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Featured MBA Student Blog: The Darden Routine

Earlier this month, we announced that Financial Times ranked Darden No. 1 in the world for general management. In the following student blog, Genie Ko writes about how Darden’s general management curriculum impacted her First Year experience and prepared her as an emerging leader: “Our FY core curriculum includes Leading Organizations, Managerial Communications, Accounting, Finance, Strategy, Decision Analysis, [...]

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Role of Gender in Workplace Negotiations

NEW YORK—September 26, 2011—A study conducted by Columbia Business School Professor Michael Morris, Chavkin–Chang Professor of Leadership, and Emily Amanatullah, now an Assistant Professor of Management at McCombs School of Business of the University of Texas at Austin, finds that while women fare worse economically than men in many distributive negotiations, including salary negotiations, women [...]

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Chat Live with the Lauder Program at Wharton

Join the Lauder Admissions team and current Lauder students for an online chat on Wednesday, November 7th from 5:00-6:00 pm ET.  Lauder combines a world-renowned Wharton MBA, a Master’s in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts & Sciences, and customized language training in one of nine languages: Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, [...]

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The Wave of Business School

I took a deep breath and threw myself face first into the Pacific Ocean. The cold hit me hard, and my heart began to race as I counted down the seconds I had to hold my breath- 20, 19, 18. My mind drifted to graduate school applications and I wondered if anyone else at business [...]

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Role of Gender in Workplace Negotiations

NEW YORK—September 26, 2011—A study conducted by Columbia Business School Professor Michael Morris, Chavkin–Chang Professor of Leadership, and Emily Amanatullah, now an Assistant Professor of Management at McCombs School of Business of the University of Texas at Austin, finds that while women fare worse economically than men in many distributive negotiations, including salary negotiations, women [...]

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What’s Happening In Turkey?

116th Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: What’s Happening In Turkey? As we were chit-chatting with the audience before kicking off today’s roundtable, an angel investor, Can Atacik, from Istanbul introduced himself. It was timely, because Turkey has been on my mind for a while, and I am very interested in learning more about what’s happening in [...]

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UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

Overview: UNC-Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business provides a hands-on approach towards business education. Citing leadership training as a key strength, Kenan-Flagler provides numerous programs to improve students’ application of key business knowledge.  The institution is also known to be a leader in green business: the Center for Sustainable Enterprise was among the first programs [...]

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Pursuing an MBA – The working professional Perspective

MBA is a career option which is highlighted a lot and is a dream career for a lot of students and working people. Different people have different views regarding an MBA degree but what allures most people towards pursuing an MBA can be described in three scenarios: Scenario 1 – The fat pay checks that [...]

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