MIT Sloan Executive Startup on How To Sell Themselves
Brian Eastwood from the MIT Sloan School of Management recently discussed how TechEmergence founder Dan Faggella metabolized important lessons contained within the Negotiation for Executives program to sell his first startup, the e-commerce platform, The Science of Skill.
Harvard Debuts Joint MBA/MS in Engineering Degree
Harvard University today becomes the latest to throw down the gauntlet in the quest to provide preeminent leadership to the ever-growing tech sector—announcing the launch of a new joint master’s degree (MS/MBA) program between Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).
What Are The Most Affordable Boston MBA Programs?
Living in Boston isn’t cheap. According to Expatistan Cost of Living Index, Boston is the sixth most expensive city in North America. On average, people pay between $1,641 (480 sq. ft.) and $2,812 (900 sq. ft.) per month for rent, depending on location and size of the apartment. Then, by the time you add on utilities, food, transportation, personal care and entertainment, living and working in the city can look exceptionally pricey. And costs only increase when you add on an MBA education. That’s why an affordable Boston MBA program is so important.
With the average cost of a top 10 MBA tuition set around $120,000 over two years, breaking the bank may feel especially draining. So, to help you out, we’ve compiled the top five most affordable MBA programs in Boston. Continue reading…
Amid Roller Coaster Rides for Some, HBS Stays Atop Bloomberg BusinessWeek Ranking
For the second consecutive year, Harvard Business School (HBS) tops the Bloomberg BusinessWeek annual ranking of MBA programs—released today—making it one of the few leading schools that didn’t experience shifts in a list that holds lots of changes this year over last.
Economists, Professors Sign Letter Warning Against Voting For Trump
To say many professors and economists are a bit wary of a potential Donald Trump presidency is probably underselling it.
Not too shortly after author and Questrom School of Business at Boston University professor Mark T. Williams wrote a scathing response to Trump’s proposed economic policies in Business Insider, a host of the country’s most esteemed academic minds joined him in resolute agreement, signing a letter of warning against voting for the Republican presidential nominee.
The letter featured 370 economists, professors and several Nobel laureates—including Harvard economist Oliver Hart, who recently won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with MIT Sloan economist Bengt Holmström—calling a Trump a “dangerous, destructive choice” for president.
The letter does not explicitly endorse Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, nor any third party candidates. Rather, the group only warned against voting for Trump.
“I don’t normally engage in politics, but I decided to sign this one because I think that the destruction that Trump’s campaign tactics have done to the institutions of this nation is a great moral issue,” writes Yale University economist Robert Shiller “It isn’t Republican versus Democrat. It isn’t a normal political statement. It is a feeling of outrage against a demagogue.”
The criticisms run deep. From his proud misinformation, to his proliferation with conspiracy theories and even his notorious business practices.
Signatories Paul Romer, the new chief economist at the World Bank, and 1972 Nobel Prize winner Kenneth Arrow add, “He misinforms the electorate, degrades trust in public institutions with conspiracy theories and promotes willful delusion over engagement with reality,” propping “magical thinking and conspiracy theories over sober assessments of feasible economic policy options.”
The Wall Street Journal also reports that 19 separate U.S. Nobel Prize winners in economics endorsed the aforementioned Hillary Clinton in a letter released on Monday, Oct. 31. That letter came out just days after FBI Director Paul Comey announced the bureau would proceed with more investigation into the Clinton server email scandal, this time relating to emails coming from former U.S. House of Representatives member Anthony Weiner. Weiner was formerly married to Clinton’s trusted aide Huma Abedin.
MIT Sloan Brings Bitcoin Conference to Campus
The MIT Sloan School of Management has announced that the university’s own Bitcoin Club will host its yearly Expo on March 5 and 6. Bitcoin, for readers who missed out on the Silk Road darknet market controversy of 2013—along with their chance to purchase guns, pharmaceuticals, and data from the comfort of their own home—is an open-source virtual currency, which, according to its official site, “uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks.”
