Education


The Blue Man Group Opens a School

The founders of the Blue Man Group designed the pre-K and elementary school as an alternative to the New York school scene -- and parents are lining up.  Read story

The Very-Long-Distance Recruit

It's tough to find good talent in the Bay Area's chaotic labor market. Job seekers often won't consider joining a company unless it either promises to off...  Read story

Are Business Schools Teaching Business?

More students want to be entrepreneurs, but their professors are turning them into bureaucrats.  Read story

Harvard Discovers Entrepreneurship

The nation's leading business schools have traditionally directed most of their resources and attention to training managers for Fortune 500-type companie...  Read story

High-tech Competition Spurs New M.b.a. Degree

The skills required to run a high-technology company often bear little resemblance to those that were needed to launch it. But learning to manage such ke...  Read story

A Worthy Program

Our working, evening M.B.A. program students found Albert Shapero's article "Are Business Schools Teaching Business?" (Speaking Out, January) amusing. Pro...  Read story

Rise of the Entrepreneurial Class

Five years ago, Jim Poss, a 28-year-old environmental studies grad from Duke University, was determined to make a living in renewable energy -- he had the...  Read story

Pay Now, Learn Later

You can protect yourself against college tuition hikes. But the scheme backfires if your kid goes to the state university By now you probably kno...  Read story

Business Education

Business education is a term that encompasses a number of methods used to teach students the fundamentals of business practices. These methods range from ...  Read story

Collegiate Entrepreneurial Organizations

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It Takes A Tender Man To Make A Tough B-school

With around 650 American colleges and universities currently offering graduate business degrees (up from 389 in 1974), some people wonder whether the coun...  Read story

Linda Steckley

Age: 45 Hometown: West Chester, Pa. Undergraduate Degree: Dickinson College Business School: School of Business Administration, Universi...  Read story

Breaking Away

This year's crop of M.B.A.s has more in mind than investment banking and high-paying consulting jobs  Read story

Making The Grade

Entrepreneur targets his business niche during a business school research project.  Read story

MBAs For Hire

Trend towards M.B.A. students seeking small growing businesses to work for.  Read story

Educating the Market

Start-up business attempts to apply private-sector management to the public-school system.  Read story

Too Cool For School?

After years of loathing M.B.A. programs, here's why today's savvy entrepreneurs are now seeking these degrees.  Read story

Young M.B.A. Seeks Attractive Company

There is a new tool that M.B.A.s can use to find a company they can own: a search fund.  Read story

Hollywood Lures High School Animators with Sweet Deals

An innovative training program in a California high school is churning out graduates who command high salaries.  Read story

CEO's Notebook

Various CEOs share thoughts, concerns and advice on such subjects as training and international banking.  Read story

What They Do (and Don't) Teach You in Business School

An M.B.A. will help you run an established business, but it can't provide the real-world experience needed to run a start-up. A look at when an M.B.A. comes ...  Read story

Campus Inc.

An introduction to the Inc. cover story on the hottest entrepreneurial programs offered by universities. Includes brief descriptions of more unique ...  Read story

Upstarts: New-Biz Watch

For-profit schools: a look at Advantage Schools; Michigan's governor's take on school privatization; and companies that failed in this market.  Read story

Entrepreneurship Group Forms Panel on University Education

Jan. 26, 2006 - In an effort to create a common approach to entrepreneurial education across all universities, a leading organization for...  Read story

Missouri Set to Unveil New Entrepreneurship Courses

Jan. 13, 2005 --To help keep pace with the proliferation of offerings at other colleges and universities across the nation, the University...  Read story

Reversing Trend, International Applications Increase at U.S. Grad Schools

The shift is a welcomed development for technology companies and other firms seeking qualified workers.  Read story

MBA Students Stress Social Role

More business students feel a company's responsibilities go beyond the boardroom.  Read story

Business School Applications Surge

Nearly a quarter million applicants took an MBA admissions test this year, school officials say.  Read story

Young Entrepreneurs Compete for Seed Money

March 14, 2007 -- College and high school students are invited to compete for up to $7,500 in start-up capital in an annual business-plan...  Read story

Study: Students Hail Minority Business Profs

April 3, 2007 -- Minority business professors have a positive impact the career decisions of both undergraduate and graduate students at ...  Read story

U.S.-India Business School Exchange

The Simmons School of Management in Boston has partnered with the Indian Institute of Management, a top business school in Calcutta, to create an exchange...  Read story

MBAs Getting More Job Offers

The number of business-school students receiving offers of employment before they graduate has nearly doubled since 2003, a recent survey found. In...  Read story

Business School Applications Rising

Applications for graduate business programs around the world are rising fast, with higher rates among women and minorities, a new survey shows. Of ...  Read story

The Matchmaker

An anatomy of start-up Career Central, a matchmaker for companies and business school graduates. Includes CEO Jeffrey Hyman's business plan, financial strate...  Read story

The ABCs of Profit

The CEO of Nobel Learning Communities Inc., an operator of for-profit and charter schools, is convinced that he knows how to make money with schools -- witho...  Read story

How I Did It: Andrew Clark, Bridgepoint Education

Industry Leader: Education Three-Year Growth: 6,794.1% The appeal of I...  Read story

The Reformer

Michael Connelly | Mosaica Education | New York City It's Friday afternoon in Mr. Schwartz's third-grade class at Our World Neighborhood Cha...  Read story

Go Back to College to Get Help for Your Business

Is there a college, junior college, or university near you? If there is, and you're not making use of it, you may be neglecting a powerful business resour...  Read story

What Entrepreneurs Can't Learn at Business School

Spreadsheets are handy tools -- but nothing can replace that fire in the belly.  Read story