The 30 Day MBA 3rd Ed

The 30 Day MBA Your Fast Track Guide to Business Success T Introduction The real value of an MBA What an MBA knows Why YOU need that knowledge too Where to get MBA knowledge – from the best schools (not just from one) How to use this book he value of MBA knowledge has been put to the test in the years following the world credit crunch. When Lehman Brothers, a bank that had survived the great depression of 1929, collapsed, the queues of their employees exiting their offices worldwide clutching cardboard boxes of their personal effects included the alumni of almost every top business school. The 2012 edition of MBA Application Trends, produced by the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), the leading source of research and information about quality graduate management education, reveals a reassuring confidence in the value of the MBA. The 13th since GMAC introduced the annual survey in 2000, it included more participants than ever before: a record-breaking 744 programmes were represented in the survey from 359 business schools. Two-thirds (66 per cent) of participating schools were located in the United States; however, a record percentage of programmes (34 per cent) from elsewhere in the world are represented in their findings.