{"id":430603,"date":"2010-03-15T10:09:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T14:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-worlds-best-business-schools-please-help-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-15T10:09:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T14:09:11","slug":"the-worlds-best-business-schools-last-chance-to-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/430603","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s Best Business Schools &#8212; Last Chance To Weigh In!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b87f0207f8b9a79778f0200-376-277\/mba-survey.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"MBA survey\" width=\"376\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 15px 15px 15px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ntweetmeme_source = 'warroom'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly';\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/tweetmeme.com\/i\/scripts\/button.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re finishing up our definitive list of the world&#8217;s top business schools.&nbsp; Now&#8217;s your last chance to weigh in.&nbsp; Speak now or hold your piece!&#8230;&nbsp; <\/em><\/strong><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the best business school in the world?<\/p>\n<p><em>BusinessWeek<\/em> says it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/bschools\/rankings\/\">University of Chicago<\/a>. <em>U.S. News<\/em> says it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/best-graduate-schools\/top-business-schools\/rankings\">Harvard<\/a>. <em>The Economist<\/em> says it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/business-finance\/business-education\/whichmba\/\">Spain&#8217;s IESE<\/a>.&nbsp; And so on.&nbsp; And, unfortunately, all these ranking lists are missing the point.<\/p>\n<p>When these publications develop their rankings, they mainly analyze curricula, &#8220;programs,&#8221; faculty commentary, and other info.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to assessing the value of a business school, however, there&#8217;s only one thing that really matters: The <em>amount the school will help your future career. <br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In other words, it&#8217;s not just about the quality of the professors. Or the &#8220;education.&#8221; Or the campus facilities (although it&#8217;s certainly nicer to spend two years in paradise than a dump).&nbsp; Or any of the other things business schools love to brag about.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about the <em>value of the school&#8217;s brand<\/em> and the <em>network of contacts you build while you&#8217;re there<\/em>.&nbsp; It&#8217;s also about how other people <em>perceive<\/em> the quality of the school.<\/p>\n<p>These two things&#8211;a credential that will cause prospective clients and colleagues to be impressed by you and a high-power social network&#8211;will help your career vastly more than any accounting course or case study.&nbsp; And they&#8217;re what you&#8217;re really buying when you elect to spend two years and up to ~$100,000 as a customer of a particular school.<\/p>\n<p>We think you deserve to know the value of what you&#8217;re buying!&nbsp; And, with your help, that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to tell you.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going talking to executives across a wide variety of industries to get a good sense of the <em>actual value<\/em> of particular schools as an asset to your future career.&nbsp; We&#8217;re also collecting and analyzing the results of the survey below.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s where we need your help.<\/p>\n<p>Please take 5 to 10 minutes to answer the questions below.&nbsp; In a couple of weeks, with your help and our own research, we&#8217;ll be able to reveal the definitive list of the World&#8217;s Best Business Schools.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"870\" height=\"5000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/business-insider-worlds-best-business-schools-2010\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-worlds-best-business-schools-please-help-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/04ET70bQDOJiEC7lGo0j53aWzVM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/04ET70bQDOJiEC7lGo0j53aWzVM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/04ET70bQDOJiEC7lGo0j53aWzVM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/04ET70bQDOJiEC7lGo0j53aWzVM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=_p_lTYTFk0k:Ep1pX3RrMg8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=_p_lTYTFk0k:Ep1pX3RrMg8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=_p_lTYTFk0k:Ep1pX3RrMg8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=_p_lTYTFk0k:Ep1pX3RrMg8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=_p_lTYTFk0k:Ep1pX3RrMg8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=_p_lTYTFk0k:Ep1pX3RrMg8:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=_p_lTYTFk0k:Ep1pX3RrMg8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=_p_lTYTFk0k:Ep1pX3RrMg8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/greensheet\/~4\/_p_lTYTFk0k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re finishing up our definitive list of the world&#8217;s top business schools.&nbsp; Now&#8217;s your last chance to weigh in.&nbsp; Speak now or hold your piece!&#8230;&nbsp; What&#8217;s the best business school in the world? 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The Economist says it&#8217;s Spain&#8217;s IESE.&nbsp; And so on.&nbsp; And, unfortunately, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5952,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}