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M.B.A. Programs That Get You Where You Want to Go
With some 13,000 graduate schools of business across the globe, the M.B.A. degree has clearly become a commodity. Even among elite schools, courses and case studies are pretty much water from the same well (i.e., finance, operations, marketing, accounting). So how do you choose? By using the rankings? Which ones? The Economist’s? Businessweek’s? The Financial Times’s?
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Reddit CEO Ellen Pao, Feminist Hero, Eliminates Salary Negotiations for New Employees
Adam Grant and Matthew Bidwell of the Wharton school comment on how men tend to negotiate more aggressively than women and how a ban on salary negotiations could affect Reddit’s strategy to poach employees.
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UC San Diego Gets $100 Million Pledge for Business School
The University of California at San Diego received a $100 million pledge for its graduate school of management to help recruit faculty and provide scholarships. The school is already named for the donors, Evelyn and Ernest Rady, who gave $30 million in 2004 to create the Rady School of Management and almost $10 million more since then.
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Accepted to Every Ivy League School: How Did This Teenager Reach His Goal? (+Video)
Harold Ekeh of Long Island, New York, just accomplished the Ivy League sweep. He received acceptance letters from all eight schools. Coming to New York from Nigeria at 8-years-old, Mr. Ekeh has become a prime example of what it takes to get into the Ivy League: passion.
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New Prize Rewards Economic Diversity at Colleges
Top colleges have many reasons to avoid enrolling a lot of low-income students. The students need financial aid, which can strain a university’s budget. Although many of the students have stellar grades, they often have somewhat lower SAT scores than affluent students, which can hurt a university’s ranking.
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Study Finds Risk of Breast, Ovarian Cancer Dependent on Type of BRCA1 or BRCA2 Mutation
Timothy Rebbeck of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about varying BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations and how this affects cancer risks.
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Fraternity Supports U-Va. Chapter in What Could Be Difficult Libel Battle
The national Phi Kappa Psi fraternal organization Tuesday excoriated Rolling Stone magazine and offered support for plans by the fraternity’s chapter at the University of Virginia to sue the magazine for a story that portrayed members as sexual predators. A day after the U-Va.
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Penn State May Settle Another Sandusky Lawsuit
Pennsylvania State University this week is looking to end one of the remaining lawsuits filed by a victim of the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal, according to sources. The school's board of trustees is scheduled to meet Thursday morning to discuss "potential settlements" and possibly vote, said spokeswoman Lisa Powers.
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Penn Study Finds Faster Learners Don’t Overthink
Danielle Bassett of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is highlighted in a front-page story for leading a study revealing that differences in neural activity change learning rates.
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Villanova Appoints Its First Provost
Villanova University on Tuesday appointed its first provost, Patrick G. Maggitti, who currently serves as dean of the business school. Maggitti will take over on Aug. 1 as the university’s chief academic officer and second-in-command of the Main Line Catholic university, which enrolls more than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students.