10
Business/ Culture/
96.7% Of The Time You Spend At B -School Is Completely Wasted
Bianca Male (Business Insider)
Submitted at 7/8/2010 11:34:00 AM
The debate over whether or not an entrepreneur should get an MBA has strong advocates on both sides.
In a talk at Stanford earlier this year, 37Signals co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson adds fuel to the side that, for individuals who want to start their own business, MBAs are pretty useless.
Hansson says that "96.7% of the time" he spent at Copenhagen Business School was completely wasted. In fact, he thinks that he came out of it "slightly damaged" when it came to actually starting a business.
B-school, he explains, "is not very well-suited to the real world of just building a product, pleasing customers, and making profits as a business."
Hansson continues on to say that almost all of the tools that you learn end up being completely irrelevant,
ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion Blogs)
Submitted at 7/8/2010 9:01:00 AM
The World Cup's almost over, but there's one more souvenir to
particularly for a business that's just starting out. Which is why, as an entrepreneur, you end up having to "unlearn" most of your MBA.
Check out the clip, from Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner:
Click here to see the rest of Hansson's talk at Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner> Join the conversation about this story »
See Also:
• Entrepreneurs: How To Decide If You Should Get Your MBA • Why So Many B-School Grads Suck At Starting Companies • The World's Best Business Schools
E-reader News Edition
BOE and ECB Leave Interest Rates Unchanged
Wade Hansen (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 7/8/2010 11:50:00 AM
Filed under: International Markets
Both the Bank of England (BOE) and the European Central Bank (ECB) signaled they believe their economies need further help from cheap money as they announced Thursday morning that they will be leaving interest rates low and unchanged. The BOE left interest rates at 0.5%-- where they have been since March 2009. The ECB left interest rates at 1%-- the same level they have been at since May 2009.
Continue reading BOE and
ECB Leave Interest Rates Unchanged
BOE and ECB Leave Interest Rates Unchanged originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
Bank of England- European Central Bank- Interest rate- BloggingStocks- Central bank
One Last World Cup Souvenir Courtesy of Tod's
get your hands on -- and it's one you'll probably wear long after trophy's are handed out and South Africa suffers a mass exodus. Tod's just released their leather wrap bracelets and they're calling them "My
Colors" since you'll probably want the ones best representing your team. And even though there are only two teams left, the bracelets still represent everyone. Call us stubborn, but
we'll take red, white & blue please.
Available at all Tod's boutiques.
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77