Blog Archive In Other News

Blog Archive In Other News … The business school world is constantly buzzing with change and innovation. Each week, in addition to our regular news posts, we briefly touch on a few notable stories from this dynamic field in one roundup. Here is what caught our eye this week: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania will offer a new online specialization, titled “Business Analytics,” the school announced recently. The specialization, which will begin its first course on September 15, is part of the Business Foundation series that is currently available to students through the Coursera online learning platform. The school will offer four courses in the Business Analytics specialization: “People Analytics,” “Accounting Analytics,” “Customer Analytics,” and “Operations Analytics.” Harvard Business School (HBS) is well known for its extensive and largely successful alumni pool, but one field filled with HBS grads could be a surprise: fashion. Such fashion entrepreneurs as Gilt cofounder Alexandra Wilkis Wilson and Rent the Runway bosses Jennifer Fleiss and Jennifer Hyman graduated from HBS, Boston.com reports. “Having access to genius [HBS] professors who had run retail businesses or large logistics-intensive operations was invaluable,” Fleiss commented in the article. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is a polarizing figure, but his alma mater is undoubtedly prestigiousâ€"the real estate mogul graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics. “I’m going to be the king of New York real estate,” he announced to one of his classes in true Trump style, the Boston Globe reports. Trump, whose former classmates describe him as “different” and “a little into himself,” would flip houses in Philadelphia throughout his time at Wharton. MBA hopefuls tend to use persistent stereotypes of business schools to help them decide where to apply. “If I want to work in marketing, I’ll go to Kellogg,” one might think. If that is the case, those hoping to work at Facebook should pay attention: Business Insider took a closer look at the company’s staff and compiled its findings into a list of the 20 most widely represented schools. Perhaps surprisingly, only two were business schools: the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business at number 16 and the Stanford Graduate School of Business at number 18. Share ThisTweet Berkeley-Haas Harvard University (Harvard Business School) News Stanford University (Stanford Graduate School of Business) University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) Blog Archive In Other News … The business school world is constantly buzzing with change and innovation. Each week, in addition to our regular news posts, we briefly touch on a few notable stories from this dynamic field in one roundup. Here is what caught our eye this week: Harvard Business School (HBS) recently launched HBX Liveâ€"a digital platform intended to duplicate the HBS classroom experience for participants around the world. The school has offered alumni and executive education students, among others, a chance to take part in the program’s first installments. Each session’s approximately 60 participants share the virtual classroom with an HBS professor. Within the past year, the school has announced the launch of two other online learning experiences: business fundamentals program HBX CORe, intended for college students and newly hired professionals, and learning program series Courses, targeting senior managers. University of Chicago Booth School of Business Dean Sunil Kumar will serve a second term in his current position, the school announced recently. Kumar stepped in as the dean in 2011 and will lead Chicago Booth for at least five more years after beginning his second term in 2016. “[Kumar] has demonstrated a commitment to the success of Booth’s faculty individually and as a whole, and to the success of Booth students and alumni in Chicago and around the globe,” Chicago Booth’s President Robert J. Zimmer and Provost Eric D. Isaacs stated in the announcement. Looking for some inspiration and/or motivation as the school year begins? A Harvard Business School MBA student offers her take on the five most useful business books in a recent Business Insider articleâ€"among them, the New York Times Best Sellers Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen, and The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg. Intense short-term courses called “business boot camps” are gaining popularity among those interested in learning marketable professional skills without enrolling in business school. Such start-ups as General Assembly, Udacity, and The Flatiron School offer courses ranging in length from weeks to months, CNBC reports, and concentrate on various technology-related skills such as codingâ€"which is in hot demand by a wide range of companies. “[These boot camps are] really about learning a brand new skill and learning it well enough to get a brand new job,” General Assembly founder and Wharton graduate Jake Schwartz commented to CNBC. Consequently, these boot camps provide an interesting alternative career path to some aspiring professionals. Share ThisTweet News