In 2014, the MBA became the world's most popular advanced degree. But author and faculty chair Lisa Kay Solomon suggests that it's time to redesign the MBA, primarily by changing what the initials M, B, A stand for. ( Entrepreneur)
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Twenty years ago, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos gave his staff some advice on three critical questions to ask themselves prior to making hiring decisions. Those questions have stood the test of time. ( Inc.)
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A black woman in America on average has to work more than eight additional months to earn the average of that a white man does in one calendar year. This week marked the milestone and one year anniversary of Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. ( Bloomberg)
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If the simplest of tasks require twice as long as anybody else in the office for you to complete, you might be doing things that are making work harder for yourself. Here are four things to watch for that may be making work harder than it needs to be. ( Fast Company)
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A group of businessmen from U.S-based Government Relations firm Potomac International Partners discuss a multitude of business issues, including how the Trump Administration is affecting multinational market-entry and the state of lobbying in this country at this time. ( Forbes)
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Does business school education really shape students’ minds and behaviors many years later, when they’ve reached decision-making positions at major corporations and financial institutions? ( Harvard Business Review)
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These data analytics programs across the nation are creating new pathways for international students in the United States who are looking to advance in the next big field. ( Business Because)
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Registration is now open for the National Black MBA Association’s annual conference.
About 10,000 professionals are expected to attend the event when it returns to the city where it first convened four decades ago: Detroit.
Cobo Center will be the site of the 40th Annual Conference and Exposition Registration is open for the conference, scheduled for Sept. 25-29, whose "OneVoice.OneMission" theme will promote educational and economic empowerment for black Americans.
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A report from the Institute for Supply Management suggests that manufacturing companies, including small businesses, say they are paying higher prices for raw materials and delivery times are delayed as a result of the new U.S. tariffs on imports. ( Inc.)
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China announced this week that it considers the 25 percent tariffs levied on some Chinese goods by the Trump Administration to be "very unreasonable", and that it will impose 25 percent tariffs on an additional $16 billion worth of imports from the United States beginning on Aug. 23. ( Bloomberg)
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New York has become the first U.S. city to cap the number of ride-sharing vehicles and require Uber, Lyft, and other companies to pay drivers a minimum rate. ( CNN Money)
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