Coming up with brilliant, game-changing ideas is what makes the likes of Apple's Steve Jobs so successful, and now researchers say they have identified the five secrets to being a great innovator
Recently my family and I wandered into an outdoor punk-rock festival in our neighborhood. I can't say I fit in. There's no way to look hard-core when you're trying to shoo your children away from the mosh pit.
Roberto Lee Jr, 35, is the President of Fresh Bread & Company in Shanghai. He has an MBA from USC Marshall School of Business and an Executive MBA (EMBA) from INSEAD and Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Picture this: You work for a racing car company that needs to raise $18 million in sponsorship. Do you go with a reliable sponsor that can only offer part of that sum, or take the full $18 million from a company getting bad press for selling arms to a Middle Eastern country?
With the economy still in turmoil, job security is a concern for many. Executive Education talked to three experts to find out what steps you can take to recession-proof your career.
It is a paradox of recessions past: As economies point firmly downwards, there is often an increased demand for MBAs, as would-be CEOs decide the time is right to step back from the jobs market for a couple of years and gain new skills.
Business schools were once a distinctly American proposition, but now, as illustrated by the 2009 version of what is perhaps the leading league table for global MBAs, excellence is being spread around the world.
A specific league table of the best business schools for Hispanic students? Why, some might ask, would anyone need that?
Marius Kloppers was born in South Africa on August 26, 1962.
Why is a university good? Because it is good at teaching? Well, there is a lot more to it than that, particularly one aspect sometimes neglected when students assess potential institutions -- research.
Asian business schools are getting better than ever -- that's the message from the latest Financial Times ranking of global MBAs, which lists three Asia-based programs in the top 20.
Families have certain dynamics -- complex, fluid and emotional -- while businesses have very different ones. So what happens when the two combine?
It is fast becoming a truism of the modern MBA that for a program to be truly cutting edge it also has to be global in outlook.
Africa is generally seen as the continental poor relation in business school terms, lagging behind North America, Europe and Asia, even South America.
One of the key elements of modern business education is the lengths to which schools will go to connect and communicate with students, whether actual or potential.
In comparison with countries like the United States, or even the UK, France sometimes has a popular reputation for economic sluggishness and a centralist approach to business which can strangle enterprises in red tape.
One thing business schools are clearly very good at is producing graduates who are likely to make a lot of money in the future.
There are a number of rankings produced each year for business schools and MBAs, but the one seen as perhaps the most authoritative in global terms is that produced each year by the Financial Times.
Leadership. Increasingly, it is the mantra of business schools intent on producing executives not only conversant in accounts, marketing and finance, but able to inspire and energize their companies.
Even as a fresh crop of students sharpen their pencils for the start of the 2005/06 academic year, the attention of business school recruitment departments has already shifted to next year's intake.
So you're thinking about getting a master's of business administration, and you want to know which school is the best for you. With tuition at top-tier schools reportedly up 55 percent in the past ...
Take a look at some of the thousands of executive MBA course participants around the world and a consistent profile emerges of the kind of person likely to undertake such an endeavor.
With their roots planted firmly in the fertile soil of academic research, business schools are often criticized for their lack of focus on the job of imparting practical skills to their students.
Costs for an executive MBA vary enormously, with location, length of course and the perceived quality of the course provider being some of the key determinants.
Scanning the annual rankings of global MBA and EMBA programs shows the continued dominance of U.S.-based business schools such as Wharton, Kellogg, Stanford, Tuck, Harvard, Stern, Columbia and Chicago GSB.
As European countries grapple with the challenges of economic and political union, work continues on a far-reaching agreement that will reshape executive education across the region.
As companies throughout the world strive to improve performance and boost growth, attention is focusing on the potential economic benefits of professional executive education.
With half its population of three billion under the age of 25 and the wheels of economic activity gathering pace, Asia is experiencing burgeoning demand for executive education.
As competition for executive education students intensifies in Asia, business schools are relying on a mix of brand and reputation to differentiate their offerings.
Name: Jean-Francois Manzoni Title: Coauthor Book: The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome (Harvard Business School Press, October 2002)
JAYNE BUXTON, 26, was bumping along as a $25,000-a-year media buyer in her hometown of Montreal. Then she went to business school and turned into a hot property. Her best offer among six came from ...
A NEW BREED of manager is taking charge in Western Europe. Overwhelmingly he is still male, but that's about all he has in common with the generation of executives that rebuilt European business af...
American executives may be getting cynical, if not sarcastic, about MBAs, but Europe's new young managers are still true believers. As a result business schools are booming. The 280-student l'Insti...
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