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Showing 1 to 20 of 728 for “"MBA"”.
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MBA quality: An examination of stakeholder perspectives
… of the ongoing debate regarding the quality of MBA programmes in the UK and contextualizes and articulates the concerns regarding the quality of MBA programmes emanating from within and outside the teaching profession. The MBA environment in the UK is examined in detail and both typologies of …
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The MBA Degree - What Does It Mean?
… 'a man for all seasons.'" | Is this the typical MBA graduate? Does he possess the above-mentioned attributes? If he does have such qualities, he should be able to fare pretty well in the business world. Will the MBA degree mean as much to the graduate as it does to the typical Wharton MBA who …
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Building Manager Communication Competencies in Canadian MBA Programs
… gap, the research question was “How can Canadian MBA programs, equip managers with advanced communication competencies that will enable them to build trust, engagement and drive change in a complex business context?” The two objectives for this study were to: (1) identify which communication …
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Impediments affecting entrepreneurial intent in South African MBA graduates
… This was tested amongst a group of well-educated MBA graduates through the use of face-to-face, semi-structured interviews to probe emerging perceptions around entrepreneurial intention. The findings from the research identified that the assumption behind MBA graduates being the ideal demographic …
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Wages and diversity : evidence from minority MBA job officers
… job offers made to graduating African-American MBAs that specifically exploits the presence of individuals with multiple job offers. Only by correcting for the quality of the candidate, can genuine inter-firm comparisons be made. Empirical testing of the data indicates a positive relationship …
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Does An MBA Help Women? : A Comparative Study Of The Career Progress And Labour Market Position Of Part Time Male And Female MBA Graduates
This thesis aims to assess the extent to which an MBA helps women and to ascertain whether significant barriers persist, despite their qualification to their career development. It takes as its frame of reference the sex difference approach within liberal feminism, which argues that key differences …
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Estudio de la oferta formativa de los programas tipo MBA
… etiqueta de Master of Business Administration (MBA). Este documento presenta los resultados de un trabajo de investigación acerca de la oferta formativa de los programas tipo MBA en Bogotá. Esto, con base en un amplio estudio bibliográfico, documental y audiovisual, así como la indagación …
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Computer support of collaborative case based learning by MBA students
Many UK MBA programmes adopt a collaborative approach to the Harvard style of experiential case based learning. Within such programmes there is widespread use of computers but it is not clear how this improves student learning. Research on computer support of collaborative learning in other …
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MBA student's engagement with the proposal process: implications for access
… of the Master of Business Administration (MBA) is often cited by MBA students and graduates as the most daunting and challenging part of the MBA programme. This thesis draws on the tools of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) (Fairclough, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2009) and insights from …
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Clones in the MBA Classroom: Understanding the Relationship Between Culture and MBA Students’ Attitudes Toward Socially Responsible Business Leadership: A Mixed Methods Cross-National Study
… and views of Master of Business Administration (MBA) students from three distinctive cultural clusters regarding the factors that support CSR. The findings, gleaned from 290 surveys and three focus groups, indicate that these MBA students have almost identical motives toward CSR, which are …
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Assessing determinants of social entrepreneurial intentions among MBA students in Windhoek
… stratified random sampling, A sample size of 136 MBA first year students were selected from a population of 148 with 109 responses. Quantitative data was collected using structured questionnaires distributed using the internet for online completion. SPSS version 27 was used for statistical data …
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Building Resilience in MBA Students: Bouncing Back and Forward through Challenges
The raison d'être for MBA programs is to prepare students to lead and manage effectively in the real world. An overview of the unique challenges awaiting MBAs, however, reveals a blind spot in business education: It doesn’t necessarily prepare MBA students to operate effectively in the VUCA …
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Building Resilience in MBA Students: Bouncing Back and Forward through Challenges
The raison d'être for MBA programs is to prepare students to lead and manage effectively in the real world. An overview of the unique challenges awaiting MBAs, however, reveals a blind spot in business education: It doesn’t necessarily prepare MBA students to operate effectively in the VUCA …
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Moral accountability in the MBA : a Kantian response to a public problem
… ubiquitous Masters of Business Administration (MBA) within university based management education. Illustrating the formative-educative problem via a case study at an Australian university and drawing on a critical review of the management studies literature I argue that current approaches to …
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A Grounded Theory of "Not Pulling Weight" In Online MBA Group Work.
… an online master's in business administration (MBA) program, together with documentation analysis, the study used classical grounded theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967; Glaser, 1978; Glaser, 1992) to examine challenges professional graduate management learners may encounter in online group …
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An Exploratory Study of the Curricular Integration of Ethics in Executive Mba Programs
… Curricular Integration of Ethics in Executive MBA Programs</p><p>News headlines of corporate scandals have unleashed a contentious debate of whether or not graduate management education has contributed to corporate collapses and the resultant financial crisis. In particular, questions abound as …
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A framework that supports the acquisition of reflexive competence in a MBA : South African perspectives
… acquisition of reflexive competence, exist for MBA students. The study used a dominant – less dominant design. In-depth semi-structured interviews were used in the dominant qualitative phase to explore the views of the CHE, business schools in Gauteng, and various medium to large organisations …
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The Relationship of Debt Issue Timing to Utility Operations and How This Involves the MBA
The current demand for capital funds in this country is at an extremely high level. This high level of demand, in a time when inflation is under attack, has caused interest rates to move upward very rapidly. The full consequences of these two opposing ideas - high demand for funds and an attack on …
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MBA for the Future: análisis de factibilidad y marketing de una ONG de servicios de consultoría
… perspectivas para determinar los países dónde MBAFTF iniciará operaciones. Asimismo, utilizan reconocidos rankings internacionales para seleccionar las universidades con las que se buscarán generar acuerdos para captar a los MBAs.
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Perceptions of MBA preparation : new Master of Business Administration graduates, their employers, and higher education faculty
… of Master of Business Administration (MBA) students and recent MBA graduates with those of employers of recent MBA graduates and MBA faculty regarding the skills, competencies, and experiences needed to be successful in their new graduate jobs. The researcher gathered stakeholder …
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