Considering Non-Tradional MBA Options: Business Education Trends

Considering Non-Traditional MBA Options: Business Education Trends by Andrew Scharf, Head of the WCW Group Most potential MBA candidates have a traditional focus when they consider further professional training. Were you to execute a survey at any MBA trade fair room asking the participants, which school they would like to attend, you would receive a conventional litany of responses. The list is what we in the trade refer to as the “usual suspects”: Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB, ...

The MBA Season: Business Education Trends

The MBA Season: Business Education Trends Viewpoint by Andrew Scharf, Head of the WCW Group With September upon us, we are entering what is referred to as the opening of the MBA application season. There is much in the news to engage and distract you. It could be something on Google, earthquakes, a Hollywood scandal, or even the football season. The smart prospective candidates are focused and have begun to get their act together by building their essays, recommendations, CV and applica...

Summer In The City, The Value Of Interships: Career Management

Summer In The City, The Value of Internships: Career Management Viewpoint by Andrew Scharf, Head of the WCW Group Yesterday with "Le Grand Depart" over 2.5 million people fled Paris for the summer holidays. Although it was also the first weekend for the much awaited summer sales most shopping districts did not have their usual throngs. If the new Ralph Lauren store was empty enough to get into during the sale this should tell you something. This phenomena is typical of European cities at t...

In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash: Trends In Business Education

In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash: Trends In Business Education Viewpoint by Andrew Scharf, Head of the WCW Group The past year has produced a legacy of mea culpa from the corporate world. Jean Marie Messier of Vivendi has recently apologized for his “misjudgements”. The world has suffered from a consistent failure in business and regulatory leadership. The financial industry serves as handy scapegoats, but remember where there is smoke, there is fire. To top it off, even the top...

Special Report/MBA Admissions/Trends in Business Education: Chicago-Booth Reports Highest Ever Enrollment

News/Special Report/Business Education/MBA Trends/MBA Admissions: WCW Special Report: Top MBAs are reporting the smallest "summer melt"; at Chicago-Booth, this means the largest enrolment in its history by the WCW Editorial Team "Summer Melt" has nothing to do with ice-cream in the noon day sun on a hot day. It is a jargon term used by the leading business schools to describe a trend of MBA students who are accepted and the relationship to how many actually enroll once they are admitted. ...

News/Special Report: Chicago Booth Releases “The Economics of Prostitution”

News/ Social Trends: Trading Tricks: The Economics of Prostitution, an empirical analysis of the world's oldest profession by the WCW Editorial Team Most crimes involve a victim and a perpetrator. The perpetrator typically looks for his victim and the victim avoids the perpetrator as much as he can. The crime of prostitution, however, is quite different. There are two parties involved but it isn't clear who the perpetrator is and who the victim is. Moreover, it is in the interest of bot...

Business Education: Chicago Booth Launches Loan Programme for International Students

Business Education/ Foreign students able to receive federal lending without a US co-signer by the WCW Editorial Team The University of Chicago has signed a participation letter with the new International Student Loan Programme (ISLP), which will provide loans requiring no co-signer to international students at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. This is clearly going to be music to the ears of international students. Chicago Booth is not the only one concerned by the issue...

News/ Business: Exploring The Dynamics Of The Gender Earnings Gap

Special Report: Exploring the dynamics of the gender earnings gap The WCW Editorial Team Despite the narrowing of the gender gap in business education, there is a growing sense that women are not getting ahead fast enough in the corporate and financial world. New research by Marianne Bertrand, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago-Booth School of Business and two colleagues from Harvard University, reveals why female MBAs have not done as well as male MBAs in the job market. ...

News/ Measuring Trust: Introducing the FTI

News/Business: Gaining a fresh perspective on financial questions - Introducing the Financial Trust Index (Based on the research of Paola SAPIENZA & Luigi ZINGALES) by Brad Wible, Kellogg Insight Consumer spending, home prices, 401(k) values, and employment levels are but a few of the economic vital signs that have plummeted during the upheaval of the past months. While these indicators help to describe today’s crisis, new research by Paola Sapienza (Kellogg) and Luigi Zingales (Booth) ...