‘Business’ Archives
M.B.A.s Seek Social Change »
Social entrepreneurship – that is, building a for-profit company with a social conscious or linked with a social cause – is becoming increasingly attractive to would-be business founders. The idea is to make money while either directly impacting consumers with its services or funneling a portion of profits to charities. Often, these companies [...]
How to Turn an Economics Degree into a Career You Love »
Profit potential. Professional diversity. Market crossover. These are the qualities of a degree worth pursuing--and the very qualities that economics majors are known for. This degree is much more than simple math. It's a unique fusion of science, finance, business, and high technology in a single, relevant curriculum. Not only is the content [...]
How To Become an Economist »
Economists study how society distributes resources, such as land, labor, raw materials, and machinery, to produce goods and services. They may conduct research, collect and analyze data, monitor economic trends, or develop forecasts. Economists research a wide variety of issues including energy costs, inflation, interest rates, exchange rates, [...]
Ready to Be the Boss? »
Becoming an entrepreneur seems to be in vogue in this downturn. A 2009 survey by FindLaw.com indicates that 61% of Americans have either started or thought about starting a small business. And according to the Small Business Administration, small businesses employ about half of all U.S. workers and have generated more than half of the net new jobs [...]
Training Without a Campus »
The pressure on corporate profits has left few cost areas on companies' budgets unscathed -- including executive education, the intensive training programs typically delivered by business schools to select executives and managers. Before budgets started tightening two years ago, companies were more willing to send star managers to one-off [...]
How To Become a Public Relations Manager »
An organizations reputation, profitability, and even its continued existence can depend on the degree to which its targeted publics support its goals and policies. Public relations managers—also referred to as communications specialists and media specialists, among other titles—serve as advocates for businesses, nonprofit associations, [...]
How to Become an Entrepreneur »
Entrepreneurs play a key role in any economy. These are the people who have the skills and initiative necessary to take good new ideas to market and make the right decisions to make the idea profitable. The reward for the risks taken is the potential economic profits the entrepreneur could earn.
Hate Your Boss? Five Careers to Help You Escape »
Are you fed up with your boss and ready to tell him or her to "take this job and shove it?" Join the club. Recent studies indicate that at least 60 percent of workers are unhappy with their current jobs. And according to the Well-Being Index created by Gallup and Healthways, Inc., people who are unhappy at work take more sick days than people who [...]
Investing in an MBA – The Financial Payoff »
I would say that about 25% of my college classmates and other people I know from my peer group have gone on to graduate school. And 85% of the people that went on to graduate school pursued or are pursuing MBAs. It’s pretty obvious why. MBA’s who graduated in 2006 are earning an average starting salary of about $92,360. This is an across the [...]
An Online MBA Degree, Two Years Later »
When it comes to career advancement, performance is only half the equation. The other half is education. But who has time to get a higher degree? Fortunately, self-paced online programs are helping more and more working adults build their credentials. One of those working professionals is Amye Cole, Senior Admissions Counselor at Sierra Nevada [...]
