MBA Specializations
Articles on specialist MBAs, from sports to environmentally friendly qualifications
GE: Experienced Commercial Leadership Program (ECLP)
GE is imagination at work. From jet engines to power generation, financial services to water processing, medical imaging to media content, GE is dedicated to turning imaginative ideas into leading products and services that help solve some of the world’s toughest problems. [more]
Scorecard Expert chat: Professor Ed Roberts, MIT Sloan
Ed Roberts came to MIT as a teenager and never left. To say his time here was productive is an understatement. In addition to the four degrees he’s earned and decades of teaching and research this energetic innovator founded and chairs the MIT entrepreneurship centre and co-founded the management... [more]
You can't teach that! Can you...?
Ross Geraghty talks to Prof Ed Roberts of MIT Sloan about Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Business Schools...and Babe Ruth. [more]
Distance learning MBAs on the rise as MBA candidates consider work-life balance
There are hundreds of MBA programs available for candidates to choose from but lately another one has been thrown into the mix. QS TopMBA looks at the rise of distance learning MBA programs. [more]
A Specialized MBA in Entrepreneurship: A Case Study
Entrepreneurship is one of the more divisive specializations at business school. After all, some famous entrepreneurs wouldn’t go within a country mile of an MBA degree. The debate as to whether such skills can be ‘taught’ rages on; however, it could be that detractors are missing the point. The top... [more]
Sports and Tourism Enthusiasts Turn to the MBA
So you want your MBA. You have a knack for business and want to enhance that skill to make the most of it. The thing is, you don’t just want to pursue a ‘regular’ MBA, but instead something different, something more specialized. And by specialized, you don’t mean consulting or marketing. You share an... [more]
Specialist MBAs
The trend towards specialist MBAs – programs designed for specific groups of professional people, and usually one year in length - appears to be thriving in Europe and the USA. In 2007, in the European Union alone, over 2500 candidates were taking specialist MBAs compared to around 200, ten years... [more]
Green MBAs – And we’re not talking about experience
Being green hasn’t meant tying yourself to a tree, chanting ‘meat is dead’ for a long time now. Throughout the past two decades, environmental issues have made their way from protests in front of banks to boardrooms in those same banks. Accordingly, MBA programs are changing to reflect this shift, by... [more]
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