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How to transform an academic

A bold scheme designed to fill the huge demand for business school teachers has targeted PhDs marooned in the job market and is wooing academics into the field of business education

Lessons from school of life

Peter Hahn wonders why more full-time faculty do not have relevant business experience

An ideas exchange

The theme of this year’s Euram conference is diversity in Europe

Recipe for step change

Peter Killing says identifying ‘must-win battles’ is key to strategy

Threat of faculty shortage

Business schools around the globe are facing a faculty shortage

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Business school news

NUS business school names dean

The National University of Singapore Business School has named a professor from the Stern School of Business as its next dean.

Thunderbird in Middle East link

Thunderbird School of Global Management has extended its footprint, announcing its first partnership with a school in the Middle East.

Fordham finds London home

Fordham University, based in New York, is the latest US University to set up home in London

More business school news

FT Business School on video

India: The base of the pyramid

isb

Top professors from the Indian School of Business explain how companies can enter new markets

Experiential marketing

Professor Bernd Schmitt of Columbia Business School elaborates on how to make customers relate to brands

Global financial volatility

Robert Engle

Prof Robert Engle of NYU Stern School of Business discusses the implications of Global Financial Volatility

Doing business in China

Five professors from the China Europe International Business School on how to grow business opportunities in China

Leading globally

Martha Maznevski

Martha Maznevski of IMD addresses the management challenges which accompany globalisation

Managing with confidence

Prof Don Sull of London Business School on how to manage successfully in an increasingly unpredictable and murky world

First person

Rituals and spread sheets

Enthusiastic Judge Business School student Nanna Lüneborg finds that she is already noticing a decent return on her MBA investment

IE Business School diary

I now have my MBA in my hands, the diploma for which I have worked so hard and the real journey is about to begin

Horizons beyond the classroom

Jacklyn Sing

The Sloan School of Management at the MIT lives up to its image of academic rigour in Jacklyn Sing’s MBA diary

More MBA Diaries

Read MBA diaries from Stanford Business School, Instituto Empresa, IMD and other schools

Prudent decision-making

William McKenzie

William McKenzie finds that his second year at LBS is not the time of ‘ease and freedom’ he had expected

MBA partnerships

Former MBAs who create successful companies together talk about their experiences

From the campus

Deans’ columns

Jean-Pierre Helfer

Business school deans write about an influential management figure. Jean-Pierre Helfer pays tribute to Jules Verne

Professors to watch

Faculty from Columbia, Chicago, Georgetown, HKUST, IMD and Wharton discuss their research

Schools to watch

summer school

Profiles of business schools around the world. The most recent include LBS, Columbia, AGSM, Johns Hopkins and HKUST

Audio: Deans’ roundtable

Extracts from the business school deans meeting at Chicago Graduate School in London

Meet the deans

David Schmittlein

Prof David Schmittlein of MIT Sloan and other deans from top business schools in exclusive interviews

Deans’ blog

’BizDeansTalk’ featuring Paul Danos, Santiago Iniguez and other top business school deans

MBA Gym

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MBA gym

Try out our MBA Gym in economics; designed to give you insights into what you might learn at business school

    Fourth column content

    Top MBA programmes 2008

    1. University of Pennsylvania: Wharton
    2. London Business School
    3. Columbia Business School
    4. Stanford University GSB
    5. Harvard Business School
    6. Insead
    7. MIT: Sloan
    8. IE Business School
    9. University of Chicago GSB
    10. University of Cambridge: Judge

    Top European Business Schools 2007

    1. HEC Paris
    2. London Business School
    3. Insead
    4. IMD
    5. IE Business School
    6. Iese Business School
    7. ESCP-EAP European School of Management
    8. RSM Erasmus University
    9. EM Lyon
    10. Esade Business School

    Top EMBA programmes 2007

    1. Kellogg/Hong Kong UST Business School
    2. Trium: HEC Paris/LSE/New York University: Stern
    3. University of Pennsylvania: Wharton
    4. Columbia/London Business School
    5. IE Business School
    6. London Business School
    7. University of Chicago GSB
      Washington University: Olin
    8. Columbia Business School
      Insead

    Top masters in management programmes 2007

    1. HEC Paris
    2. Cems
      London School of Economics and Political Science
    3. ESCP-EAP European School of Management
    4. Essec Business School
    5. EM Lyon
    6. Grenoble Graduate School of Business
    7. Audencia
    8. Stockholm School of Economics
    9. RSM Erasmus Univeristy

    Top executive education custom programmes 2007

    1. Duke Corporate Education
    2. IMD
    3. Harvard Business School
    4. Iese Business School
    5. Babson Executive Education
    6. University of Chicago GSB
    7. Columbia Business School
    8. Thunderbird School of Global Management
    9. MIT: Sloan
    10. Ashridge

    Top executive education open programmes 2007

    1. Harvard Business School
    2. Stanford University GSB
    3. University of Virginia: Darden
    4. University of Chicago GSB
    5. IMD
    6. Center for Creative Leadership
    7. IE Business School
    8. Iese Business School
      Northwestern University: Kellogg
    9. Babson Executive Education