An Exchange Student’s MBS Story
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R. Suraj, an exchange student from NUS Business School, wrote a very complimentary blog post about his exchange term at Melbourne Business School:
MBS was a great learning experience for me. I interacted with people from across the world and across age groups. Latin Americans to Europeans to Australians to Asians…
Glad you had a great time, Suraj. All the best with your MBA.
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UniMelb & MBS on iTunes U
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The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Business School’s podcasts are now available on iTunes University (link opens in iTunes).
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John Armstrong is MBS’ Philosopher-in-Residence
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Melbourne Business School recently appointed John Armstrong as our first ever Philosopher-in-Residence.
Though this news was covered in the press, I didn’t write about it here because I was really busy at the time and figured I’d mention it later. That later came about yesterday when The Guardian published an article about it. So let me do a quick recap of the news coverage that Armstrong and his appointment at MBS have received so far:
- Luke Slattery wrote an article called Thinker on the ‘Dark’ Side in The Australian’s Higher Education supplement.
- Ruth Williams, in The Age’s Business Day section, wrote an article called Where Philosophy Meets Business.
- The Financial Times’ Ruth Bradshaw wrote about it in an article called MBA Students Take Philosophy Lessons.
- Finally, The Gruardian’s David Cohen wrote an article called Wittgenstein and Market Forces.
Though Armstrong hasn’t started teaching his own courses yet he did guest lecture in our Business & Sustainable Development course which was both fun, as guest lectures always are, and eye-opening, if you hadn’t yet looked at consumption from that point of view before.
Now that I’ve graduated, however, I won’t be able to attend any of Armstrong’s courses. Fortunately, he has given talks to MBS alumni in the past and I hope he will do so in the future as well. Regardless, I wish him all the best and hope he makes the students graduating from MBS better thinkers, philosophers, and, ultimately, leaders.
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We’ve Been Cloned!
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Thanks to Joshua Gans, I have today learnt that MBS has been cloned by Richmonds University in Ontario, Canada. Well, at least according to Richmonds’ website.
They have the same students, the same building, the same tag line, even a Dean who’s lived the same life as ours has…you get the picture. Check out Gans’ post to see what I mean. Or, better yet, compare the two websites:
Oh, and if you have any doubts about who copied who, check out the URL of About Richmonds University section (and of some of the other pages as well) or, for example, the site’s Location page.
Like Gans said, I guess we’re good enough to be imitated :) Oh, and a special shout out to MBS’ ITS department for creating such an awesome site.
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2008 FT MBA Rankings: MBS Moves up to 75
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The Financial Times has released its annual MBA rankings for 2008 and MBS has moved up four places to #75. Even cooler is the fact that our employment figures are at 96% (i.e. 96% of our graduating class is employed within 3 months of graduating) and our research performance puts us at #49 in the world (Joshua Gans explains why that is so significant).
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MBS Network on Facebook
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For those of you who don’t already know, Melbourne Business School now has its own network on Facebook (finally!). As with other university networks there, you need an e-mail address from the institute’s Internet domain (in MBS’s case mbs.edu) in order to join.
Let the networking begin!
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