MBAs Guide

MBA graduates face the toughest job market for years

But the best prepared and most adaptable are still landing work

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A new deal in India for Lancaster University

Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Westward ho is where the land was supposed to be bright, but Lancaster University sees the light shining from the East. Earlier this year, the university launched a new campus in India in partnership with a local provider of private education, the GD Goenka Group. The arrangement is part of a 21st-century strategy of overseas expansion intended to spread the Lancaster brand, diversify sources of income and broaden the horizons of faculty.

The MBA graduates taking the moral high ground

Tuesday, 19 January 2010

A new breed of MBA graduate wants to do good while earning their crust

Design thinking can give a business the edge over its rivals

Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Business schools need to take design seriously. Design potentially is a very valuable element in the curriculum, but in the wake of the financial crisis, amid the soul-searching by business schools about whether the MBA curriculum needs revising, design is being overlooked. By design, I mean much more than an outcome, an aesthetically pleasing useful object, such as the iPhone or the Concorde. I mean the process of innovation through the collaboration of specialists from a wide range of disciplines, manufacturers and consumers. Practised this way, good design helps to create better organisations, superior products and services, and to save money.