Advice for Graduating MBA Students . . . .

If you are a newly-minted MBA graduate, you probably have already had some business experience and have had an opportunity to see the real world in action (for better or worse). Your decision to return to the academic world for awhile most likely resulted in either a first job disappointment crisis (see “The Doom Loop”) […]

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About Facing College – Preparation, Selection, Major, and Focus While In College

I have delivered high school graduation addresses from time to time, and give advice to students going to college. I’ll share this advice and welcome your comments. Perhaps many will not agree my advice– how to prepare for college, what college to select, what to choose as a major, or what should be the main […]

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What IS a “College Education?”

I am NOT saying that a college major represents a “college education.” It definitely does NOT. Personally, I believe that your major in college represents at most about 25% of your “college education.” In high school, you learned a lot of “whats” – primarily because those are the sorts of things that are found in […]

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Does a College Major REALLY Matter??

I’m really going to go out on a limb here and say . . . YES . . . and . . . NO. It is true that a college education will lead to greater earnings over the lifetime of a career. It is particularly true if that education includes science and technology. There is […]

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