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Same difference. Doing business in Japan.
Every country has its own cultural peculiarities and some see these as a minefield of potential disasters. However, arming yourself with the knowledge of what to expect when going overseas to work, is invaluable and can ease frustrations and make the whole business enterprise more profitable and... [more]
Regional focus - Asia Pacific
Could the booming economies of Asia be the place to study if you want to avoid the economic downturn in Europe and North America? [more]
John Davies profile
“If you can survive your MBA course, you can survive anything.” John Davies says he totally immersed himself in his course at Cass Business School in London and relished the opportunity the exercise his brain to its maximum potential. “By the end of the course you crave information as you have... [more]
Small business survival guide: surviving the downturn
‘Recession’ is one of those loaded words, a bit like ‘unemployment’, that politicians just don’t want to be the first to say. They leave it to economists – of course it is an economics term – to form part of the illusion that politics and economics are unlinked, unrelated and independent. The Bush... [more]
Summer internships: an important career stepping stone
As any MBA student or top business school will confirm, a summer internship is a critical step in the process of enhancing your credentials, and landing a full time job. With more students doing internships, employers expect to see them listed on the resumes of potential employees. And, in the... [more]
How to get and make the most of an internship
They let you apply what you’re learning, find out about yourself, give you access to whole new networks and can even get you a job. David Williams finds out what’s so great about internships from the student’s point of view. [more]
When it comes to the Crunch
Ross Geraghty on the credit crunch and news that, for MBAs and the top business schools, things may not be as bad as they seem [more]
Why the Bologna Accord will result in more MBAs in Europe
Watch out, the Bologna generation is about to come of age, and it is going to transform the market for European MBAs. [more]
Douglas Banning profile
Like many before him, Douglas Banning has used his MBA as a catalyst for a career change. With a very strong background in pharmacy, including a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the School of Pharmacy at the University of London, Douglas enrolled at the Warwick Business School to help develop his... [more]
Social entrepreneurship – MBAs working for the benefit of society
C.K. Prahalad begins his seminal work, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid with the simple, yet revolutionary proposition: “If we stop thinking of the poor as victims, but rather as resilient and creative entrepreneurs as well as value-conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will... [more]
Corporate leadership: lessons from professional service firms
Professional service firms are very different from other commercial enterprises. They typically lack the hard-nosed bottom line focus and hierarchical management structure of most companies. Indeed, managing professionals has been likened to herding cats, not a metaphor for strong top-down... [more]
The big picture and the bottom line
It is 35 years since Milton Friedman, the influential free market economist, said: “The social responsibility of business is to increase profits.” In the intervening period, especially around the millennium, corporates have begun to sing an adjoining tune, some more cautiously and others more... [more]
Beware! Don’t nuke the fridge!
It’s a perilous path to professional perfection. Tom Harrison, Head of Employer Relations at QS Careers and Global Workplace takes a sideways glance at the dos and don’ts of trying to impress your future employer. [more]
Relocation and the MBA graduate
Ross Geraghty looks at the world’s top destination for MBA study and postgraduate careers and finds out how easy, or hard, it is for MBA graduates to get to live and work there [more]
Student diary part 4: Remy Carera
Remy Carera is an MBA student at IE Business School in Spain. His monthly diary showcases his experience of the MBA course and what it entails. This month he talks about studying in the sun, summer internships and sailing around Croatia! [more]
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