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The BSchools.org blog helps online MBA students choose the right business school and make the most out of life beyond graduation. Readers can learn about what to expect when pursuing an online business degree, including information about the application process, exceptional professors leading programs, and MBA alternatives. Additionally, there are detailed guides to scholarships, internship opportunities (paid and unpaid), conferences, careers, and prospective salaries, as well as features about the ever-changing business landscape.
Check back regularly for interviews with degree program administrators and tips for successful applications, among other resources.
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Combatting a Dire Shortage of Accountants, EY Boosts Starting Salaries
January 16, 2025America’s accounting industry now faces its most dire staffing crisis in its history. And because the mainstream media has mostly ignored this story, few Americans outside Wall Street and the financial community have heard about this crisis or how it could affect them.
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Is Educational Testing Service (ETS) Headed for Bankruptcy? (Part 2)
December 3, 2024As if the news wasn’t bad enough for testing services like GMAC and ETS, new factors are now emerging that could intensify that industry’s “perfect storm” of adversity into a “perfect hurricane.”
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Applications No Longer Required by Online MBA Program at Northeastern University
November 14, 2024To improve accessibility by potential students, Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business announced it has launched a pioneering approach to admissions for its fall 2024 courses. The business school has introduced a disruptive new option, performance-based admissions (PBA), for two graduate programs. They include the school’s online MBA degree (OMBA) and its four-month online graduate certificate in business administration (OGCBA).
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Strong MBA Recruiting On the Way, Predicts New GMAC Poll
October 29, 2024Certainly, the 2023 recruiting season wasn’t exactly the best for MBA hiring in recent years. But now, a new survey reports optimistic projections that predict strong hiring. That’s largely because employer confidence in graduate management education (GME) and its capacity to prepare business school graduates for success has achieved new heights since the pandemic.
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The Future of the MBA is Online, Says New Survey
October 24, 2024Learn about the rapidly changing preferences of MBA and specialized business master’s degree students, plus the critical need for business schools to adapt to a dynamic, competitive, and technology-driven target market.
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How Apple’s Web Eraser Could Impact Business Education Coverage
August 7, 2024Apple made plenty of news during its June 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference. The biggest story was the firm’s push into artificial intelligence support for many of its software applications, branded as “Apple Intelligence.” The company also announced a new partnership with OpenAI that will allow users to tap into ChatGPT directly through Siri and through many of the other Apple apps instead of the current method that routes all access to the chatbot through a web browser.
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Boeing’s Latest Crisis: MBA Professors Weigh In
April 11, 2024Once again, another management crisis at Boeing is the hottest business story in the United States. Following the January 2024 blowout of a door plug on a new 737 jetliner carrying 177 passengers and crew at 16,000 feet over Portland, a top management shakeout at Boeing grabbed headlines late in March.
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Biz Flash: What to Know Before Starting a Private Home Care Business
January 25, 2024Getting started in this industry requires knowledge and preparation to navigate the complexities of the healthcare sector. Keep reading to learn what she thinks everyone needs to know before starting their own private home care business.
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Upskilling in Uncertain Times: What Job Seekers Should Know in 2024
January 17, 2024In 2022, the Great Resignation, which kicked off an era of abundant corporate job openings, high salaries and enticing benefits packages, seemed to end as quickly as it began. Since then, the pendulum has swung back in the other direction, with employers now back in the power seat. According to TIME, there’s currently an average of one job opening for every two applicants on LinkedIn, a significant difference from 2022, when the ratio was one-to-one.
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OpenAI's Sam Altman Firing and Reinstatement: Professors Weigh In
January 11, 2024In a whirlwind of events that unfolded over only a week, OpenAI—the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research firm known around the world for its ChatGPT chatbot platform—suddenly found itself at the center of a leadership crisis.
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Harvard Business School in Turmoil: Seven Tenured Professors Attack Administration
December 21, 2023A group of Harvard Business School tenured faculty say that what they learned after the school found Dr. Francesca Gino guilty of research misconduct has “rocked our confidence in HBS.” In an op-ed that the Harvard Crimson published in October 2023, the seven professors spoke out “anonymously, for fear of retaliation” by the business school. They allege that the administration at HBS violated policy development norms by secretly changing the school’s decades-old Research Integrity Policy, and did so specifically after receiving allegations concerning work by their colleague, Dr. Gino.
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Guide to MBA Careers – Business Administration Career Paths
December 7, 2023Over the last couple of years, the technology industry has begun to chip away at the share of MBA graduates joining the finance world, and more specifically, investment banking. Some studies even suggest that tech has already, or soon will, become the top recruiter of MBA graduates.
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Biz Flash: What to Know Before Starting a Consulting Business
November 28, 2023Knowing everything or how to solve every challenge is impossible, particularly when running a business. Suppose an organization struggles with a particular issue that its internal team cannot resolve due to a lack of expertise or resources. In that case, they often will call on a consultant who can help them.
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Analysis: Half of CEOs Say AI Could Replace Most of Their Role, Survey Says
November 16, 2023MBA programs train top managers, but is the training of these future leaders adapting rapidly enough in the face of artificial intelligence? The jaw-dropping results of a new poll by edX found that CEOs and C-suite chief executives believe AI will redefine their roles by performing much larger shares of their job responsibilities than ever thought possible.
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Online MBA Programs for International Students
November 6, 2023For international students, pursuing an MBA has become quite a popular choice. In today’s modern world, education has been revolutionized by technology and online master of business administration programs have recently emerged as convenient and flexible options for prospective business professionals looking to balance their education with professional and personal commitments.