BSchools.org Blog - Resources for Business School Students
The BSchools.org blog helps online MBA students choose the right business school and make the most out of life beyond graduation. Readers can learn about what to expect when pursuing an online business degree, including information about the application process, exceptional professors leading programs, and MBA alternatives. Additionally, there are detailed guides to scholarships, internship opportunities (paid and unpaid), conferences, careers, and prospective salaries, as well as features about the ever-changing business landscape.
Check back regularly for interviews with degree program administrators and tips for successful applications, among other resources.
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Crypto: Can Readers Trust Reporting About the Industry?
April 13, 2023Founded in 2018, The Block is a 160-employee New York-based media outlet with about $20 million in annual revenue that claims it covers news about the crypto industry independently. But it turns out that The Block had secretly received $43 million from one of the firms it has covered since 2019.
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Boards of Directors: Surprising New Study Reveals Their Real Role
March 28, 2023Along with most MBA students, most of us—including elected officials, regulators, academic experts, the press, and the public—all believe that a firm’s board of directors functions as society’s principal entity charged with holding chief executives accountable. However, surprising new research reveals that board members do not perceive this to be their role.
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Student Loans for MBAs: Bright Spots Amid Controversy
February 17, 2023It's challenging to find an educational issue that's more controversial in 2023 than the student loan debate. At the moment, this topic appears all over both social media and legacy news outlets. What’s driving the coverage is the Biden Administration’s announcement in late August of student loan forgiveness for as many as 43 million borrowers.
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MBA Alternatives: Most Popular Business Books
February 16, 2023For those interested in business administration but who do not want to enroll in a graduate or undergraduate business program, there are several alternatives. One is reading books written by some of the world's most successful businessmen and women.
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The Best Mobile Apps for MBA Students
February 1, 2023A typical MBA student must manage a demanding workload that includes class assignments, group projects, internships, job interviews, student club meetings, and networking events. Mobile apps can play a significant role in helping students manage this demanding workload.
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Wharton Launches First Online MBA Among Top 5 Business Schools
December 1, 2022The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School just introduced the first online MBA option offered by any business school typically ranked among the top five by U.S. News and World Report.
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Guide to the Top Business Podcasts (2022-2023)
November 10, 2022These business podcasts are free, available anywhere, and in many cases, an effective supplement to one’s MBA journey. Inside, you will find the personal insights of startup unicorns, industry heavyweights, and premier researchers.
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5 Reasons to Pursue an MBA Degree
November 1, 2022According to new research, the reasons driving the overwhelming majority of business school applicants to pursue MBA degrees have little to do with higher salaries. This article explores that misconception and examines the actual reasons why students seek MBA degrees.
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Can Free Software Alone Get You Through an MBA Program?
October 28, 2022Adobe’s decision to offer some premium software for free demonstrates how the trend appears to be gaining traction so rapidly that graduating from a top MBA program might no longer require much in the way of paid software—or any paid software at all.
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Big Surprises in the Latest Remote Work Research
October 13, 2022The latest research on remote work movements like work-from-home (WFH) and work-from-anywhere (WFA) has upended several generally accepted assumptions about these new trends. Below we review some of the more recent findings that are especially significant for the pre-MBA and MBA students in our audience here at BSchools.
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The Great Resistance: Return-to-Office Enforcement Collapses
October 6, 2022Suddenly, businesses find themselves embroiled in a new challenge known as the Great Resistance. At most companies, return-to-office initiatives have disintegrated into colossal failures because many employees are declining to come back to their old workplaces. Why is this?
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What’s a Flipped MBA Classroom?
September 16, 2022Recently here at BSchools we pointed out that online MBA programs carry extraordinarily large startup costs, in part because online curricula require sizable investments in production facilities and equipment. These programs also carry high ongoing upgrade costs, especially at highly-ranked business schools that exploit competitive advantages from new technology. However, at one top program, a different and surprising objective behind these investments has also emerged.
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Can a Lean Canvas Replace a Traditional Business Plan?
September 14, 2022Within the past 15 years, new kinds of business plan possibilities have captured the imagination of entrepreneurs. Some of these planning approaches—which embody radical departures from the process of drafting traditional business plans—appear to be gaining momentum.
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How Managers with MBAs Impact Workers’ Pay & Company Performance
August 29, 2022The surprising study draws two remarkable conclusions. First, it found that managers who earned business degrees at both the master’s and undergraduate levels actually cut their employees' wages over time. Second, the research also found that despite earning substantially greater salaries, business school-trained managers were not more productive than their counterparts who lack such degrees.
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What is Work-From-Anywhere (WFA)? A Shift for Employers & Employees
August 18, 2022Work-from-home (WFH) is so 2020. The latest workplace trend no longer embodies the remote work-from-home model or even the hybrid model where post-Covid employees spend one or two days a week back in their old offices. The cutting-edge trend is actually WFA, which stands for work-from-anywhere.