In a kitchen at the Rotterdam School of Management, a dozen students are huddled around a stove, learning to cook imaginative vegetarian meals. They use produce from local organic farms as a way to reduce their consumption of wasteful takeaways. This is the school’s Sustainability Hub, where Eva Rood, director of its “Positive Change Initiative”,
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Entrepreneur Brent Hoberman is to launch an alternative MBA programme offering free tuition and paid internships with some of Europe’s fastest-growing tech start-ups. The Founders Academy’s nine-month study and coaching programme will be led by practising entrepreneurs rather than academic staff and use an east London co-working office space as its campus. The aim is
Business school graduates need an additional qualification: thick hides. Critics say Master of Business Administration stands for “Mediocre But Arrogant”. Entrepreneurs can be particularly snarky. A Silicon Valley boss once claimed $250,000 should be deducted from the value of a start-up for every MBA employed. Business schools are trying to become hipper. They have poured
Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business has suffered a 6 per cent fall in applications for its MBA course in part because anti-immigrant rhetoric and US-China trade tensions are driving foreign students away from top US universities. The California university, which ranked number one in the Financial Times global MBA survey, is the latest to
London’s Imperial College Business School has become the latest academic institution to launch a student-run investment fund, where scholars pit their wits against professional asset managers.* Student-managed funds, which take academic theory from the lecture theatre and put it to work in the markets, are popular in the US, with initiatives at several business schools,
Across the country thousands of proud parents have spent the past few weeks dropping off their sons and daughters at university. Alongside anxious students about to embark on degrees will be thousands of mothers and fathers with concerns of their own, from whether their child will settle in, look after their health or turn up
Each year, millions of people study in more than 13,000 business schools. Every one of these students invests a significant amount of money, time and effort into their education. Many of them will find it a transformative experience. But worryingly there is mounting evidence that a substantial number of the students will get little out
Silicon Valley’s connections to the global tech industry made Stanford’s Graduate School of Business attractive to Kimberley Manning. Yet the software engineer, whose family had moved to Australia from Zimbabwe, halted her application. “I perceive the US to be increasingly hostile to immigrants and people from other cultures,” Ms Manning says. The US is the