BSchools.org Blog - Resources for Business School Students
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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5 Reasons to Pursue an MBA Degree
November 1, 2022According to new research, the reasons driving the overwhelming majority of business school applicants to pursue MBA degrees have little to do with higher salaries. This article explores that misconception and examines the actual reasons why students seek MBA degrees.
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Can Free Software Alone Get You Through an MBA Program?
October 28, 2022Adobe’s decision to offer some premium software for free demonstrates how the trend appears to be gaining traction so rapidly that graduating from a top MBA program might no longer require much in the way of paid software—or any paid software at all.
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Big Surprises in the Latest Remote Work Research
October 13, 2022The latest research on remote work movements like work-from-home (WFH) and work-from-anywhere (WFA) has upended several generally accepted assumptions about these new trends. Below we review some of the more recent findings that are especially significant for the pre-MBA and MBA students in our audience here at BSchools.
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The Great Resistance: Return-to-Office Enforcement Collapses
October 6, 2022Suddenly, businesses find themselves embroiled in a new challenge known as the Great Resistance. At most companies, return-to-office initiatives have disintegrated into colossal failures because many employees are declining to come back to their old workplaces. Why is this?
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What’s a Flipped MBA Classroom?
September 16, 2022Recently here at BSchools we pointed out that online MBA programs carry extraordinarily large startup costs, in part because online curricula require sizable investments in production facilities and equipment. These programs also carry high ongoing upgrade costs, especially at highly-ranked business schools that exploit competitive advantages from new technology. However, at one top program, a different and surprising objective behind these investments has also emerged.
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Can a Lean Canvas Replace a Traditional Business Plan?
September 14, 2022Within the past 15 years, new kinds of business plan possibilities have captured the imagination of entrepreneurs. Some of these planning approaches—which embody radical departures from the process of drafting traditional business plans—appear to be gaining momentum.
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How Managers with MBAs Impact Workers’ Pay & Company Performance
August 29, 2022The surprising study draws two remarkable conclusions. First, it found that managers who earned business degrees at both the master’s and undergraduate levels actually cut their employees' wages over time. Second, the research also found that despite earning substantially greater salaries, business school-trained managers were not more productive than their counterparts who lack such degrees.
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What is Work-From-Anywhere (WFA)? A Shift for Employers & Employees
August 18, 2022Work-from-home (WFH) is so 2020. The latest workplace trend no longer embodies the remote work-from-home model or even the hybrid model where post-Covid employees spend one or two days a week back in their old offices. The cutting-edge trend is actually WFA, which stands for work-from-anywhere.
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An MBA During the Great Resignation?
August 17, 2022Discover why delaying applications to MBA programs during the Great Resignation so that future MBAs can take advantage of attractive pre-MBA job opportunities during a “hot” labor market makes little to no economic sense.
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Acing the MBA Essay Questions - Tips & Reviews
August 12, 2022Focusing on Harvard Business School application essays written by candidates who won admission, our previous guide in this series presented general principles for writing compelling long-form MBA essays. However, this guide takes a different approach. This article presents specific tips for writing short-answer essays constrained by tight word limits.
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Personal Reference Letters for Business School – Tips & Templates
August 3, 2022A great recommender is an MBA candidate’s champion. They need to fit the profile of the “raving fans” cited by management gurus like Ken Blanchard and Tony Robbins. Because the likelihood of a great recommendation letter mostly depends on whom the candidate selects to write it, their enthusiasm level amounts to a crucial benchmark and a major deciding factor.
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Online MBA Students Now Exceed Full-Time On-Campus MBAs in U.S.
June 6, 2022Here’s a surprise: the number of online MBA students just surpassed those enrolled in full-time, on-campus programs for the first time in the United States. That’s according to historic new data released by the world’s main business school accrediting board, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).
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Are Digital Dollars the Future of Banking?
May 23, 2022Understanding the public relations damage that this broadcast did to the Fed’s plan to launch its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) first requires understanding how this new form of currency differs from other kinds of money.
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Dealing with Workplace Ambiguity - How to Increase Happiness on the Job
May 16, 2022Ambiguity in the workplace is one of the most commonly reported sources of stress and anxiety. The feelings generated can feel outsized. Because it is caused by the surrounding workplace, the individual can often do very little to change the environment outside of their scope.
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Is the U.S. Already in a Recession? An MBA Application Opportunity
May 12, 2022Discover new forecasting methods that can provide MBA applicants with earlier awareness of an impending economic downturn, giving them extra time to prepare more competitive MBA applications that can help them win entry at better business schools—where they can ride out a recession predicted by leading economists for 2022.