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Admissions Q&A: Global Executive MBA, Class Visits, Next Year’s Application Cycle

Question: I’m interested in the Global MBA for Executives. Is it is full-time or part-time? Answer: The GEMBA format includes both in-person international residencies and distance learning. The residencies occur at various locations around the world and the distance learning happens weekly. Students are categorized as full-time students, but are able to work full time while they [...]

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Real Students of HBS

Jyot, a second year student from Los Angeles, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a dual degree in Industrial Engineering and Political Science/Government.  Upon graduation, he joined one of his professors and a PhD student to start a company that provides operational consulting for bio-pharmaceutical firms.  Jyot left that venture to help his [...]

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Academic Research as Unfiltered Water

Contents of our research journals are like unfiltered water. Decision and policy makers should stand forewarned before they use the contents of academic journals to guide them in their work. Fortunately, most of them maintain a healthy skeptical attitude to our findings and prescriptions until they have more evidence on their efficacy. This is not [...]

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Leading Voices in Higher Education: Anne-Marie Slaughter

A couple weeks ago Dr Anne-Marie Slaughter came to Dartmouth and gave a lecture titled “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All: Getting to a Place of Equal Opportunity.” The lecture was part of Dartmouth’s Leading Voices in Higher Education speaker series, and organized in part through Tuck’s Women in Business club. I was able [...]

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Texas MPA is #1…Again!

The Texas MPA was ranked first in the nation for the seventh year in a row in the U.S. News and World Report’s survey of Best Graduate Schools! Visit our MPA rankings web page to learn about recent faculty accomplishments, highlighting the hard work that makes ours the top graduate accounting program in the country.

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EmoryMAC 2013: Making Marketing Analytics Actionable

EmoryMAC Student Consultancy Projects Workshop Goizueta Business School hosted the third annual Emory Marketing Analytics Conference (EmoryMAC) on March 22. The conference brings together students, faculty, alumni, and local practitioners with a shared interest in data-driven approaches to marketing. Speakers included representatives from The Atlanta Braves, The Coca-Cola Company, Delta Air Lines, Home Depot, and [...]

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An Hour of Inspiration from the Etsy CEO

The other week, I heard an inspiring presentation by a man who took his hard-earned Duke undergrad degree and leveraged his newfound alumni network to score the job of a lifetime — pizza delivery guy. Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson. Fortunately, he didn’t stop there; otherwise I think Fuqua would have found someone different to present [...]

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Moving Up the Chain

  Ralph Bower, 10EMBA, president of Popeyes' US division Ralph Bower 10EMBA knows a lot about persistence. His first job in the restaurant industry, as a manager-in-training in the late 1980s, paid him a legal rate of $4.75 an hour. “I like to boast that it took me only six months to work my way [...]

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Greetings from Managua!

Greetings from Managua (or somewhere between Miami and LA en route to my Indonesia International Experience to be exact)!  I just wanted to share some of my thoughts after my Global Social Enterprise trip to Nicaragua, where I was able to reconnect with my international development roots and social entrepreneurship passions firsthand! Off to greener [...]

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It’s Never Too Early

The business school application process is such a long project that when it was over there was something of a void in my life. Planning to recruit for banking, I took on prepping for that process as the object of my next obsession. Everyone will tell you that recruiting gets started once you set foot [...]

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