Understanding the 5 C’s to decide whether to get an MBA.

5 pitfalls for recent grads starting a company

MBA graduates with an overall optimistic outlook spend less time and effort searching for jobs and receive offers more quickly, research shows

Morten T. Hansen, a management professor at the University of California’s School of Information, and Herminia Ibarra, professor for organizational behaviour at Insead are attempting to do away with the usual rankings of top CEOs - who’s the most respected, the best paid, the most popular.

A pair of MBA students at MIT have set their satirical gun sights on the business school world and MBAs with a web show that's steadily developing a cult following.

The age-old fight in business education in regard to the Case Method has now been won, argues Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management in the “Financial Times” - only to render the battle over the case study as a tool in business research more vitriolic than ever.

Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank usually hears the “Should I get my MBA?” question at least once a month. Here's his answer for those interested in entrepreneurship.

The best-selling case study of all time at Harvard Business School (HBS) is not about Coca-Cola or Microsoft, but the Cleveland-based arc welding manufacturer Lincoln Electric. First published in 1975, the case has sold roughly 300,000 copies. Almost every MBA candidate at Harvard reads the original or one of several updated versions, as do tens of thousands more business students across America.

I stumbled on that publishing tidbit soon after stumbling onto the story of Lincoln Electric and its amazing unbroken "guaranteed employment" promise. But I was puzzled: if so many prospective MBAs, who become America's corporate elite, study the documented importance of a guaranteed employment promise to this company's decades-long record of success, why is it such a rarity?

Groups like MBAs Without Borders give B-school graduates experience in the developing world, and just maybe a new career.

An Environmental Defense Fund program gives MBA students a crash course in energy efficiency. Then the MBAs crunch the numbers to show the payoff to a company's bottom line.

Going through school to get an MBA can take a few years away from your life and work. These days you don’t always have time to take a few years and be a student. You’ve got bills to pay! This list of 100 business blogs can bring you up to speed in the briefcase world so you can take a detour around the MBA education route.

Shouldn't business and business schools be looking at their practices and precepts with the same critical eye as the economics profession? Three questions, culled from Alan Webber's book, Rules of Thumb, can help propel the thinking on these issues in the right direction.

In a world that requires business leaders to address the concerns of all their stakeholders, we must reshape management education to be both practical and aspirational.

New books and revisited history illuminate the irrelevance of today’s MBA — and ways to make it compelling again.

For years, an MBA degree has been seen as a first-class ticket to the management fast track. Some spend $100,000 or more to earn the degree, confident that it will propel their career into overdrive — and often that’s not an unreasonable expectation. To many hiring managers, an MBA on the resume is a sure sign that the candidate has long-term, corner-office potential.

To a growing number of critics, though, the once-golden MBA is quickly losing its luster. There’s a quiet revolt brewing against MBA programs, and the barbarians at the gate aren’t outsiders but rather the B-school academic elite.

When it comes to the practical value of the degree, the once-lonely voices of dissent have, in recent years, grown into a chorus of criticism. Among their accusations: The degree is over-hyped, MBA curricula are out of touch with real-world demands, and many programs have a culture that turns a blind eye to cheating. If the business world starts paying attention to these naysayers, that $100,000 tuition or the decision to pay big bucks to hire an MBA may start looking like less of a sound investment. Here’s the latest critical thinking about the MBA and implications for managers and companies that depend on them most.

Some of the top colleges and universities in the world provide free business administration courses online. Here is a list of the best sources.

Businessmen grouse about them, but the best ones have financial skills that corporations badly need.

Editor's Note: this is an interesting read even though (or perhaps because?) it was written in 1985...

Think sales managers are the only ones who worry about forecasting? A simulation tool helps students grasp the complexity of managing sales organizations.

What is the point of research carried out in business schools?

Managers want the status of professionals, but not all managers want the constraints that go along with professions. Why? For more than 100 years, business education at the top universities has been searching for its soul. HBS professor Rakesh Khurana, author of a new book, says business school education is at a turning point.

If you've ever toyed with the idea of going back to school to get your MBA, BNET's newest blog -- Back to B-School -- is for you. You'll learn how to get into business school and what to expect once you get there, but it's more than just academics. It's also about creating the right balance between work, home and school. It's about getting your MBA without losing your job or sanity.

Seth Godin reprints an article he originally wrote for Fast Company about a different kind of MBA...

Getting a good job often requires a bit of gamesmanship. But for some M.B.A. students, landing a new position is all about playing games.

Recruiters are urging students to curb their egos in job interviews.

Proponents of self-learning say that B-schools are a waste of time and money. Traditional MBAs say there's no substitute for the Halls of Ivy.