I have found that the biggest chal­lenge my stu­dents are hav­ing, in terms of scor­ing the top marks in the Busi­ness IA, is related to their use of ana­lyt­i­cal tools. In gen­eral, you have a Research Ques­tion and you’re try­ing to arrive at your answer. A very com­mon mis­take is that stu­dents do a lot of […]

Today’s grad­u­ates face a new breed of chal­lenges as they enter the work­force. They will con­front messier, intractable prob­lems such as cli­mate change, global ter­ror­ism, antibi­otic resis­tant dis­eases and per­sis­tent mar­ket weak­ness. The same tech­nolo­gies that empow­ered them as learn­ers at the same time also mul­ti­plied the poten­tial for global havoc. And this has changed the definition […]

Would you rather get paid to do noth­ing? Or would you pre­fer to have an impor­tant, chal­leng­ing job? Tim­o­thy Fer­ris (in The 4 Hour Work Week) basi­cally advo­cates the no-work option. What could be bet­ter than doing noth­ing all day and still get­ting paid? Per­son­ally I wouldn’t refuse being paid to laze around the pool of […]

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