Basically, no.
The Economist’s annual Which MBA? is out.
The Economist comes out with its latest Which MBA? global rankings.
Jon Oliver asks Columbia’s Bruce Kogut if he’s ever had a student he thought would do some serious jail-time and then chats to Harvard MBAs about the ethics oath.
Business Week has some hopeful if circuitous tales from Haas, Harvard and Stanford MBAs who graduated during the last recession.
‘Despite the negative press, many MBA students remain a force for good’ says The Economist. Woohoo!
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.
Bill Taylor asks whether its time to stop using ‘students from elite business schools as a proxy for “talent” in the business world’ and adds ‘maybe it’s time to change our minds about what kinds of people are best-equipped to become business leaders’.
Paul Kedrosky reports on the consistently accurate Harvard MBA contrarian signal
The FT’s John Gapper looks into Ray Soifer’s annual analysis of the career paths of Harvard MBAs, which shows that a record-breaking proportion of this elite became bankers or financiers when they graduated this summer.