A Marriage-Driven MBA Boom?

Blast from the Past: Guide to the Best Summer Programs

“Take the summer off!”

That’s what the experts say. You’ll need the rest. For the next two years, business school will consume your entire life. Readings… projects… clubs… internships… job hunting.

“It was exhausting enough just getting into the program,” you think. “Who wants to spend 3-4 weeks (and thousands of dollars) reviewing microeconomics and balance sheets?”

Then again, it’s easier learning the fundamentals in the summer than during the school year. An MBA program doesn’t slow down for anyone. If you were a student who skipped accounting 101 in favor of modern cinema, you have a steep learning curve ahead. And you’re at a serious disadvantage compared to your classmates.

So which programs offer summer packages to help you master the fundamentals? How much do they cost? And what can you expect? Click below to check out Poets and Quants’ profiles of the top 10 summer programs.

Source: Poets and Quants

Video of the Week

Should I Re-Take the GMAT?

Source: The MBA Tour

One Liners:

What Matters Most To You, and Why? The Stanford MBA Wants To Know, and So Should You

Source: Forbes

MBAs Are For Managers, Not Entrepreneurs

Source: Huffington Post

Seven Business School Deans Share Their Most Successful Solutions To the 21st-Century Problems Their Institutions Have Faced

Source: Business Education

St. Norbert College to Launch MBA Program

Source: ABC WBAY

The Uncomfortable Feel of a Very Comfortable Place

Source: Financial Times

Business Schools Are Stuck in a Self-Reinforcing Bubble

Source: Bloomberg Businessweek

MBA Humor

“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats”

– Howard Aiken

“If you owe the bank $100, that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.”

– J. Paul Getty

“If you don’t know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues’ initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.”

– Malcolm S. Forbes

“If at first you don’t succeed, take the tax loss.”

– Kirk Kirkpatrick

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”

– Bertrand Russell

Source: about.com

Tweets of the Week:

Karl Fife ‏@karlfife

@e4VoIP Good luck finding another brand of cereal in the cafeteria at the Kellogg business school. 🙂

Danielle J ‏@NoImDanielle

Girl sells 117 boxes of Girl Scout cookies outside a marijuana shop. Someone get her to business school, stat. She’s gonna be a star.

danpallotta ‏@danpallotta

Believe in yourself. At 26 I was wait-listed, then rejected by Harvard Business School. 15 years later they did a case study on my company.

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