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Mark Goulston wrote a new blog post: My Story: From Beauty Queen to an MBA at Rutgers 1 year, 5 months ago
“In the blink of an eye you become this instant celebrity. I couldn’t help but think, ‘I’m just an everyday girl. I’m nobody special.’” In June of 2009, Ashley Shaffer was crowned Miss New Jersey. At just 23-years-old, she embarked on a year-long journey of a lifetime, even competing at the national level in the 2010 [...] -
Mark Goulston commented on the blog post A Moon Mission for the Best B-Schools 1 year, 9 months ago
Thank you Eslam. Very valid point about stating measurable objectives. So what do you suggest they might be? For instance, what would be an outcome that if reached would result in complete, gainful and meaningful employment? For instance, by way of analogy, if a Moon mission for education would be that every child in America [...]
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Mark Goulston wrote a new blog post: A Moon Mission for the Best B-Schools 1 year, 9 months ago
B-Schools! What’s Your Moon Mission? I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. -John F. Kennedy, speech to Congress, May 25, 1961 The Apollo Program ran from 1961 through 1975 and sent six manned missions to [...]
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Mark Goulston commented on the blog post MBA? Or Should It Be an MBS 1 year, 9 months ago
Stephen, I don’t think what you said was harsh, I also like lively debate. In addition, I also like taking occasional poetic license to read between the lines and intuit a little bit about the personalities of my debaters. Hopefully, if I am correct, it might cause them to be aware of things that they [...]
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Mark Goulston commented on the blog post MBA? Or Should It Be an MBS 1 year, 9 months ago
Thanks for your comment, but I think you were too defensive/offensive and too transactionally myopic to realize that I wasn’t choosing Master of Business Values, but Master of Business Service. And I wasn’t choosing to water it down, but to direct the mindset and skillset to be more other than self-serving. I think you missed [...]
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Mark Goulston commented on the blog post Why the MBA Should Be Replaced By the MBS 1 year, 9 months ago
Thank you for taking the time to comment. I agree that too many businesses and business people suffer from “transactional myopia” (find the deal, do the deal, next deal) and don’t think of creating true value, much less being of service.
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Mark Goulston wrote a new blog post: MBA? Or Should It Be an MBS 1 year, 9 months ago
The MBA is dead! Long live the MBS According to Wikipedia: The Master of Business Administration ( MBA) is a master’s degree in business administration , which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. The MBA designation originated in the United States , emerging from the late 19th century as the country industrialized and…[Read more]






