The Financial Times’ Lex asks: Where are tomorrow’s masters of the universe? Red in tooth-and-claw investment banks are pulling out all the stops to woo graduates. Nomura of Japan, arguably the world’s most socialist nation, is resorting to fat paycheques. Graduates are reportedly being offered $75,000, triple the average starting pay in Japan. US and [...]
Business Week checks in on what B Schools and MBA students are doing to succeed in a tough recruiting environment: turning to technology and the web.
Business Week has some hopeful if circuitous tales from Haas, Harvard and Stanford MBAs who graduated during the last recession.
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EIU’s Which MBA have a great diaries series following the fortunes of five MBA students from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Makes for some sobering reading.
Simeon Kerr in the FT reports on the rapidly changing job prospects in Dubai (summary: it’s a buyer’s market). Real estate and finance are generally out although senior replacement positions are still being actively filled. The rest of the region led by Doha and Abu Dhabi and followed by Saudi and Kuwait are faring better.
Paul Kedrosky reports on the consistently accurate Harvard MBA contrarian signal
Business Week reports on how the financial and economic meltdowns are affecting B Schools. Job offers are down while MBA applications are up.
NYU’s Robert Saloman says the worst is still to come for MBA grads. He’s even more pessimistic about the classes of 2010.
The New York Times Economix Blog asks – Where Ex- and Would-Be Wall Streeters Might Be Headed. There’s a cool chart illustrating the relation correlation between graduate enrollment and unemployment.