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Entrepreneurship Gains Momentum at Business Schools
Tweet Share on Facebook November 18, 2011 Comment (4)With Global Entrepreneurship Week underway, the debate over whether entrepreneurship can really be taught—after all, some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs didn't even go to business school—seems to have died down a bit.
In fact, more and more M.B.A. programs have ramped up the number of contests and classes designed to help students learn how to transform a good idea into a good business. According to a 2011 survey of 476 prospective M.B.A.'s in 79 countries by CarringtonCrisp, a market research firm, entrepreneurship is now among the top five most sought-after areas of course content.
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Strive to Lighten Your M.B.A. Debt Load, or Budget Well
Tweet Share on Facebook November 4, 2011 Comment (1)Attending a top-tier business school is—you guessed it—an expensive proposition. Take Harvard Business School: The M.B.A. class of 2013 student budget hovers around $84,000 for tuition, living expenses, travel, and other ancillary costs. Once you tack on the opportunity cost of two years of forgone salary, it's easy to see why, as Poets & Quants points out, six-figure debt is commonplace for most graduating M.B.A.'s.
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