On Monday, May 1, Chicago Booth stated that businessman and philanthropist Ross Stevens, Ph.D. '96, had given the school's Ph.D. program $100 million to help push the boundaries of academic business research. The program will be called the Stevens Doctoral Program to honor Stevens.
People often decide to pursue an MBA without giving it much thought, but that's not a good idea. Before you start getting ready to apply, you should really think about why you want to get the degree and make sure it's the right choice for you. Here are five indicators that can help you decide if you're ready to apply to business school or not.
Have you ever woken up from a recurring nightmare in which you had to take an exam for which you hadn't studied? No one likes the feeling of not being prepared. And this worry takes over many parts of our professional lives. No one wants to be caught off guard in front of an MBA admissions committee, a current client or boss, or even a networking event. The answer is to be confident in all of these conversations and presentations. How? Preparedness. In this blog post, we'll talk about what you should do to get ready for a variety of common career scenarios.
Becoming a great manager is essential for becoming a great leader. Good managers not only extract great output from their employees, but they also relieve the executive team of most of the day-to-day operations, allowing them to focus on more tactical challenges. Leaders develop a vision, while managers develop goals and guide their teams toward shared goals connected to that vision. This blog post will go over five strategies to becoming a successful manager.
Some people have a lifelong dream working in the entertainment industry. It is common knowledge that finding employment in this heavily fortified sector of the economy is not only difficult, but perhaps possibly the hardest industry in the whole world to break into. How do you get inside? By creating connections at the right business school, which include USC, UCLA, NYU and Harvard.
Not every MBA graduate plans to use their degrees to switch to Goldman Sachs & Co., and that's fine. In this blog post, we’re going to talk about entertainment and media as a "non-traditional" career path after business school. What do admissions committees look for? Let your passion serve as the foundation of your application if you want to pursue a career in entertainment and media.
As a proportion of all MBA grads, 13% of Marshall's graduating class works in the entertainment/media sector, which is more than twice as many as UCLA Anderson's (6.5%) or NYU Stern's (4.3%) alumni. In addition to Marshall's closeness to major players in the entertainment and media industries and the consulting and finance firms that support them, the USC MBA program offers students three main benefits. In this blog, we talk about them.
For some people, working in the entertainment industry is their lifelong dream. People come from all over the world to work in Hollywood, New York, Canada, London, and even Bollywood because of the glitz, glamour, and gluttony. It is a well-known fact that getting a job in this highly walled fortress of employment is not only challenging, but also arguably the hardest industry in the world to get into. How do you gain access?
In prior years, we excluded USC Marshall from our entertainment and media ranking as it fell outside of the business schools regarded as top 15 by US News and Businessweek. However, given the overwhelming strength of Marshall's strength within the entertainment/media, we've updated our 2018 entertainment and media ranking to provide a more relevant assessment.
