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Entrepreneurship Magazine, in conjunction with The Princeton Review, will be releasing its list of the top 25 graduate entrepreneurship programs in the country in their October issue, and Simmons College is on the list.  Simmons College is one of only two New England colleges listed.  View the full list here.

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This week’s issue of Businessweek is its annual focus on MBA Schools, and it has a fascinating article called “The Millennials Invade the B-Schools.” The opening paragraph sounds like it could be one of our students:
Sara Hochman, 27, has always been interested in environmental issues, so it wasn’t much of a surprise that her first [...]

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Because of our recent graduation ceremony at the SOM, I was determined to find something to post that was graduate-related today, and the Aspen Institute didn’t let me down. They recently published a survey, “Where Will They Lead?”, which gages current MBA student’s attitude on the intersection between business and society. You can [...]

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GMAT cheating scandal

It’s assumed that, for many–if not all–of the MBA prospects who prepped for their GMAT using ScoreTop, they were unknowingly cheating.  That’s because ScoreTop, and online GMAT tutorial tool, was using “live” answers–answers that were featured in recently-taken tests.  None of the reports I’ve read have shed light onto who was providing the live [...]

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I don’t know how I missed this one, but thanks to Megha Bhutani for keying me into Businessweek’s special report on “Graduating Into a Recession” from last week.  Topics include the job market outlook for recently-graduated MBA students, tips from students who have found jobs during a recession, and how a recession can actually help [...]

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Maybe Kermit the Frog was right–that sometimes, it isn’t easy being green.  But with the steady increase of journals and magazines that come across my desk, it looks like the green movement is taking hold and mainstream culture has begun to embrace it.  This week, Newsweek magazine highlighted the green movement in their special section [...]

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The Chronicle of Higher Education has an informative article in its most recent issue titled “Cost and Red Tape Hamper Colleges’ Efforts to Go Green”.  While at first blush it may seem wholly negative in its coverage, the article has information about the future of LEED Certification as well as academia’s current perspectives on the [...]

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