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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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Could the German Concept of “Kurzarbeit” Shield Jobs from COVID-19 Unemployment?
June 16, 2020Under Kurzarbeit, the government subsidizes wages for employees who agree to stop working or work a substantially reduced schedule. In exchange, employers agree not to let workers go, and to continue paying them while the government reimburses the payroll expenses.
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What Taylor Swift’s Battle with Private Equity Means for MBAs
May 12, 2020Many MBA students and business school applicants have never heard of the private equity (PE) industry. However, many such folks along with the rest of us are quickly gaining familiarity with this obscure sector. That’s because of intense scrutiny suddenly focused on private equity by a scandal involving one of the biggest names in show business: singer, songwriter, musician, and dancer Taylor Swift.
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Two Views: University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business
May 5, 2020The conventional wisdom says that online MBAs are for older working professionals, and on-campus MBAs are for recent graduates of bachelor’s programs. The conventional wisdom is wrong. The decision between an online and on-campus MBA is an incredibly individual one, which needs to account for the nuance of a student’s goals, context, and preferences.
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How Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey is Challenging Conventional Business Practices
April 21, 2020What MBA program would teach that it’s OK for a CEO to run not one, but two billion-dollar companies headquartered in the United States on a part-time basis—and do it all while living in Africa?
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MBA Admissions: A Buyer’s Market or Fire Sale?
April 13, 2020The time to apply to business school is now. It isn’t next month, it isn’t this summer, and it certainly isn’t next fall. This is a “drop what you’re doing and apply” moment, an extraordinary opportunity that most potential MBA and specialized business master’s degree applicants will probably never again experience during their lives.
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COVID-19 Update: MBA Programs Embrace Online Education
April 6, 2020Discover how business schools are switching to online education because of COVID-19.
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Amazon Prefers Memos to Presentations: Should MBA Programs Require Writing Courses?
April 2, 2020MBA applicants and students who don’t think writing skills are essential to their career success might want to re-evaluate that opinion. Incredibly, the business that hires more MBAs each year than any other employer around the world—about double the number hired by runner-up McKinsey & Company—forbids presentations.
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Stung by Shootings, Will Airbnb’s IPO Implode Like WeWork?
March 25, 2020Online platforms can shield their operations under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, meaning that these companies can escape tremendous dimensions of legal accountability, responsibility—and costs.
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Carlos Ghosn: The Risks of “CEO Disease” & International Assignments for MBAs
March 23, 2020This cautionary tale should serve as a warning to every MBA student around the world not only about the risks of accepting assignments abroad in nations like Japan, but also about the consequences of a mysterious affliction they may face known as “CEO disease.”
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Can Artificial Intelligence Eliminate Top Jobs for Finance MBAs?
March 19, 2020The tech revolution that eliminated many popular jobs in industries like media and publishing hasn’t yet impacted Wall Street. But because of the threat of artificial intelligence (AI), that situation is about to change.
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Can Political Innovation Boost America’s Global Competitiveness by Breaking Partisan Gridlock?
March 16, 2020Viewed through the lens of industry rather than political science, can ranked choice voting (RCV) solve partisan gridlock and improve America’s global economy? Economic experts say yes.
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Seeking Immigration Reform, Business School Deans Write Congress and the President
March 11, 2020In October 2019, the deans of 55 premier business schools and 15 CEOs wrote an open letter to the President and Congressional leaders requesting the immediate relaxation of immigration restrictions on foreign MBA applicants.
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The Coronavirus: COVID-19’s Effects on Business Schools
March 6, 2020The SARS-CoV 2 virus that causes the COVID-19 coronavirus Disease—the world’s number-one story now and for the foreseeable future—has killed more than 3,350 people and infected more than 100,000 in over 60 nations on all continents except Antarctica.
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Restructuring PG&E to Encourage Managerial Responsibility
February 20, 2020What is the crucial aspect of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company story that few are talking about? It isn’t about the crisis resulting from California’s massive wildfires or widespread power shutoffs. Instead, it’s a more fundamental issue: the impact that the ownership of a public utility exerts on the ethical conduct and responsibility of its managers.
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From MBA to Amazon to Career Independence? The Rise of E-Commerce Consulting Careers
February 10, 2020Working for Amazon provides an opportunity to acquire inside information that is highly scarce, extremely valuable, and readily monetizable—even early on in one’s career. That inside track can rapidly enable an MBA to become a successful independent consultant.