Sentences with phrase «get to the business school»

As law schools explore more team learning (though they've a long way to go to get to the Business School small group culture), the possibility of collaborative tools becomes more important.

Not exact matches

Funded by alumni from the McCombs School of Business, where it is housed, Texas Venture Labs will selectively take on projects and provide (student) labor to help the firms get off the ground.

«A business plan is important because it communicates to everyone involved in the organization what the goals are, and how management plans to get there,» says Drew Starbird, a professor of operations management and information systems at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Bbusiness plan is important because it communicates to everyone involved in the organization what the goals are, and how management plans to get there,» says Drew Starbird, a professor of operations management and information systems at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of BusinessBusiness.

While O'Leary's decision also applies to entrepreneurs who are still in school, he stressed the importance of finishing an education to get the skills and contacts that a budding business owner might need later on.

It was hard to get those like - minded peers,» says Gillis, who recently started an undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia's Sauder of School of Business.

«You just don't know what's going to happen when you get out there and do something like this,» said Paul Argenti, professor of corporate communications at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

When I first got out of Columbia Business School, I wanted to go to work for Graham immediately for nothing.

The pair's solutions to the alleged problems of CEO - speak are greater government control of markets, more bureaucracy in the private and public sectors, an end to CEOs» duty of care to shareholders and — get this — more snore - inducing courses on critical textual analysis in business schools so students can know exactly how many times a CEO says «our company» versus «the company.»

They're about as close to commodities as consumer devices get,» Hal Friedlander, co-founder of the Technology for Education Consortium and former CIO for New York City schools, told Business Insider.

In reality, the average person would be far better off getting a degree than leaving school the second a half - decent business idea comes to mind.

For Kersi Antia, marketing professor at Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario, that's got to change — the sooner, the better.

The professor at Arizona State University's business school and author of The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse, asks her clients, «What are the things you would never do at this company to get a client, to keep a client, to make sure you met your numbers for the quarter?»

Proud to be in business Most of the current batch of ceos either went to business school or intended to (but got sidetracked by a business opportunity).

So, in between classes, I set up meetings and appointments with students and professors at the business school to share my idea and get their input.

Other times, parents want to equalize gifts they have already made, he said — such as paying for one child's education through medical school when another only pursued a bachelor's degree, or funds offered to buy a house, get married or start a business.

Queen's School of Business is so far the only one to get into hedge funds with the Queen's University Alternative Assets Fund.

Kenna's ability to get local businesses to buy ad space in his high school's literary magazine and his ability to get some of Hollywood's hottest celebrities to climb the tallest peak in Africa come from the same part of Kenna's personality: his ability to talk to and connect with almost anybody.

And what I've seen at Carnegie Mellon and the Tepper School of Business is that we have students that come back to get their MBAs knowing that they want to start a company.»

Alan Middleton, a professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business, points out that the big banks now train tellers to upsell whenever they've got a customer standing at the wicket or asking a question on the phone.

We asked the admissions committees at some of Canada's top graduate business schools to share what it really takes for an application to get approved.

It's more than often the direction you're pointed if you have an idea and talk to any old - school business person, corporate lifer or institutional banker — at least when it comes to getting your startup idea off the ground.

What's worse than getting rejected from all five business schools you applied to?

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Douglas Ready, a senior lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management and the founder and president of leadership development firm ICEDR, explains in Harvard Business Review how to get your employees energized in such situations.

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For international students, getting an MBA from a Chinese business school provides unique opportunities — entry into a 1.3 billion - person economy, for example — and poses considerable challenges — such as trying to say «forecasting the aggregate directly» in Mandarin.

But it looks like things are slowly getting back to normal, with Harvard and London Business School earning top spots in Poets & Quants» first MBA rankings.

(poetsandquants.com)-- Things are slowly getting back to normal at the world's top business schools.

«When I go to business school, I want to get that penniless, wallet - draining, soul - emptying sense of debt.»

«I knew I wanted to go to business school when I got more excited about Fast Company and Harvard Business Review showing up in my mailbox than People mbusiness school when I got more excited about Fast Company and Harvard Business Review showing up in my mailbox than People mBusiness Review showing up in my mailbox than People magazine.

«The better able you are to get inside the head of your opponent,» Adam D. Galinsky, professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, wrote in the Harvard Business School's Negotiation newsletter, «the better your negotiated outcomes are likely to be.»

Gen Z is the first generation to grow up in an economy where the idea of becoming a social media influencer makes just as much sense as going to school and getting a business degree.

Eric Abrahamson, a professor of management at Columbia Business School and author of The Perfect Mess, adds that order comes with a cost: «If you stop to tidy up every time something becomes disordered you'll continually interrupt yourself and never get any work done,» he says.

«Increasing access to capital for small businesses, and getting rid of Dodd - Frank — it's not a one - to - one,» adds Mills, now a senior fellow at Harvard Business School and the lead author of a comprehensive 2014 working paper on the state of small - business Business School and the lead author of a comprehensive 2014 working paper on the state of small - business business lending.

Meanwhile, the principal of Alvin's school suggested that the father and son get professional help, and referred them to John Cayton, a counselor with the Mental Research Institute of Palo Alto, a family - therapy clinic that does a brisk business in absentee - parent cases.

If you are an entrepreneur launching a business and want to get ahead of your competitors, have you and your team ever considered volunteering to help out at local schools?

Historically, getting a higher education (i.e., university, graduate school, etc.) could actually be an impediment to starting a business.

You're probably going to get asked about why you want to go to the particular business school you've set your sights on.

«As soon as you get overly tied to the lessons you were taught in business school or elsewhere, I think you're going to start doing it the way it's been done in the past.

«If the first time we get to know you is your application, you're robbing yourself of an opportunity,» says JD Clarke, executive director of masters programs recruitment and admissions at Ivey Business School.

(poetsandquants.com)-- Harvard Business School applicants are getting some quirky counsel on how to avoid the kind of faux pas that would destroy their chances of ever gaining admittance to the West Point of Capitalism.

My last year at business school I got a job at Intrawest Resorts, and I flew out to Los Angeles as soon as I graduated.

Regardless of your ultimate ability to garner funding through school grants, crowdsourcing or other alternatives, you will likely have to get your business rolling with minimal capital until you can demonstrate viable potential or build enough credit standing to warrant large - scale borrowing.

Dan Bricklin, 25, was getting ready to apply to business schools in Massachusetts, and Bob Frankston, 27, was working as a computer programmer near Boston.

-- Harvard Business School — «The average time it took an unemployed person to find a job — full time, part time or otherwise — in December (2008) was 19.7 weeks» — Department of Labor — «Elite professionals feel least adept at getting meaningful introductions to key contacts (and) more adept at maintaining ongoing contact with key network members.»

About 78 % of the responding admissions staffers said that getting into business school will become increasingly competitive due to their expectations of greater number of applicants.

Money may be an evil, he said during a recent visit to Stanford Graduate School of Business, but he urged students to «get the money, and don't lose your moral compass when you do.»

Alberta's oilsands operations are getting increasingly more efficient in producing energy, though they still lag behind conventional oil, according to a new study published by researchers at the Haskayne School of Business and China University of Petroleum (Beijing).

SO... now that you know how many plans we get from portolio companies, laywers, recruiters and entrepreneurs in general (not to mention business school classmates, other VCs, professors, etc.)... still think your plan randomly submitted has a good shot of getting you a meeting?