MBAs Think They Can Change Biz For Better

One Liners:

 

From Drucker to Now: What’s An MBA Good For, Anyway?

Source: Fortune

The New MBA Internship Recruiting Season Is Now

Source: Bloomberg Businessweek

 

Overcoming Three Common Hurdles For International MBA Applicants

Source: US News and World Report

Prep Test For MBA Goes Mobile

Source: Boston Herald

What Makes a Good MBA Candidate A Great MBA Candidate?

Source: Business Because

First Step To Fixing Gender Bias In Business School: Admit the Problem

Source: The Atlantic

Duke Fuqua Launching Business School in China

Source: Triangle Business Journal

MBA Humor:

 

Business Strategies For A Dead Horse

The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from one generation to

the next, says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best

strategy is to dismount. However, in modern business, because of the heavy

investment factors to be taken into consideration, often other strategies

have to be tried with dead horses, including the following:

1. Buying a stronger whip.

2. Changing riders.

3. Threatening the horse with termination.

4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.

5. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.

6. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.

7. Appointing an intervention team to re-animate the dead horse.

8. Creating a training session to increase our riding ability.

9. Re-classifying the dead horse as living-impaired.

10. Change the form so that it reads: “This horse is not dead.”

11. Hire outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

12. Harness several dead horses together for increased speed.

13. Donate the dead horse to a recognized charity, thereby deducting its

full original cost.

14. Providing additional funding to increase the horse’s performance.

15. Do a time management study to see if the lighter riders would improve

productivity.

16. Purchase an after-market product to make dead horses run faster.

17. Declare that a dead horse has lower overhead and therefore performs

better.

18. Form a quality focus group to find profitable uses for dead horses.

19. Rewrite the expected performance requirements for horses.

20. Say things like, “This is the way we have always ridden this horse.”

21. Increasing the standards to ride dead horses.

22. Comparing the state of dead horses in todays environment.

23. Declaring that “No horse is too dead to beat.”

24. Do a Cost Analysis study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper.

25. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.

26. Apply for a government subsidy to retrain dead horses.

Source: Anvari.org

 

Tweets of the Week:

 

Ben Hsieh @ben_hsieh1h

Few things are as quiet as the business school on Friday morning…

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Richard Ruzyllo @spygun9h

When a Citibanker I asked my most senior American boss about his ideal employee. He replied “A sociopath with an MBA“. I was half-qualified