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Financial pressures and fierce competition in more established markets are pushing business schools to view Africa as something more than a destination for student volunteer trips.
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As crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter become more accessible than moneyed patrons, fine-arts schools want to spark students' entrepreneurial savvy.
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Arizona State University is in talks to take over the Thunderbird School of Global Management, in a deal that would keep the financially fragile Glendale, Ariz., business school alive, but in a radically different capacity.
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Business schools want to know more about their applicants. Some elite M.B.A. programs have cut the number of required essays for admission, while others have trimmed requirements for recommendation letters.
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Second- and third-generation managers taking over the family business are fueling a rising demand among business schools for programs crafted for their specific needs in areas such as succession planning.
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Applications are rising at many elite U.S. business schools, but the increase may be more of a triumph of marketing than a growing appetite for business degrees.
UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of Management, one of the nation's top-ranked business schools, is "inhospitable to women faculty," according to an internal academic review.
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The philosophy department is invading the M.B.A. program—at least at a handful of schools where the legacy of the global financial crisis has sparked efforts to train business students to think beyond the bottom line.
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Harvard wanted non-U.S. business students to read its classic Apple case study. So it made the story into a manga.
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