Catch up on some business school news and tips with a few of this week’s top stories:

Bouncing Back From the Great Recession (Poets & Quants)

Poets & Quants examines data through 2011 to see which business schools have been able to recover the losses from the Great Recession and which schools have actually gained ground.

Harvard Business School Splits $50K Between 10 Student Startups Dedicated to Going Lean (BostInno)

Harvard Business School’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship recently announced the 10 student groups who will receive $5,000 each to fund their startup ventures.

What Harvard, Haas and Other Top Business Schools Want to Learn About You (Forbes)

Former Executive Director of Admissions for the full-time program at Berkeley-Haas shares what business school admissions committees are really looking for in their applicants.

Why MBA? How an MBA Can Boost your Employability (The Telegraph)

The Telegraph discusses how MBA graduates”particularly those from top-tier schools”are still in demand from leading employers despite the tight job market.

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Catch up on some business school news and tips with a few of this week’s top stories:

MBA Rankings: Top Schools for E-Business (Bloomerberg Businessweek)

Bloomberg Businessweek asked current business school students to rank their program’s coverage of  Internet commerce.

MBA Pay Growth: U.S. Business Schools Lag Behind (Business Week)

Business Week shares some recent research, which reveals that MBA pay growth at business schools in the U.S. has lagged significantly behind increases in Europe and Asia.

Relax! You’ll Be More Productive! (The New York Times)

Struggling to concentrate on your studies? The NY Times reports on growing research that shows how naps, longer sleep hours, time away from the office, and more vacations actually boost productivity and performance.
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Catch up on some business school news with a few of this week’s top stories:

MBA Intern & Job Outlook Improving (Poets & Quants)

Good news for current and future MBA students! Poets & Quants reveals recruiting stats and shares how this year is shaping up to be a great year for b-school students.

Honesty Matters During the Business School Admissions Process (Graduate Guide)

Something that not every MBA applicant may be aware of is that he or she could be subjected to a background screening. Check out this post from Graduate Guide to find out more about the business school background check.

Mission Admission: Picking a Safety School (mbaMission)

Struggling to figure out which business schools to categorize as your safties? MbaMission has some great suggestions for what to consider when determining your safety schools.

Can Globalization be Taught in B-School? (The Wall Street Journal Careers)

This week WSJ published an interesting interview with Pankaj Ghemawat, a professor of global strategy at IESE Business School in Barcelona, who claims that schools must do a better job explaining globalization”and its many limits.

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Catch up on your b-school news with some of this week’s top stories:

How Hard Do MBAs Work? (Poets & Quants)

Here’s an interesting statistical breakdown of the average workweek for MBAs around the world. Can you guess which continent logs the most hours?

B-School Chart of the Week: Most Popular Job Functions by Industry (mbaMission)

This interactive chart from mbaMission is helpful if you’re trying to decide which industry you want to enter and what kind of functional role you want to fulfill.

Get MBA Application Advice From the Trenches (U.S. News Education)

Past MBA applicants reflect on their own experiences and offer some helpful advice for prospective students.

Harvard Tops the 2013 MBA Rankings (Financial Times)

For the first time in eight years Harvard Business School pulled ahead of Stanford Graduate School of Business to top the Financial Times MBA Rankings.

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Here’s a roundup of some of this week’s top business school related articles:

B-School Chart of the Week: Which B-Schools Produce the Best-Performing CEOs? (mbaMission)

Trying to decide where to go to business school? Have a look at where others have garnered great success.

Job Market Improving for Business School Graduates (U.S. News Education)

A new survey reveals that business school graduates’ job prospects are on the rise and are as good as they’ve been since 2003.
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Here’s a roundup of some of this week’s top business school related articles:

Women in Business School: Why So Few? (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Bloomberg offers some explanations for why men outnumber women on business school campuses.

U.S. News Ranks Online MBA Programs (Poets & Quants)

U.S. News recently released online MBA program rankings for the first time ever. Check out what Poets & Quants had to say about the report.

Harvard Might Be the Best in Business, But Those Excelling in Entrepreneurship are Babson & MIT (BostInno)

Interested in pursuing an MBA in entrepreneurship? BostInno reviews Bloomberg Businessweek’s rankings of the top programs for entrepreneurship.
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Here’s a roundup of some of this week’s top business school related articles:

How to Choose MBA Elective Courses (U.S. News Education)

Be smart when choosing electives in business school. Here are some electives that MBAs and professors advise graduate business students to pursue.

B-School Chart of the Week: Number of Living Alumni (mbaMission)

Looking for an MBA program with a sizable alumni base?  Check out this chart on mbaMission for some insight into which schools have the most living alumni.

M.B.A. Pop Quiz: Are You Employable? (The Wall Street Journal)

Business school admissions committees look for employable people. Some MBA programs are now using career-services staff to evaluate applicants.
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Here is what happened in the world of GMAT this week…

• Poets and Quants ranked the top 50 Non-U.S. MBA Programs.
• The Wall Street Journal took a look at the finances of Business Schools (subscription required).
• Our friends at mbaMission looked at how an MBA can increase income mobility.

Have a great weekend, everybody!

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