MBA finance modules: Should qualified accountants be exempt?

Published: 18 January 2007

You are a qualified accountant with an ambition to become chief executive. To make the grade, you'll need to learn more about general business strategy but don't see the value of sitting in on finance classes that tell you what you already know. How will schools react to this?

How to harness your full MBA potential

Published: 18 January 2007

Caroline Haydon discovers an ambitious programme that seeks to solve your personal problems - and world hunger

How blogs can help you chooose a business school

Published: 18 January 2007

Schools should take note: candidates may glean more about a course from blogs than from a glossy prospectus

Business leaders of the future

Published: 18 January 2007

Harriet Swain meets two winners of this year's Durham MBA/Independent Newspaper Scholarship competition

Diversity is the key to US success

Published: 18 January 2007

Revamped courses are attracting consultants, bankers and Broadway dancers, says Peter Brown

Distance learning: Don't give up your day job

Published: 18 January 2007

The internet has helped make distance learning a viable alternative, says Nic Paton

Four corners: MBA students from around the world talk about their first term

Published: 18 January 2007

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How to successfully pitch business ideas

Published: 18 January 2007

Entrepreneurship may be instinctive, but presenting to venture capitalists benefits from rehearsal, says Nic Paton

Russia: Building business schools for budding oligarchs

Published: 18 January 2007

The Kremlin is backing two multi-million pound business schools - but they're only for the wealthy, says Andrew Osborn in Moscow

Can Shakespeare really be a useful management tool?

Published: 18 January 2007

Last term an imaginative new management programme called Politics, Power and the Art of Influence was launched at the Said Business School, Oxford. Designed for experienced executives, it combines Shakespeare's history play, Julius Caesar, role play and modern management theory. Similar courses have been taught at other schools, including the Cranfield MBA course.

MBAs: The battle for greater flexibility

Published: 18 January 2007

Business schools are competing for students by offering increasingly varied modes of study, says Hilary Wilce

Women in business: How business schools aim to help

Published: 18 January 2007

The number of women directors has fallen. Mary Braid looks at how business schools are addressing the problem

The Armed Forces: Learning on the front line

Published: 12 October 2006

Members of the armed forces are adding to their skills with an MBA. Amy McLellan reports

Do business leaders or academics make the best deans?

Published: 12 October 2006

It may be tough at the top but it's even tougher finding top people. A good dean can make a huge difference to a business school, but dean-hunting is a lot trickier than it once was, thanks to the expansion of the sector and increased expectations about what a dean's talents ought to be.