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The preeminent guide to business schools is bigger and better than ever.
Here is the only business school guide that delivers the latest ratings of the schools by the people who know them best: more than 14,000 recent graduates and corporate recruiters.
This edition features:
Coverage of the top 25 business schools plus 25 runners-up
New data on how the best-schools compare
Insider tips on taking the GMAT prep courses and finessing the application process
Complete E-mail and Web site addresses
Free application software from the Princeton Review
These are just a few of the reasons that the book called "the Bible for prospective business school students in the U.S. and abroad" will continue to be the first choice of MBA candidates.
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Excellent book for those beginning the application process.......2002-07-06
This guide has been called "The bible for prospective students" by the London Times for good reason. If you are considering applying to the top programs, this guide will help you narrow your focus and apply to the schools that are the best fits for your profile. (Yes, your chances really are the greatest at the schools where you are best suited.)
BusinessWeek provides a good overview and some keen insight into the top 25 MBA programs as well as the 25 runner up programs. The guide also contains good information on its b-school ranking process. A word of caution though. This book does not contain highly detailed information on the profiled schools and if you do decide to apply to any of these schools, you will want to conduct some additional research for your "Why I want to attend your business school" essay.
Detailed information that you really need.......2002-06-26
I confess to being a professor at one of the schools mentioned in this book as the "Best". Business schools have developed a love/hate relationship with this book because although it contains a lot of good, thoughtful information, some people use it for the wrong reasons.
Make a distinction between the RANKINGS and the extended essay-type descriptions contained on the top scools. The RANKINGS tell you (possibly) two things: they tell you (maybe, sometimes) about the quality of the results the graduates get, and they tell you....well they tell you whether you will get bragging rights to your friends. In other words, the rankings have developed their own prestige which is SEPARATE from the issue of whether they have anything to do with quality.
So consider the rankings with caution...do you need the reassurance of a very high ranking....or do you really care about quality of program? This book actually tells you a great deal about the quality of the program, including everything from details about the curriculum, what they are looking for in admissions, which teachers are held in highest esteem, and general comments from recent students. THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE NUMBER. It's related to the number, but it's not the same thing.
Remember, however, not to stop with this book: the information given in any edition will start to get inaccurate before it hits the bookstore. I can think of 5 or 6 top schools with new deans within the past year or two. Perusing through the book I see a good number of "top faculty" that either have already gone on to another institution, or are non-tenured faculty on short-term contracts, who may be gone by the time you get there. Even the curricula change pretty quickly. Back up your reading of this book with school's web sites, visits, talks with alumns, etc.
After all, the question you really want the answer to is not "do grads of School W make more money and have better careers than graduates of School Y?", it's "Will I MYSELF have a better career at School W than School Y." Rather than worry about the ranking of the school you get into, find the school that works for YOU. Finally, I see other reviewers saying "this book got me into the BigBucks school." I think that reviewer's intelligence, personality, and experience got him in. If he hadn't gotten in to BigBucks, he would still be smart and hardworking, and the school that got him would have been lucky. And (for the record), the number at our school is just great!
The Best Book on the Market!.......2001-08-06
Look no further. This book has EVERYTHING one could ask for when applying to schools.
Very bad, avoid this one.......2001-03-04
I bought many books while applying to MBA. I felt that the Business Week's book could be helpful. Yet, I would suggest that you avoid this one since it has nothing except a collection of basic information that you can normally find on b-schools' website. Do not expect real insights on b-schools (it has been written by journalists who do not know much about the real stress of MBA application), no advice to craft powerful essays that will get you in, and no tip to ace interviews!!
Too Skimpky: Needs to be more in-depth to be meaningful.......2000-08-19
Take the guesswork out of the most important career decision you'll ever make! Which MBA program is right for you? Which school's grads get the highest total pay packages? Which schools have the highest-rated programs in management, finance, marketing, entrepreneurship, international business? What are the up-and-coming schools-those that may be at the top of everyone's list in a few years? And just as important, what kind of educational experience will you have in terms of campus life, workload, and curriculum? A slick brochure won't tell you. This book will! Completely revised and updated, the BusinessWeek Guide to the Best Business Schools is the only guide that provides accurate rankings and profiles of the best graduate business schools rated by the people who know them best: recent graduates and corporate recruiters. Find out how the top 50 schools stack up against one another and which international schools you might consider as well. Compare the top 25 with the 25 runners up-maybe you don't need the top school to get what you want. Discover the strengths and weaknesses of each school in: quality of teaching-including the most outstanding professors at each school as rated by the students; average starting pay for graduates, and success of placement offices in finding you your dream job; curriculum innovations and niche programs you won't hear about elsewhere; average GMATs and GPAs for admitted students; campus environment and what to expect when you arrive. Plus, get expert advice on how to increase your GMAT scores, earn big points with your applications and written essays, find today's bargains in a quality MBA education, get your school to foot part of your tuition, and much more!
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- There's more than the US
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Business Week Guide to the Best Business Schools
John A. Byrne
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Business school deans wait for it with trepidation. Prospective students adore it. Now this tell-it-like-it-is guide to America's B-schools will command an even bigger readership, thanks to mushrooming business school enrollment-up 20% at top schools-and these all-new features: expanded profiles of more schools than ever before-the top 25 schools and 25 runners-up; the real scoop on how to get into the best schools-what's important and what's not; all new comparisons and ranking of GMAT prep courses and application software packages; more data on program specifics, with detailed comparisons of each school's offerings; a timetable that guides readers through the application process. Based on one of BusinessWeek's best-selling annual issues, this guide remains the only one of its kind to evaluate the top B-schools objectively. No other source in the world has as much proprietary B-school information as BusinessWeek. It's drawn from in-depth surveys of 14,000 graduates and the recruiters who have hired them, not on fluff provided by the schools themselves.
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There's more than the US.......1999-10-22
This book is fine for people looking to get into a US school. If you are also considering a European or Asian school, spend your money on the Economist (EIU) review.
Wealth of Information.......1999-04-25
Feels good with the information that was discerned with an initial review ...
Very useful and accurate information.......1998-10-23
The information is up to date and useful for potential applicants
tells about top schools with an informal approach.......1998-07-31
This book is not for the quant jocks. tells a story not a lot of numbers but gives the important stuff that every other book has.
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Business Week's Guide to the Best Executive Education Programs
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"BusinessWeek" Guide to the Best Business Schools (Business Week Guide to the Best Business Schools)
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No other text conveys such a passion for this exciting and profoundly important discipline. This comprehensive text meets all AACSB curriculum standards, while providing excellent CPA exam preparation. A focus on human conflict makes the book sparkle. Innovative, story-telling pedagogy; fascinating cases; and business applications create student interest, while cases are summarized in the authors' own words. The result is a business law text that is authoritative and accurate, yet a pleasure to read.
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One of the Best Business Law Texts.......2000-01-12
I have been teaching Business Law for 12 years and I practiced law as a trial attorney for about 20 years before that. During this time, I have reviewed and used many different text and without a doubt, this is the best. Specifically, the authors make this subject of Business Law extremely interesting through this very readable text. It uses great examples and cases. In many places, the authors use a light-hearted approach in covering the subject which makes this text that much more readable. I also find the ancillary material excellent.
Comprehensive, student friendly, written in people language........1999-08-10
Began using this text over two years ago. I switched from a subject solid, albeit legally intimidating test that I had used for over seven years. Immediately I saw positive results: students were reading with greater comprehension, and their class participation increased. Recently I had the text customized for use in my two course sequence in business law. The customized paperback books maximize the full potential of the text for my students, as well as providing some economic benefit for the student. In the future I would like to have the opportunity to be a reviewer for future edition revisions.
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No other text conveys such a passion for this exciting and profoundly important discipline. This comprehensive text meets all AACSB curriculum standards. A focus on human conflict makes the book sparkle. Innovative, chapter-opening vignettes; fascinating cases; and business applications create student interest, while cases are excerpted, or in the language of the court. The result is a legal environment text that is authoritative and accurate, yet a pleasure to read.
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Economics Meets Sociology in Strategic Management (Advances in Strategic Management)
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The last several years has witnessed a growing interaction between economists and sociologists engaged in the study of organizations' strategies. Economists and sociologists can gain real insight from these interactions. To date, however, these interactions have been to ad hoc and unfocused to bear any real fruit. This volume moves the discussion to the next level by focusing the discussion, and taking a step toward systematizing some of the relationships between economic and sociological approaches to strategic management.
To accomplish this, the volume reprints four 'matched pairs' of influential articles on firms' strategies in economic sociology and strategic management and use these articles to frame a conversation between the articles' pioneering authors and other prominent researchers in strategic management and sociology working on closely-related research problems. Each pair of articles followed by provocative essays–inspired by the pairing–written by the articles' original authors. Two contextualizing commentaries penned by influential strategy and organizations researchers–one grounded in strategic management and one in economic sociology-extend each conversation. A reflective reply from the articles' authors concludes the conversation–for now. A framing introduction and concluding epilogue, written by volume editors Joel Baum and Frank Dobbin, set the stage both for the volume and for future conversations between the disciplines in strategic management.
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- A Must Read On Your Flight to France
- Reflections and Revelations on France and French Food
- Unfulfilling
- Beyond Foie Gras
- What a disappointment!
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A Goose in Toulouse and other Culinary Adventures in France
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Wending his way through the French countryside, Rosenblum takes readers on a tour of France. In Paris, he finds Alain Ducasse, with six Michelin stars, hard at work building an haute cuisine empire. He visits a snail rancher, oyster rustlers, and the fabled Chateau Petrus. Bruno the Truffle King rhapsodizes to him about fragrant black fungus. Looking at the way the French live through how they cook, eat, and market their cuisine, Rosenblum offers a picture of a country at war with the clichs that both define and degrade its national character.
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A Must Read On Your Flight to France.......2006-04-25
When I stumbled across this book by pure accident, I read through it from cover to cover non-stop, before traveling to France for the first time. After arriving in France, I was deeply appreciative of the background knowledge I had from the book as I experienced one culinary adventure after another, in both Paris, and in rural regions of France. If I had not read the book, it would have been impossible for me to absorb the knowledge I gained from it, through my brief travels there. Upon returning home, I was transformed forever, by my gastronomic experiences and came to realize then, and only then, how the ingredients that make up our food traditions here in America have completely lost what the French have managed to preserve but are working so hard to hold on to. We owe it to the French and this author for revealing their struggles, to continue to lend our support for the preservation of the traditions of France that provide us with so much pleasure.
Reflections and Revelations on France and French Food.......2003-11-10
This book is written by a mainstream journalist like R. W. Appel of the New York Times or Calvin Trillin of the New Yorker. As such, Mort Rosenblum looks at things culinary much more from the economic, social, and even political point of view rather than as an epicurean such as James Villas or Ruth Reichl. For that reason, the general reader will find much to interest them herein. These are not essays for only the foodies among us.
My strongest impression on reading this book is that the author is describing many of the situations which drive people, at least citizens of France and the European Union, to organize protests at world economic summits or other meetings or organizations aimed at promoting globalization. Economic conditions in France and regulations imposed by the European Union appear to be leading to the disappearance of small scale agriculture in France, the kind of agriculture which is largely responsible for the artisnal foods and wines for which France is so famous. The great irony here to my mind is that in the same last 15 years, there has been a great revival of interest in both local and international artisanal products among Americans. Whitness the great reputation and influence of Chez Panisse and the movement to support local farmers and markets plus nationally available artisanal products such as Maytag blue cheese and specialty bacons.
Another irony is that the European Union regulatory bodies are having much the same effect on smaller agricultural businesses in Europe as American regulatory agencies have on local products. They appear to be driving out of business the very agriculture which so clearly distinguishes European agricultural products from the American. The issue of cheeses from unpasturized milk is a perfect example. American customs prevents the import of any such products into the U.S. except for Rocquefort (since the French have convinced the FDA that the penicillin in this cheese kills off anything normally eliminated by Pasteurization). The problem is, the economics of producing Rocquefort is becoming so difficult that there is some danger that true Rocquefort may disappear, i.e., be too expensive to produce.
The great tragedy I sense in the disappearance of artisanal products from small scale agriculture is that it means that the relatively inexpensive pleasures one can gain from the great foods of the world are in danger of either disappearing or becoming too expensive for the average middle class foodie to afford. I would really mourn seeing things like Rocquefort or Brie go the way of caviar, simply too expensive and too rare to enjoy outside of a very expensive venue.
I strongly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys contemporary essays in general and essays on things culinary in particular. To those reviewers who found the work too dispassionate, I would point out that Rosenblum is writing journalism and not polemics. Being informed of the `desertification' of the French countryside and the reasons for same was more than enough. I will look for agendas (and recipes) in other works.
Unfulfilling.......2001-05-29
One of the best things I can say about this book is that I made it through to the end. While I love books about France and the French people, I feel that Rosenblum missed his mark. While his writing was good, it lacked passion, and was quite self-indulgent.
His travels take us on a culinary tour de France, but he seems detached and seems somewhat of a French cooking snob. If you don't know the names of the famous 3 Star Chef's and restaurants he takes his readers to, you feel a bit like an outsider looking in through the window. While there are some interesting side trips, like a visit to a truffle market, and an escargot farm, these are basically stories from a reporter's notebook. He is constantly trying to get the answer to the question about the changing role of food in France. The answer: like everything else, it is changing...and it is remaining the same.
With so many good books about France and cuisine, I would put this one down low on my list. Try - Paris To The Moon by Adam Gopnick; French Impressions: The Adventures of an American Family by John Littell; or Ruth Reichl's Tender on The Bone, or just about anything by M.F.K. Fischer.
Beyond Foie Gras.......2001-02-21
I thought this book was excellent. I could not put it down. The author gives a realistic view of the present state of French cuisine. His background as a reporter shines through. His vast historical knowledge and penchant for facts and statistics gives the book credibility that many other food books do not really have.
His having captured the essence of French food and culture allows you to walk away with the feeling that while big fast food conglomerates have a growing presence, all hope is not lost. The conversations with everyone from Alain Ducasse to the captain of a fishing boat in Molene gives you pretty good idea of how the French feel about the unification of Europe, the laws coming from Brussels and about what lies in their future. He paints a picture of France beyond the tourist trap that is present day Paris and other excellent food beyond foie gras.
The author gives a very balanced view of the French. It is obvious that he is in love with France and all that goes with it but is not blind to it's faults. He often refers to the ego of the French and offers no apologies for many of his other criticisms.
What a disappointment!.......2001-01-19
I was ecstatic about receiving this book for Christmas, as it was heavily touted on the local NPR station and on this site. My enthusiasm was not rewarded.
Mort Rosenblum has been to lots of parts of France and, on the way, taken good notes. He also is convinced that his experiences point to the decline of 'the better days' in French cuisine, etc. and that you will care. What he doesn't do, however, is help you care by telling you what brings that decline about, how to regain this Eden, if it's inevitable, what the moral to his tale is, etc.. In short, the cause is a nice platform for him to try out his tedious and bombastic style while he tells you what it's like in France a la Rosenblum.
Cuisine is, of course, not dead in France, though the country continues to change in the face of an evolving Europe and modernity encroaches, as ever it has. Rosenblum tells you that, but without taking the next logical step: urging you to go see it. If you can't go to France to experience directly all that entails for the lover of food (which you should, with an open mind and gastronomical vigor), pick up a humble and compelling tale like M.F.K. Fischer's _Long Ago in France_. If you do, you'll spare yourself the patronizing ramblings of Rosenblum that often strain for creativity and languish until they pass into the bizarre, as in this analogy, "Still, if Roquefort is marbling its way into the United States, the way those blue pockets spread in wheels of cheese, there is still some way to go."
The only way you can like this book is if you don't have an affinity for food writing or France to be offended or if your generous nature overwhelms your critical mind. Mr. Rosenblum needs you to say, "ain't that man clever." If you can't, you'll not gain from his book.
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