum and Teaching Mike Mazzeo said.
For data-focused business studies, the school has launched the brand new Data Exploration course, taught by finance professor Robert L. McDonald, who says; “It is now common in business to need to analyze large and unwieldy datasets. We moved from calculators to spreadsheets in the 1980s and now we need to move beyond spreadsheets.” The premise of the Data Exploration course, he added, “is that students should be able to work with and analyze raw data from a variety of sources and a variety of forms, using methods that scale. We will use R, which has become one of the dominant tools in data analytics.”
Two new marketing courses have been introduced to the curriculum: Customer Loyalty, taught by Kellogg Senior Fellow Thomas O’Toole; and Ethnographic Customer Insights, taught by adjunct professor Gina Fong. On the latter, Fong notes; “Ethnographic research is not just a way to answer important business questions, but also a way to bring the customer to life inside a company, helping make the decision-making of the company more customer-centric. Knowing the insight into the customer gives the marketer the ability to anticipate what the customer needs and wants—sometimes before he or she are able to articulate it.”
Two new collaboration and leadership programs have been introduced to the MBA curriculum as well, with Strategic Communications for Organizations, arriving next winter, and Leadership Development Models & Practices, which is available now. In addition, three new Public-Private Interface courses have been or will soon be introduced by Kellogg, covering Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management, Social Impact & Technology Innovation, and Decision-Making for Sustainable Business.
As well, Kellogg has introduced courses in Commercializing Innovations and the CEO Playbook for Health System Success course, both of which will be offered in the winter and spring 2018 semesters, respectively.
You can read more about the new offerings at Kellogg here.
PcW Brings Diversity Training Course to USC
Earlier this month, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) conducted a diversity training course at the University of Southern California. According to a press release, the program was part of PwC’s recruiting efforts at the Marshall School of Business and Leventhal School of Accounting. Continue reading…
Your Search for Atlanta’s Best Accelerated MBA Programs
Most folks pursuing an accelerated MBA know which industry or area of concentration they want to pursue. They are MBA candidates who want to advance their current careers, not switch them. Others choose the accelerated route because it can be difficult to leave two years of work and salary. Continue reading…
What To Expect at Chicago Ideas Week 2017
From October 16-22, the world’s top thinkers, tastemakers, idea generators, and innovators descend upon Chicago for the seventh annual Chicago Ideas Week. Ideas Week is the largest affordable ideas festival on the planet, bringing a variety of talks, panels and hands-on labs to venues across the Windy City. Continue reading…
