MBAs Guide

Calm amid the storm: Why MBA courses have never had it so good

"We're like The Apprentice, only nicer," says Terry Kendrick, MBA director at Norwich Business School. During the course, students find themselves pitched in competition with each other in a way that resembles the popular television series: in teams, they create an event to make money for charity. "But we give them a couple of months to do it, rather than a day, and we're not Sir Alan Sugar," he says.

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'I spotted a gap in advertising': How one student hatched a quirky internet venture to pay his fees

Thursday, 4 June 2009

A student living on £100 a month in London has found an ingenious way to fund himself through an MBA course. Whereas most people work for a few years to gain experience and save money before embarking on the prestigious Masters degree, Spyros Pyrgiotis, 24, is in a hurry to gain the qualification he hopes will give him the skills to found a business. He plans to be the youngest to enrol on the MBA course at Kingston University's business school and is in a race against time because he needs to find the £17,000 fees by September.

Recession blame game: Philip Delves Broughton answers his critics

Thursday, 4 June 2009

Delves Broughton caused a storm by suggesting that business schools were largely responsible for the financial crisis.

Business of survival: The MBA universe is expanding despite the global recession

Thursday, 4 June 2009

Schools are striving to find new selling points to attract students

International ambitions: Pocket-sized Durham aims to stand out as a world leader in business education

Thursday, 4 June 2009

Rob Dixon has a naughty sense of humour. "I don't know if you've ever mentioned Durham to people abroad, but they probably think it's in North Carolina," says the dean of the Durham Business School, with an impish grin. The self-deprecating joke might cause more po-faced colleagues to choke on their equations. But Professor Dixon is making a serious point: how can a medium-sized institution such as Durham, albeit a very reputable one, stand out in the increasingly competitive and international world of MBAs?

Spiritual awakening: Students are being drawn to the teachings of an octogenarian professor of business spirituality

Thursday, 4 June 2009

The time is clearly right for the business world to listen carefully to Paul de Blot. As wave after wave of moral and ethical crises afflict business and political systems, his teachings as professor in business spirituality at Nyenrode Business University in the Netherlands begin to acquire the status of required reading.

Open University Business School celebrates 25 years by taking its MBA into China, India and South America

Thursday, 4 June 2009

A few weeks before an Open University Business School course starts, a fat parcel arrives at the student's home, full of reading material. It can come as a shock.

Best of all possible worlds: How to mix and match distance, part-time and full-time learning

Thursday, 4 June 2009

In these uncertain economic times, it can be hard to decide whether or not to do an MBA. On the one hand, you know it will improve your qualifications, boost your networks and get you ahead of the crowd. On the other hand, it's probably unwise to leave a secure job or put yourself out of the loop on the job-hunting market.

Back to the future: Restored at a cost of €35m, ESMT's story is that of modern Berlin

Thursday, 4 June 2009

Your eye immediately alights on the quasi-baroque entrance to the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT). It stands four storeys high, is adorned with fine sculptures and two golden balconies. But the façade is probably fake and is out of keeping with the rest of the Sixties building. Its story is that of modern Berlin. In a reversal typical of the city's history, the campus of one of the Continent's newest and most ambitious business schools was previously communist East Germany's state council building.

Expand your horizons: Experience global business practices at first hand with an international elective

Thursday, 4 June 2009

Last year, in a market in Pretoria, Samantha Chadwick bought a cheap bracelet, a hand-made, black-and-red bangle, made of beads. It has become one of the most important items she owns.

Scoop!: How two students set up an ice cream business

Thursday, 9 April 2009

Two years ago Carlo Del Mistro, 27, from Lake Como in northern Italy, was working as a strategist with Lehman Brothers in London – but he didn't see his future in banking. He left to take a full-time MBA at London Business School, where his wife Simone was also doing a one-year Masters in finance course.

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