What I’m watching election night
After months of anticipation, piles of money spent, endless TV commercials watched and too many visits from candidates to count, the 2020 election is finally here. Several of my colleagues…
university-level institution granting degrees in business administration
After months of anticipation, piles of money spent, endless TV commercials watched and too many visits from candidates to count, the 2020 election is finally here. Several of my colleagues…
Katherine Timpf of National Review Online highlights an unusual element of the application process for Dartmouth’s business school. Dartmouth’s business school has announced that it will judge its applicants partially…
The Charlotte Observer over the weekend had an article on “Why Belk was smart to sell itself when it did.” The reason, as you might have guessed, is that department…
The latest Bloomberg Businessweek documents interesting changes in the traditional approach to higher education in business. When Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business launched an online MBA program in 1999,…
It’s not just our governor who thinks higher education should be more closely aligned with job prospects and tangible, marketable skills. Business schools have realized the value of an MBA…
Washington Times editorial page editor Brett Decker recently interviewed BB&T former chairman and CEO John Allison. Here’s a highlight: Government policy is the primary cause of the financial crisis. The…
Unfortunately, it is one of the nation’s top ten business schools in the Aspen Institute’s ranking of schools on “social responsibility.” Read about it here. My guess is that alums…
Not long after North Carolina allowed its global warming commission to expire with little fanfare, California might be ready to move in the same direction. John Gizzi discusses California’s Proposition…
Well Ayn Rand has been causing a stir: Western Carolina University?s College of Business recently secured a $1 million donation from BB&T ? but not before discerning faculty fought to…
As we all know, there are enough regulations that all businesses are in violation. If a principal makes an enemy, as politicians do, he can get in trouble with the…
Nassim Taleb says, I noticed that while _____ models got worse and worse in tracking reality, their use kept increasing as if nothing was happening. Why? … It looks like…
In an event much more closely aligned to the traditional role of higher education, JLF’s Faculty Affiliate Network and Barton College’s School of Business assembled a seminar on economic development…