Pellagia Muliba shares a story on her Thunderbird profile about her mother bringing a few used sewing machines into their Zimbabwe village. She hired a seamstress, and bought patterns and material with the help of a micro-loan. Her mom taught her sister to sew, and her sister taught her children. Pellagia’s aunt and cousins operate a successful family sewing business to this day.
Pellagia witnessed how business can positively impact individuals, families, and communities. The Thunderbird SHARE scholarship gave her the opportunity to immerse herself in the study of business and gain the necessary skills to fulfill her dreams, which as you’ll see in the video below, are big.
Hispanic Business released its ranking for top MBA programs for Hispanic students in the September issue. The top 10 are:
1. University of Texas at San Antonio College of Business
2. University of Texas at El Paso College of Business Administration
3. University of Miami School of Business Administration
4. University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business
5. Stanford University Graduate School of Business
6. University of New Mexico Anderson School of Management
7. Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
8. Florida International University Chapman Graduate School of Business
9. University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business
10. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School
University of Chicago Booth School of Business Offers New MBA Classes
Released July 14, 2009
The Analytics of Financial Crises is one of the new courses to be offered to MBA students by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business during the 2009-10 academic year beginning September 24, the school announced today.
A second new course, The Firm and the Non-Market Environment, will examine business lobbying, regulation, environmental issues, corporate social responsibility and other topics.
Other new courses include Introductory Finance, a hybrid finance class covering both corporate finance and investments that will allow all the standard corporate finance and investment classes to be taken up a notch in difficulty, according to the school.
Also new this year are: Business, Politics, and Ethics; Advanced Microeconomic Theory; and Game Theory.
Stanford Business School Secures New Source of Loans for International Graduate Students
STANFORD, Calif., June 9 (AScribe Newswire) — Stanford Graduate School of Business today announced the launch of a new private loan program through Star One Credit Union to provide financial assistance to students admitted to the School’s MBA, PhD, and Sloan Master’s programs. An especially welcome relief to international students, the custom loans, which cover tuition and living expenses, will be available to those without a U.S. co-signer.
“The crisis in the global financial sector had threatened our ability to provide equal access to needed assistance among all our students, who hold passports from more than 50 countries,” said Jack Edwards, director of Financial Aid at Stanford Business School. “By securing this loan program with Star One Credit Union, we are pleased to continue our commitment, unbroken since 1999, to offer loans to international students under similarly favorable terms and competitive rates as those available to domestic students.”
The new dean of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business is Garth Saloner, an economist, popular teacher and a leader in management education.
Saloner, 54, takes over as the school seeks to expand its reach into the global economy and launches construction of a new 360,000-square-foot campus slated for completion by 2011.
A Stanford faculty member since 1990, Saloner is known for forging contacts between the school and the business leaders of Silicon Valley, and has promoted collaboration between students in the business school and those in other departments.
U.S. News & World report released its 2009 MBA rankings based on a survey of 426 programs. Here are the top 20 MBA programs in the USA. Be sure to note the actual ranking to the left because there are several ties.
1. Harvard University
2. Stanford University
3. Northwestern University (Kellogg)
3. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
5. University of Chicago (Booth) Read the rest of this entry »
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