Harvard MBA Graduates, Others Pledge Responsibility: Video

Berkeley's is the latest business school to shake up its MBA courses “VALUES” are all the rage at business schools nowadays. This week around 300 graduating MBAs at Harvard Business School will take an oath, pledging to play a positive role in society once they graduate. At the last count, this is slightly fewer Harvard MBAs than took the oath when it was introduced last year; but thanks in part to a new book by the authors of the oath, the idea is spreading through business schools like wildfire. There are now over 3,000 signatories from more than 300 institutions.

Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen is the father of the idea of disruptive innovation, and one of a select few business thinkers who can claim that their theories influence the behavior of top companies. 

There comes a time in a Wall Streeter's life when he or she must make a decision about how to advance their career. For many that means deciding whether to head to Business School for a Masters in Business Administration, or to take the Certified Financial Analyst exams — the CFA.

People leave high paying banking and consulting jobs to get MBA's because top programs provide a big salary bump. 

BusinessWeek - For the first time, the three top business schools in the Bloomberg BusinessWeek ranking of full-time MBA programs find themselves with vacancies in the dean's office.On Mar.25, we launched a three-part series examining the dean searches now underway at No.1 University of Chicago's Booth School of Business (Booth Full-Time MBA Profile), No.2 Harvard Business School (Harvard Full-Time MBA Profile), and No.3 Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management (Kellogg Full-Time MBA Profile). ...

BusinessWeek - For the first time, the three top business schools in the Bloomberg BusinessWeek ranking of full-time MBA programs find themselves with vacancies in the dean's office.On Mar.25, we launched a three-part series examining the dean searches now underway at No.1 University of Chicago's Booth School of Business (Booth Full-Time MBA Profile), No.2 Harvard Business School (Harvard Full-Time MBA Profile), and No.3 Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management (Kellogg Full-Time MBA Profile). ...

There has been a lot of recent discussion on these forums as well as in the media regarding the value of an MBA. As a longtime member of the community and someone who recently made the decision to pursue an MBA, I thought I’d share some thoughts.