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MBAs v Entrepreneurs. [Bill Taylor]
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’.
Kellogg Diaries.
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.
Fred Wilson talks to MBAs.
Fred Wilson talks to NYU and Columbia MBA students about the VC industry for InSITE. Watch all 9 segments.
CBS on H1-Bs.
Columbia Business School’s Pubic Offering blog looks into the effects of the recent stimulus’ package H1-B visa restrictions.
Yes Grad School. No Grad School.
The Economist’s Free Exchange blog responds to Penelope Trunk’s Don’t try to dodge the recession with grad school post.
More Bob Salomon on MBAs [FT]
More insights from HBS’s Salomon on the state of the MBA. On MBA job prospects: the job market has been challenging (to say the least) for graduates of the class of 2009 as bad as it has been for the class of 2009, unfortunately things are shaping up to be worse (dare I say awful) [...]
Seth Godin’s Alternative MBA.
Seth has a proposition for those of you “stuck in a dead end job in publishing, or if you made a not-so-great choice in getting your career started, or if you thought Wall Street would be a different place, or if you just got laid off, or if you’re not crazy about fretting away the next six months waiting to get fired and you’re not quite ready to start your own gig”.
Dubai’s Disappearing Dream Jobs [FT].
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.
MBA World Tour comes to UAE.
The World MBA Fair comes to Dubai and Abu Dhabi on 8th and 10th Dec respectively. LBS, Judge and Wharton are some of the participating school.
MBAs Veer Off Path to Big Finance Jobs [WSJ]
The WSJ reports on recent trends at MBA schools where many students are rethinking their career options for obvious reasons. Consulting, consumer-product, manufacturing and tech companies are proving to be popular alternatives. Smaller finance firms are also seeing increased interest. The talent pool is bigger than it has been for years.
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