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Archive for June, 2009

Getting into Stanford and Harvard Business Schools | A Middle East Application.

An Emirati friend of mine was recently accepted to the Harvard and Stanford Business Schools. He generously agreed to answer some questions on the hows and whys.

Stern’s Salomon on Improving the MBA.

NYU Stern’s Robert Salomon and Stanford’s Garth Saloner have ideas on improving the MBA.

How China Sees the World and the Middle East

Interesting Q&A with Ben Simpendorfer on two pet obsessions China and the Middle East in The New Yorker.

Web’s Dead Baby, Web’s Dead.

The Web and Email were great while they lasted. What’s next?

Clear Admit Best MBA Blogs

The new Clear Admit Best MBA Blogs list is out.

Small Business Consulting Program [Columbia Business School]

The Columbia Business School Small Business Consulting Program Fall application is now open.

Cognitive Surplus, Latent Groups and the Cosean Floor | a Clay Shirky *Book 6* Review

Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations | A Book Review.

Future Luxury?

McKinsey take a look at Luxury in Japan and try to fashion some long-term industry trends.

Scoble interviews Fred. [Building43]

As you’d expect, Robert Scoble launched his new community Building43 with some serious web heavy-hitters. Zuckerburg, Marissa Mayer and Fred Wilson are some of the highlights.

Hippocratic MBAs? | The Economist

Harvard Business School students take an ethical oath. The Economist isn’t impressed but starts a readers’ debate to discuss. Meanwhile, an unrelated Economist article on cheating scientists finds that shock, horror scientists too may be ethically challenged. An all too human condition it seems.