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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Alumni contacts can make all the difference when it comes to looking for a job

Thursday, 8 April 2010

What exactly are you buying when you study at a "better class" of university? The answer is you are purchasing better teaching and facilities – and better peers. "The people one bumps into as a student can come in very useful in later life, and business schools know this," says Adrian Furnham, Professor of Psychology at UCL, an expert on the workplace.

Cross the Channel – for sun and small classes

Thursday, 8 April 2010

If you want a business programme reflecting an international patchwork of backgrounds, head to the Continent

From Leicester with love: Distance learning is fast becoming a popular way to achieve an MBA

Thursday, 8 April 2010

Distance learning has opened up management courses to a range of students who don't fit the usual profile, but none so surprising as the nun from a closed monastery in Cyprus who enrolled with the University of Leicester.

Economic downturn spawns new dynamism

Thursday, 8 April 2010

An emphasis on nurturing responsible leadership has emerged from the financial crisis.

French business schools are determined to usurp their dominant English-speaking rivals

Thursday, 8 April 2010

Arnaud Langlois-Meurinne may look amused, but his goal is deadly serious. "We aim to be among the top 25 business schools in Europe by 2012," says the dean of the Rouen Business School. Climbing up the rankings is just one part of a strategic plan, echoed by other French business schools, to put itself on an international map still largely dominated by Anglo-Saxon institutions. Rouen is an hour north of Paris by train, and is famous for its medieval centre and cathedral. The city is an old port and commercial centre but has a provincial feel. So in 2007 the school, which was founded in 1871, began to reinvent itself through an amicable divorce from the Rouen Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It now has legal autonomy as a non-profit organisation and last year changed its name from Groupe ESC Rouen. "We needed a more international name," says Langlois-Meurinne with a smile.

A sustainable profit: How to make an MBA green

Thursday, 8 April 2010

Angela Neustatter speaks to the author Giselle Weybrecht

Adapt to a changing planet: Amba's conference will address a world in transition

Thursday, 8 April 2010

The world is changing so fast these days that business schools are struggling to steer a course in the shifting seas. Next month, deans and directors from around the world will come together in Berlin to discuss the huge upheavals they now face, and what sort of business education will be needed to address them.

Charge of the green brigade: The students who are planning to be in the vanguard of the fight against climate change

Thursday, 8 April 2010

Behind the sleek glass façade of the University of East Anglia's new central London study centre, the chatter is upbeat, despite the gloomy subject. Can business commit to fighting climate change and adjust to a low-carbon economy? The answer from the students on UEA's part-time MBA in strategic carbon management is an emphatic yes.

Interview: 'I think the spirit of entrepreneurism is in my blood'

Thursday, 8 April 2010

It has been more than 20 years since Isabelle Thomas, 45, got her Executive MBA from ESCP Europe and she's still using the skills she learnt. Born in France and now living in America, she has developed recipe applications for iPhones that are second only to Jamie Oliver's in the download charts.