Online MBA and MSBA Blog
In 2019, it is fairly uncontroversial to argue that one of a company’s most significant assets is its data. Whether this refers to data collected from market research, through internal reporting, directly from consumers or via any other means, the strength, reliability and security of data is vita...
No matter what industry you work in or what level you're at in your career, you could benefit from the guidance of a professional mentor. Mentorship is a calling for a certain kind of talented business veteran who understands that passing down the lessons they have learned through years of experie...
Conflict in the workplace can arise from many sources, from philosophically grounded differences of opinion regarding business strategy to simple clashes between strong personalities. Conflict itself is not always a bad thing: Important business decisions are often made as a result of competing id...
Over the past decade, social media use has become increasingly ubiquitous, with 72 percent of Americans indicating that they are active on at least one social media platform.1 In this connected environment—and particularly since the rise of smartphones has placed these platforms literally at our...
It has been two decades since the publication of the first paper cataloged in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) digital library to use the term "big data," and it feels as though the future of data analytics has been positioned since at least that time as the driving force behind the f...
No matter how far you may climb up the corporate ladder, meetings will continue to be a part of your professional life, and a keen sense of meeting etiquette will continue to be a crucial element of your interpersonal skill set. While some of the same rules that guide your behavior in meetings at...
In late May 2019, Amazon posted the first job openings for positions at its new Northern Virginia offices. The company expects to staff up to as many as 400 jobs by the end of 2019 in the region that will soon be home to its "HQ2," and its initial hires are expected to help them staff that new fac...
Business school accreditation is a valuable benchmark for determining the quality of your graduate business education. One of the key factors to consider when evaluating your business school options is the specific organization responsible for conferring accreditation on your program or institutio...
Getting an MBA is a significant investment on several levels. Aside from the obvious cost of MBA tuition, pursuing an advanced degree also requires serious investments of time and personal energy. These investments become even more challenging to make if you plan to continue working full time whil...
5 Top MBA Jobs
It should be no surprise that jobs for MBA graduates abound. In fact, 85 percent of U.S. companies indicate they plan to hire MBA graduates in the near term, as do 96 percent of Fortune Global 100 companies. Getting an MBA can be your pathway to a number of lucrative and rewarding roles, in a vari...