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From Wharton to Carnegie Mellon, B-Schools Set Up Shop in San Francisco - WSJ

December 6, 2012, Wall Street Journal

More Business Schools, Such as Wharton and Carnegie Mellon's Tepper, Stake Claims in the San Francisco Bay Area

Business schools warn students against entering saturated markets. But they may not be following their own advice—at least not in the San Francisco Bay area, where a number of schools from around the country have recently opened or expanded satellite programs...

"What does Business want from Business Schools" - Sir Richard Lambert, Chancellor of Warwick University

EFMD.BlogActiv.eu, 30 October, 2012

In his recent contribution to the EFMD business magazine Global Focus, Sir Richard Lambert, Chancellor of Warwick University, suggests four key issues that businesses will require of their future leaders: Ability to manage diversity; Capacity to deal with uncertainty; A proper understanding of the role and workings of government; A developed understanding of the role, responsibilities and purposes of business itself.

EFMD would like to share this article with its blogactiv readers as another reflection from the community of Business Schools on the future of business education and to ask if it responds to recent socio-economic transformations. It can also be seen as a reference to the current policy evolution and discussions in relation to the roles and impact of higher education institutions...

The Mod Quad: The Best and Most Beautiful B-School Campuses

May 15, 2012, MBA Programs.org

The intensity of business school can stretch beyond the classroom. As a student in an MBA program, you may find yourself spending much more time on campus than you initially expected, thanks to time spent working on group projects, participating in extracurricular committees and activities, networking with professors, and just plain hanging out. Campus can become like your second home, so it can be important to choose a school that's nestled in the attractive arm of a fully-loaded campus. To help you make a decision about where you'll be spending the next few years, we've selected the top 50 business school campuses in the world, based on location, facilities, professors, and overall campus culture. This list includes some of the top MBA schools in USA rankings (in no particular order):

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Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth: Hanover, N.H.; student population: 550; The breath-taking New England landscape and quaint college town location of Tuck are just some of the benefits to attending business school at Dartmouth. Still, the atmosphere is pastoral, making campus a truly pleasant place to spend time, while you bust your butt facing down some of the most difficult academic challenges offered at a U.S. business school.

Deans Peter Henry (Stern) and Robert Bruner (Darden) - CNBC video "MBA Students: Wall S. vs Silicon Valley"

CNBC video 14 February, 2012

Pulse of Commerce Index up 1.1% in October - UCLA Anderson (bschool) forecast

www.ceridianindex.com

uclaforecast.com

For fifty years, the UCLA Anderson Forecast has provided forecasts for the economies of California and the United States. Founded by professor Robert M. Williams in 1952, the national forecast has been recognized as one of the most accurate, and has a reputation for being unbiased – a factor that the numerous corporate and Wall Street forecasts cannot lay claim to...

Business School Admissions Needs an Overhaul - Businessweek

November 02, 2011

To diminish the role of admissions consultants, B-schools need to change the application process. For starters, they should downplay essays

Dean John Quelch of CEIBS - aspires to make CEIBS a top 10-ranked research-focused business school

Poets & Quants

...Quelch, who aspires to make CEIBS a top 10-ranked, research-focused business school, is no stranger to administration. He was dean of London Business School from 1998 to 2001 and later served as senior associate dean at Harvard Business School (HBS)...

Dean Andreas Pinkwart of The Leipzig Graduate School of Management - "We are small, but great"

MBA-Channel.com by Kirstin von Elm, 11 of August 2011

The Leipzig Graduate School of Management (Wikipedia) wants to grow, but with consideration for quality and a sense of proportion. Bachelor degrees will not be offered but a family-friendly part-time MBA, more personable service and new scholarships. Rector Andreas Pinkwart spoke about his plans to MBA-Channel.com.

Professor Pinkwart, for five years you were Innovation Minister in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, a very important technological centre. Do you think that the economy of a country known for its research and technology should invest more in the training of its employees?

Yes absolutely, in order to remain competitive companies must do more. However, I have noticed a positive trend. HR managers are constantly confronted with the issue of recruiting and retaining good employees. More and more people show interest in investing time and money in personal development and therefore in their own careers. Increasingly employees choose their employers according to their willingness to offer attractive professional training and support. Consequently, this increases the pressure on the training provider.

Increasing willingness to pay - increasing demands: Is it not difficult for a relatively small German business school to compete against the educational offers of renowned German universities?

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Dean Dezsö J. Horváth, of the Schulich School of Business (Toronto) - "Our Indian campus will be world class"

Article of the Hindustan Times, July 12, 2011.

Dezsö J. Horváth, dean of the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, is one of the longest serving business school deans in the world (He has been Dean at Schulich since 1988). Someone who has been one of the key figures in forging of ties between the Schulich School and the GMR Group (best known for the Delhi and Hyderabad airports) for setting up a top-ranked international B-school in Hyderabad, Horváth shares with HT his plans for the Hyderabad campus, the education that will be delivered to Indian and international students and how he hopes the Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations) Bill will get through Parliament on time...

(bill no 10.(57 of 2010) of the Parliament of India, Rajya Sabha, website)

Blair Sheppard to leave Fuqua as he heads for China - FT

Article of the Financial Times, Della Bradshaw, July 25, 201

Blair Sheppard, one of most innovative business school deans in the business, is to spearhead Duke University’s push into China by taking up a new role in fund-raising and development for Duke Kunshan University, which is being established near Shanghai. In doing so he will step down as dean of Duke’s Fuqua school of business, an appointment he has held since 2007...

Kenan-Flager debate the US debt crisis - July 25, with Charlie Rose

www.kenaninstitute.unc.edu/DebtCrisis

Dean Peter Tufano in the magazine of Said Business School

Not an ivory tower, June 30, 2011

In December 2010, Professor Peter Tufano, Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management at Harvard Business School, was appointed as the next Peter Moores Dean of Oxford University’s Saїd Business School.

Before taking up his post, Tufano embarked on a number of fact-finding missions to talk to faculty, students, alumni, supporters and administrators across the Oxford University global network and find out more about the challenges the School is facing.  At the same time, he spoke to CEOs, business executives, B-school deans, experts in various disciplines, and prospective students to gain an external perspective on the School and its opportunities in business education...

UNC Makes Risky Online Bet (MBA@UNC) - WSJ

Article of WSJ, July 7, 2011

Top-20 Business School Aims to Extend Its Global Reach With Internet M.B.A.

The University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School is taking its brand online.

While online programs are still mostly seen as the purview of for-profit schools, like the University of Phoenix and Capella University, UNC is hoping to change that image.

The business school this Monday launched an online M.B.A. program with 19 students, dubbed MBA@UNC, that will offer the same core curriculum as its regular full-time M.B.A. program. It is the first online program of its kind from a top-20 U.S. business school.

The Money Chase (CNBC) - Inside Harvard Business School

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Stanford GSB move to Knight Management Center

"Open for Business! Our new home is ready after 10 years of planning and 3 years of construction. Read the details

Please join us on April 29 to celebrate a community-wide launch and Open House of the Stanford GSB's Knight Management Center. We'll have an afternoon full of food and entertainment, special guests, and a few surprises.

We are welcoming alumni, friends, students, faculty, and staff from throughout Stanford, business leaders, and prospective students for this historic milestone."