Duke’s Fuqua School of Business launches ‘big data’ degree for students

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Duke’s Fuqua School of Business launches ‘big data’ degree for students

5/18/16 The university’s Fuqua School of Business has added a 10-month program that will award a Master of Quantitative Management degree. The program is targeted to college graduates with strong quantitative skills but little to no work experience.

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Why business schools are tailoring leadership courses to NGOs’ needs

5/22/16 The management of a non-governmental organisation, no matter its size, is a “huge responsibility”, says Juan Carlos del Olmo, secretary-general of WWF Spain, the conservation NGO. “In an NGO, the mission and values are the main thing and we must show results not only for our ‘stakeholders’, but for society as a whole.”

It is this demand for results — felt keenly by charities, international agencies, governments and myriad other bodies — that is sharpening the focus of NGOs worldwide, prompting them to seek out the management and leadership expertise most commonly found in the world’s business schools.

Peter Cunningham, of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), a global hub for security and peacekeeping training, says that NGO concerns and needs are now well understood. However, problems are sometimes not resolved because of decision-making paralysis, so leaders want to learn how to influence others. The GCSP recently teamed up with the Center for Creative Leadership, an executive education non-profit, to bolster this kind of training.

Running an organisation where principles are paramount demands high levels of competence. Del Olmo, a former documentary film-maker who has had a life-long fascination with nature conservation, found he faced a daunting management challenge. He is in charge of an organisation with a small budget relative to its ambitions, a high public profile, many volunteers and activists and an evolving agenda.

To develop his skills, del Olmo turned to Spain’s Esade business school, which has an Institute for Social Innovation, headed by Professor Ignasi Carreras. Its aim is to collect, develop and transfer knowledge between companies, NGOs and social entrepreneurs to enhance the performance of each.

The school runs two executive education courses for NGO managers and organises annual gatherings of non-profit leaders. Del Olmo has already completed the school’s Direction and Management in NGOs programme and is now a participant on its Social Innovation and Leadership course.

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Discounting Grows Again

8/25/15 Private colleges and universities continue to raise their tuition discount rates, even as many institutions struggle with decreasing enrollment and declining revenue despite the practice.

A report from the National Association of College and University Business Officers released today reveals that tuition discount rates are at an all-time high and many institutions are using the strategy to a point that, according a top analyst at NACUBO, is “not sustainable.”

Private institutions commonly discount their tuition — using institutional aid (often derived from tuition revenue) to offer students a discount from the sticker price — in an effort to entice students to enroll.

On average, private colleges’ discount rate — institutional grant dollars as a percentage of gross tuition and fee revenue — reached 48 percent for freshmen in 2014, up from 46.4 percent the year before, according to the 2014 Tuition Discounting Study, which surveyed 411 private colleges and universities (public institutions were not included in the survey because their funding formulas and pricing structure are different than those at private institutions).

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University of Southern Indiana Launches Accelerated Online MBA

5/9/16 The University of Southern Indiana (USI) has launched an accelerated online Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree to help working adults gain essential business skills to boost their career. The degree from USI’s Romain College of Business is designed to make earning an MBA more accessible to residents of Indiana and surrounding states.

“USI has a tradition of making quality higher education accessible,” said Dr. Mohammed Khayum, dean of the Romain College of Business. “Our accelerated online MBA program offers highly interactive instruction and innovative approaches to problem solving that develop students’ abilities to think critically and creatively within the business world, thereby enhancing professional growth.”

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