Henley and Santander Offer Loan to Studying Executives
Henley Business School and Santander banking group are partnering to offer a new loan to executives in the former’s UK-based programme. Aimed at individuals looking to further their business education with part-time study whilst continuing in employment, the loan provides the opportunity to borrow up to £20,000 to help towards course fees, with market-leading rates from 4.3% APR on loans from £7,500 to £15,000.
This loan is designed to serve the business community by supporting and developing the engine room of sustained economic growth – business executives. Key to this initiative is to help widen access to education for business executives and is available to people starting or continuing Henley’s programmes including: Part-time Postgraduate courses, Executive Education programmes, Executive MBA, Flexible Executive MBA and the MBA for Music & Creative Industries.
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Notes From Kellogg’s Health Care Symposium
The following article was originally sourced from the post “State of Exchanges” found on Kellogg’s News & Events site.
More than 413,000 Kentucky residents enrolled for health care coverage via kynect, the state’s health benefit exchange, last year. This was an impressive result given the states rank among the worst in the nation for health outcomes. Carrie Banahan, kynect Executive Director, spoke at about these health care figures and more at a conference cohosted by the Kellogg School of Business and Get Covered Illinois, Illinois’ health insurance marketplace. The symposium featured the executive directors of seven state-based exchanges along with top leadership from two additional exchanges.
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Kellogg Symposium Discusses the Present and Future of Health Care in America
The following article was originally sourced from the news piece “Navigating Healthcare Under the ACA,” published on Kellogg’s News & Events page.
A handful of high level health care executives and figures spoke about the changing environment of that industry at the June 4 Kellogg School of Management’s MacEachern Symposium. Titled “The Future of the Physician,” the event was hosted by the Health Enterprise Management Program. Continue reading…
Harvard 1st Year MBA Students Present IPO Day
May 14 marked IPO Day at Harvard Business School, where students in the FIELD 3 course had the opportunity to present viable businesses to 900+ first year MBA students. The audience cheered as teams presented ideas ranging from making single origin chocolates fun and accessible (DelectareChocolates.com), a solution that ‘unshrinks’ woolen clothing (Unshrinkit.com) to an app (SpotRocket.co) that promised to help job seekers find the “hottest start-up to work for.”
This presentation capped the yearlong FIELD course. FIELD 3, the final module, thrust students into experiencing the real-world roles of entrepreneur, analyst, marketer, and investor. It challenged them to refine the leadership and teamwork skills they learned in FIELD 1 last fall, and the product or service development skills they practiced while working with global partner organizations during FIELD 2. The students had two months to refine their ideas and develop a customer sales pitch, all leading up to Launch Day in mid-April, and teams with a viable idea advanced to this month’s IPO Day.
“Our objective with FIELD 3 was to provide students with an opportunity to apply and integrate the knowledge, skills, and tools acquired in the first-year curriculum,” says Senior Associate Dean Youngme Moon, chair of the MBA Program. “It exposed the entire class to the challenge and excitement of being an entrepreneur, creating an idea, and making it a reality. “The focus was on taking action, learning from the response to that action, and making changes to improve your chances of success,” Moon continues. “Almost all successful ventures go through this ‘pivoting’ process multiple times as they probe and test their ideas. FIELD 3 uniquely challenged students to experience that process and learn from it.”
ACG Philadelphia Announces Winners of the 8th Annual Cup Competition
ACG Philadelphia presented the 8th annual Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Cup competition, sponsored by KPMG LLP on April 17, 2014. The Philadelphia Cup, which is open exclusively to MBA and MS Finance students attending top area universities, is a highly realistic private equity/investment banking case study competition that requires a combination of corporate strategy, finance and valuation skills. A total of $25,000 was awarded to to eight local MBA teams and every student who participated took home prize money and invaluable real world experience.
Teams from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School, Saint Joseph’s University’s Haub School of Business, Villanova University’s School of Business, LaSalle University, Penn State University’s Smeal College of Business, Temple University’s Fox School of Business, LeBow College of Business – Drexel University and the University of Delaware’s Lerner College of Business all competed as finalists in the 2014 ACG Cup. The finalist teams were selected from Round One competitions that were held on-campus at each school. Each team analyzed and presented their solutions and recommendations to a complex business case in order to advance to the “ACG Philadelphia Cup” Finals. Continue reading…
Kellogg Presents Award to Leadership Behind Jack Daniel’s
The following article was originally sourced from the news piece “Family Spirits,” published on Kellogg’s News & Events page.
Board Chairman G. Garvin Brown IV and CEO Paul C. Varga of Brown-Forman, the family-first spirit and wine company best known for Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey accepted the Kellogg School of Management’s 2014 Family Enterprise Leadership Award in front of an audience of faculty, practitioners and students.
The Brown family originally brought in Varga as an intern at the company. He worked his way up the corporate ladder for 19 years before being named CEO of the previously family-led company in 2005. Continue reading…
