MBAs Guide

MBA graduates face the toughest job market for years

But the best prepared and most adaptable are still landing work

Inside MBAs Guide

Are business schools doing enough to make women welcome?

Thursday, 7 October 2010

For the past 30 years, business schools have been bemoaning a lack of women on their MBAs. And progress has been made – from virtually none during the Eighties, there are now three women for every seven men on an MBA course worldwide. But numbers seem to have reached a plateau in the past few years, with MBAs lagging behind the likes of law and medical school, and especially undergraduate business degrees, which attract roughly the same numbers of men and women.

Buoyed by a new 20-acre campus, Edhec aims to become a research powerhouse

Thursday, 7 October 2010

Optimism is the order of the day at Edhec Business School. The Grand École just outside Lille in northern France is the country's biggest provider of management education and is now trying to transform itself into an international education and research powerhouse. It has built a new campus, opened six research centres, and energetically recruited faculty and students from around the world. Edhec's rise is the latest sign of how French and European business education is reinventing itself for the 21st century.

2012 Games: From intern to sports operations chief

Thursday, 7 October 2010

Chris Lipscomb tells Peter Brown how he landed a job procuring equipment for the 2012 Games

Business students inspired by a passage to India

Thursday, 7 October 2010

Widget Finn reports on a self-funded trip to study innovation and enterprise

'I studied for my Masters while biking through Africa

Thursday, 7 October 2010

Many students take their MBA at a distance – but few stretch the idea as far as Nigel Clifford, 47, who studied towards his Open University qualification while riding an off-road motorbike from England to Gambia, in West Africa. Now sales manager for Airflow Engineering, a company selling specialist equipment to industry, he has a background in the chemical industry and in developing care homes for the elderly, and decided to take an MBA in order to boost his career.