BEIJING / SHANGHAI - China is luring more foreign job seekers as its economy shines amid the global slowdown.
Ian Hoorneman, a Harvard Business School MBA holder from the United States, came to Beijing in 2009 and is now a counselor and coordinator for international affairs in Beijing Royal School...
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New York Times, December 4, 2011
LONDON — It always pays to do your homework. And as Jeremy Bedzow, an M.B.A. student at the IE University in Madrid, can attest, in business school it often pays to volunteer — especially if you are looking for rewards that go beyond the bottom line.
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Working with a team of IE students in Madrid, Mr. Bedzow helped Microsoft to develop a model program to provide training in information technology as well as the soft skills required to function inside the corporate world.
Known as ITCAN Academy, a pun on the Arabic word for perfection, itqan, the course recruited 100 university students, all of whom had to be Saudi nationals...
“One of our objectives at IE is to educate global citizens,” Mr. Íñiguez (Dean) said. “We try to instill civic virtue through the whole curriculum. Instead of having a module on ethics, we believe every course, every subject, every professor, should address these issues.”..
“That diversity also needs to be part of the learning process,” Mr. Íñiguez said. “We need to get beyond gender, or the number of passports in the class, and make sure our graduates are genuinely comfortable with different views and different values. We need to help students get rid of their arrogance.”
Jörg Asmussen, originally from Germany, came to Italy to attend the SDA Bocconi Master in Business Administration taught in English during 1991-1992. He will take office on the European Central Bank Board on 1 January 2012.
The European Council has recently officially named the German national Jörg Asmussen, an alumnus of the SDA Bocconi MBA, a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), substituting the resigning Jürgen Stark. Asmussen will take office on 1 January 2012. Jörg Asmussen attended the English version of the SDA Bocconi MBA during the 1991-1992 academic year.
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The Executive Board of the ECB, made up of the President and Vice President of the Bank and 4 other members, has the responsibility of "preparing Governing Council meetings," says the ECB website, in addition to "implementing monetary policy for the euro area in accordance with the guidelines specified and decisions taken by the Governing Council and giving the necessary instructions to the euro area NCBs, managing the day-to-day business of the ECB and exercising certain powers delegated to it by the Governing Council."
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Professor Yu Yongding on Project Syndicate.
Yu Yongding, currently President of the China Society of World Economics, is a former member of the monetary policy committee of the Peoples' Bank of China and former Director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of World Economics and Politics.
Professor David Daokui Li on Wikipedia
David Daokui Li (Chinese: 李稻葵; pinyin: Lǐ Dàokúi) is a Chinese economist economist and the Director of the Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE) at the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management and is the Mansfield Freeman Professor of Economics. He currently teaches courses on economic transition, corporate finance, international economics, and China's economy....He is a member of the 1985 inaugural class of the Tsinghua School of Economics and Management (Tsinghua SEM)..
Li Daokui is a part of a trio to replace Fan Gang, as academic members to the central bank’s monetary policy committee (PBOC Monetary Policy Committee)...
"China could play key role in EU rescue", Financial Times, October 27, 2011.
“It is in China’s long-term and intrinsic interest to help Europe because they are our biggest trading partner but the chief concern of the Chinese government is how to explain this decision to our own people,” said Professor Li.
Article of Wall Street Journal, October 6, 2011. Via Melissa Korn @BizEdWSJ
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www.jac-conference.org/jac/, Sept 30, 2011
"JAC Conference Brings Together CEOS, Deans and MBA Alumni From Top Business Schools", BusinessBecause
We just got back from the 2011 Joint Alumni Conference (JAC) in Zurich and thought we'd share some of the highlights. Set at the superb Swiss Re Center for Global Dialogue, nestled in woodland with blue-sky views of the lake, the conference attracted an impressive array of speakers and several hundred MBA alumni from the world's top business schools...
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- The CarbonNeutral Company (Wikipedia) is a global provider of carbon reduction solutions. Founded in 1997, the company has been one of the first providers of voluntary carbon offset credits in the world.
- The World Bank's "State and Trends of the Carbon Market 2011" (PDF, 78 pages)
- Santander gets CarbonNeutral® certification for the head office
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CEIBS "Becomes 1st Business School in Asia to Achieve “Carbon Neutral” Status"
MIT World, February 18, 2009
Running Time: 0:55:00
...This type of innovative leadership, says Maceda, could “apply broadly to most service-based organizations who want to make people the heart of a sustainable, competitive advantage, and to translate better products that meet clients needs better.” Such an organizational model holds true even or especially during times of crisis. “If you believe you have a strong competitive advantage, usually during times of crisis you can harness that and win.”...
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business today india, September 18, 2011
The country head of HSBC was the first woman to enter the male bastion of investment banking
...The list of Kidwai's firsts is staggering: she was the first Indian woman to graduate from Harvard Business School, or HBS; the first woman to be hired by PriceWaterhouse in India; the first woman to lead a foreign bank in India. Kidwai says she had to work "very hard" to find her space among the men...
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Article of September 12, 2011 of Francesca Di Meglio
The newest crop of writers includes nontraditional candidates—a journalist, a pollster, and a Google "jack of all trades"—all yearning to make their mark
The MBA Journals, which challenge incoming MBA students to share their business school journey with Bloomberg Businessweek readers, have become a rite of passage of sorts. Many MBA applicants read the journals in hopes of discovering what a typical day will be like on a particular campus, how they’ll ever find an internship or full-time job, and what kind of social life they can expect...
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Article of The Telegraph, 26 Jun 2010 (Wikipedia Entry of Sir Ronald Cohen)
The man who started the private equity industry 40 years ago, is plotting to harness entrepreneurship to act as an agent for social change.
...has been back to Harvard and a clutch of other top universities to tell the students about the next big thing in the business world – social finance...
"We want to do the same thing for social entrepreneurship. We want to connect the capital markets to the social sector.
"I think it is going to be similarly powerful because the impact of the recent crisis on peoples consciousness has emphasised the importance of dealing with the social consequences of the [capitalist] system."
Sir Ronald is fervent in his belief that this is more than just the latest business fad, but a crunch-point moment for the entire Western market-based system.
"It is not enough to increase the standard of living at the high end. It is right at the same time to worry about those who are left behind," he says.
"I think societies everywhere will come to the conclusion that an important part of the capitalist system is having a powerful social sector to address social issues, because government doesn't have the resources."
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Article of Businessweek, July 21, 2011
A USC Marshall entrepreneur keeps the family sneaker tradition alive by launching a line of basketball shoes banned by the NBA...
The Tuck School of Business Annual Giving campaign broke a world record when it reached a 70.5 percent participation rate in its 2011 campaign, according to a Tuck press release. Participation in Tuck Annual Giving has historically been higher in comparison to other business schools in the United States and around the world...
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"Looking back, Georgetown was the perfect fit for me. I wanted an urban school, with an international focus and a globally known brand name"
I started business school at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business (McDonough Full-Time MBA Profile) with panic attacks. Once I met my classmates (incredibly accomplished people who were arriving from all walks of life and all corners of the world) and realized the full magnitude of our course load (four new classes every seven weeks, plus four residencies), I thought that a person like me (background in education, no real business experience) could never make it...
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By John A. Byrne, Poets & Quants.
One of the most valuable assets of a top-ranked business school is its alumni network. It’s a major consideration by applicants in choosing an MBA program, and it’s a significant sign of a school’s true brand strength in the marketplace.
But it’s also something that is hard to measure. There is no available metric that will let you know how often the alumni network at a school gets current students internships or jobs. There is no measurement to find out how often an alum returns the call of a student for advice, mentorship, or networking.
There is, however, one very telling number to judge the strength of a school’s alumni network: the percentage of alumni who give money to a school every year. As Paul Danos, dean of Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, puts it, a school’s annual alumni giving rate is “a long-term satisfaction index.”
Alumni wouldn’t be handing over money to a school especially if they felt no affinity toward the institution or were unsatisfied with the MBA experience they received. So high alumni giving rates might well be the single best proxy to assess both the satisfaction of MBAs with an institution as well as the ultimate value of the network a graduate inherits at commencement.
Which business schools do exceptionally well on this index? Year in and year out, the Tuck School beats every other institution in the world when it comes to annual alumni giving. Last year, for example, some 67% of Tuck’s 8,976 living MBAs wrote checks to the school. That is an extraordinary level of support at a time when the average rate of giving for a top-20 business school is roughly 20%.
“That is like the four-minute mile,” boasts Danos. “The appreciation for Tuck grows as our graduates go out and speak to others about their experiences. That long-term satisfaction has to be high given the unheard of rate of giving. I do think it’s a long-term endorsement of the general way we educate.”
This year, Tuck will reach a new milestone, eclipsing the highest participation rate in its history. With a May 31st deadline approaching for its annual giving campaign, more than 68% of its alums have already send in their checks, beating the 67.5% peak reached in 2008. Danos is hopeful that the school might very well hit 70% this year.
And after Tuck? It’s Yale University’s School of Management, which last year saw 46% of its MBA alums reach into their pockets to donate money to the school; the University of Virginia’s Darden School, the beneficiary of a 43% alumni giving rate last year, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, which reported a 41% participation rate by MBA alums....
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By Local Tech Wire, January 18, 2011
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — Timothy Cook, who earned his master's in business at Duke University's Fuqua School, is taking over day-to-day operations at Apple..
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