Primates at Business Education : Harvard

MBA - Mediocre But Arrogant
MBA - Master of Brainless Axioms

HBS continues to do well, but it seems they at least get their well-paid (and academically acclaimed) members together to work hard at keeping their international standing (read full article on ft.com).

In the year that sees HBS reach the centenary mark it is good that they are looking to deploy their $2.8bn endowment (£1.4bn, €1.8bn) to position themselves for more years of b-school dominance. They might find it increasingly difficult, with the top schools in USA and Europe rapidly catching up on various elements of FT ranking. It is also interesting to see how the various schools are responding to the "but how do you measure your success" - and have sought to write case-studies in true academic fashion (sadly our access is no longer valid for academic journals - a real shame).

The car analogy of a car: in their previous jobs, incoming students had concentrated on one aspect of the business – the windscreen wipers or the tyres. An MBA opens the bonnet and shows how the whole engine fits together. Yet the MBA does not teach implementation. You don’t come out as a mechanic.
Neil Courtis, INSEAD Graduate of December 2007

All this, yet companies still queue up at certain business schools to hire...
Once I get a fixed abode, I intend to subscribe the the HBS Business Review - as they at least manage to include some practical concepts for once - to keep in touch with the useful academic rigour/content/thinking

Read the second ft.com article here

too serious, need some R&R : take a venture into go-karting within SecondLife