But the ISB took No. 13 on a Financial Times list of global MBA programs.
Wherever they come from, global MBA students tend to be polyglot cosmopolitans.
By including opportunities to practically apply ethical decision-making models, global MBA programs better prepare students for the challenges they will face in the business world.
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The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton school, which has topped the new Financial Times's Global MBA rankings for another year, has just highlighted a subject that companies need to be increasingly aware of: religion in the workplace.
Trium, a Global Executive MBA programme run jointly by NYU-Stern school, HEC Paris and the London School of Economics, is celebrating its tenth anniversary by adding a second cohort in 2012.
Before coming back to Boston College (I am a proud alum), I spent over ten years at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland simply the best executive education institute in the world leading executive education programs and founding their global Executive MBA program.
The Economist and The Financial Times are similar to U.S. News in that they employ a mix of factors, some subjective and some objective, and because they are published in Europe, they focus on global rankings of MBA programs.
This special report examines the benefits and challenges of taking, and providing, an MBA education during a global slowdown, when neither the Indian graduate nor the American applicant is guaranteed a job at the end of it.
The experience was very similar to getting an MBA from the best global university in the world. 250 of us, from 60 different countries, gathered for the common purpose of economic progress based on mutual interest and mutual respect.
All these changes powered an explosion in global creativity and transformed opportunities for MBA graduates.
Bing, MD, PhD, MBA is Senior Fellow and Director of Global Health at the George W. Bush Institute and Professor at Southern Methodist University.
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Signature programmes include Beyond Grey Pinstripes, a global data base and report card on MBA business education, and the Corporate Values Strategy Group, a forum for business leaders to promote change in policy and business practice in pursuit of long-term value creation.
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Most remarkably, Mikitani, a graduate of Hitotsubashi University whose first job was with Industrial Bank of Japan (now Mizuho Bank) that sent him to Harvard for an MBA in 1993, has been driving his company to realize his global business vision.
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The league table is officially known as a 'meta ranking', bringing in statistics gathered from the London-based newspaper's five more specialized rankings compiled earlier in the year, for global MBAs, executive education courses, masters degrees in management and Executive MBA (EMBA) programs.
But with an improving global jobs market, many schools are now seeing a fall in full-time MBA applications.
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