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New Blog Format Relaunched!
By Maren[FIND MBA] in FIND MBA Blog on Nov 5, 2008
You see! Bloggers keep their promises (sometimes).
We have relaunched the new FIND MBA Blog, where we will be publishing interviews and other original content of interest to current and prospective MBA students.
Basically, we wanted to ADD to the world of information about MBA programs - not just talk about what our favorite bloggers are ranting on about (though, we may still do a bit of that, too).
We've started the new blog with a series of interviews about German MBA programs and corporate sustainability MBA programs. We will be focusing on other topics and issues in the weeks and months to come.
We hope you find the new blog interesting and useful. If you have any ideas for topics or stories you would like us to cover, please let us know.
Oh, and this will probably be the last post on this blog. So, head over on to the new URL and check it out! http://blog.find-mba.com/
Take care,
Maren
Top 5 MBA Blogs of the Week - Bye for Now
By Maren[FIND MBA] in FIND MBA Blog on May 29, 2008
Dear Readers - Many thanks for reading the Top 5 blog over the last several months! We hope you've enjoyed our weekly round-up of our favorite MBA blog posts. We've decided to discontinue the weekly blog for now. We expect to be back in action in the autumn with a new, improved format. Stay tuned, and enjoy the summer!
Take care,
Maren
Top 5 MBA Blogs of the Week - May 18, 2008
By Maren[FIND MBA] in FIND MBA Blog on May 18, 2008
Crunch! Yep, you heard it. The Credit Crunch. There are lots of other crunches out there, but right now this one is in vogue. Maybe you've felt it yourself. Maybe you prefer to ignore it completely. If so, we've got the blog roundup for you. 5 items, 5 gems. You know the drill.
01. Sex, the City, Trolls, Butter. Put them together and you have this from Miss Curly Bee - not actually at b-school yet, but she will be!
02. Here's HairTwirler, from Georgetown's McDonough School of Business with a picture of Spring in Washington DC. Apparently it has something to do with Russell Crowe (a favorite on this blog roundup) and getting drunk.
03. Gladiators - Ready! Contestants - Ready! Yale's very own MBA Gladiator gives us a whirlwind tour around New Haven, New York, and yes, Cleveland!
04. I know there are a lot of you out there who love nothing more than to strip down to your underwear, cover your hands in glue and jelly-babies, and duke it out like Jean-Claude Van Damme and Charlie Sheen in Kickboxer. Well, here's one for you! It's all about how HKUST is better than INSEAD. Or maybe its the other way around.
05. For those of you about to graduate, here's an instructional video on what not to do.
Top 5 MBA Blogs of the Week - May 11, 2008
By Maren[FIND MBA] in FIND MBA Blog on May 11, 2008
These week in the MBA blogs, it's party time at Wharton, Twitter goes country, a Chicago GSB student mulls over the pros and cons of pursuing an MBA, and we find out which Democratic presidential candidate Yoda would choose. Enjoy!01. If you read La Laudiaria's blog on life at Wharton, you could easily get the impression its all party, party, party. Nice to see her latest piece continues that grand tradition.
02. What does Hank Williams, legendary country singer and pioneer of the honky tonk style, have to do with twitter? According to this Leveraging Ideas post on "Interesting Memes Plucked from the Blogosphere," a lot.
03. When MBA is a four-letter word. Here's MBA Mom, from the Chicago Graduate School of Business, on the pros and cons of doing an MBA.
04. Regardless of one's political persuasion, it's hard not to enjoy this novel interpretation of the Democratic race for the White House which is currently holding the US, the world, and probably even the tiny forest moon of Endor in its thrall.
05. But this is even better...
Top 5 MBA Blogs of the Week - May 04, 2008
By Maren[FIND MBA] in FIND MBA Blog on May 5, 2008
That's right, it's time for our look at the crazy world of MBA blogs. This week it's cats, cakes, mayors, newts, bacon, bananas, a Lama, Rings of Power, boy wizards, and a load of balls.
01. On May 1, the good burghers of ye Olde London Towne voted to see who would be their next mayor. Would it be the incumbent, champagne-socialist and reowned lizard-lover "Red" Ken Livingston, or would it be blond bombshell Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, author of Seventy-Two Virgins? Well, the results are in.
02. Ever wondered what 50,000 corporate-sponsored cupcakes arranged together would look like? Well, thanks to Tedward, an MBA student at the University of Maryland R. H. Smith School of Business, you don't have to wonder any more.
03. Unconventional Applicant, from the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management, continues his fascinating discussion of his experiences living in China.
04. Anyone for Quidditch? Mike Murphy reflects on his first year as an MBA student at Hogwarts - sorry, Virginia's Darden.
05. So it looks like this year's UEFA Champions League final is going to be a contest between the two richest clubs in the world, Chelsea and Manchester United. Of course, only one British club has won the title 5 times, and that's this lot.
** Each week, FIND MBA publishes a list of our favorite MBA-related blog posts from around the world. Get the Top 5 delivered straight to your RSS reader every week by subscribing to the RSS feed below! **
Top 5 MBA Blogs of the Week - April 28, 2008
By Maren[FIND MBA] in FIND MBA Blog on Apr 28, 2008
This week's Top 5 is a particularly eclectic one. Too eclectic to even begin to group under some kind of theme. In other words, it's all about diversity, multiplicity, random tales from the postmodern Global Village in which we all live.01. Mandy at Virginia's Darden discusses the ethics of Chinese table tennis.
02. At St. Gallen, Stuart Little witnessed an event that appears to have gotten many students and their professors very excited, even if it would surely make Jack White of the White Stripes want to cry. But hey, it's not like there's such a thing as a counterculture anymore anyway, so what does it matter?
03. Here's Square Method, an MBA student at Darden, with an innovative take on the connections between B-schools and the US Founding Fathers.
04. Self-styled entrepreneur (maybe even flaneur), Gabriel, describes what happened when his two favorite things collided, a battle destined to go down in history as "Doggie vs. MacBook."
05. And finally, Ben Bernanke's blues.
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Top 5 MBA Blogs of the Week - April 23, 2008
By Maren[FIND MBA] in FIND MBA Blog on Apr 23, 2008
Hello and welcome back, MBAers and prospective MBAers of the world! What's that? What have we got for you this week? Why, only the very best, of course. All you have to do is read, click, and see your enemies flee before you!
01. Here's Unconventional Applicant, from the University of Minnesota Carlson, with his very special, potentially rather controversial account of his two years living in China. Part One & Part Two.
02. A little while ago we featured Texas A&M University MBA student Howdy's first video podcast. This week he turns his attention to Pope Benedict XVI's visit to America and ask "What's the Pope got to do with my MBA?"
03. Click here to see MBA Gladiator's account of Arnold Schwarzenegger's visit to Yale University last week to give a lecture on climate change.
04. Here's the very latest news from the world of finance.
05. And finally, learn English the fun way....
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Top 5 MBA Blogs of the Week - April 13, 2008
By Maren[FIND MBA] in FIND MBA Blog on Apr 13, 2008
"The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows." So how are you gonna roll? Are you going to let life tell you what to do, or are you going move forward? Are you, in short, going to play close attention to this week's survey of the best (and some of the rest) of the MBA blogosphere?
01. "Hoboken - you're fired!" With the end of his time at Yale School of Management in sight, the MBA Gladiator comes over all Donald Trump. Pay attention, too, to the quote from Rocky. Further proof, if proof were needed, of the genius of Sylvester Stallone. Roll on Rambo 2008!
02. Benny, an MBA student at Tuck School of Business isn't as observant as he thought he was. Nor were we, but can you do any better?
03. MaybeMBA at Chicago GSB has some advice for the ladies: if in doubt, DON'T MARRY AN MBA MAN! Especially when you can hire someone to fulfill all your non-MBA needs instead.
04. As anyone who's watched Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Twin Peaks, and countless other series from the very beginning can testify, pilot episodes are invariably strange beasts, often bearing only a distant relationship to the real thing. Howdy, at Texas A&M University, has put together an interesting pilot for what may turn out to be a regular thing. You can check out the first episode here.
05. And finally, more evidence that the end of the world will shortly be upon on us.
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Top 5 MBA Blogs of the Week - April 6, 2008
By Maren[FIND MBA] in FIND MBA Blog on Apr 7, 2008
Welcome to this week's super Sunday roundup! Oh, sorry, it's been delayed. Your bags have been sent to Hungary, not Hawaii. And it looks like you'll be spending the next week in the departure lounge. Plenty of time to enjoy the following!01. Some people say that time = money. I bet those people never take time out to try a decent bit of cake whenever the need arises.
02. Sprechen Sie "B.S."? The London Business School alumni Divine Miss N does, even if it does leave a rather nasty aftertaste.
03. The 1980's saw an enormous number of campaigns urging us to save this and that. First, there was Save the Whales. Then came Save the Earth. In 1986 there was even something called Save Ferris. Now it's free coffee-shop Wi-Fi access that needs our help - at least that's what Perpetual Motion at Wharton believes.
04. As Mandy Lozano, aka 'It's not just about having good hair' will tell you, contrary to the rumors put about by a certain Mr. Tennessee Williams, it is actually very rare to find a cat on a hot tin roof. If, however, you go down to the Darden School of Business, you may find much stranger things.
05. Once upon a time the British ruled one third of the globe, and British engineering was renowned the world over. Not anymore. In fact, maybe we should consider Heathrow Airport's brand new, multi-billion dollar Terminal 5 the final nail in the coffin.
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