ENG 5 Q4 WEEk 1 DAY 1 Restate sentences heard in one’s own words. Use appropr...
Mba Makes The Worl Flat - Professor Simon Benninga
1. BUSINESS SCHOOLS IN A
FLAT WORLD?
Simon Benninga
Dean, Recanati School
Tel Aviv University
benninga@post.tau.ac.il
2. Structure of talk
What’s happening in the MBA world
Registrations?
Where from?
New schools?
Rankings
Who’s taking the MBA—a view from
the field
What are we teaching in the MBA
What does an MBA actually provide?
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32. Number of Required Courses
MBA programs are heavily tilted towards technical/numerical skills
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33. MBA training is overwhelmingly
technical
Are we doing a good job?
Very personal
Some letters
My books
My impression:
Our technical training is not good enough
(see correspondence which follows)
B.S. is important, but ours focuses on
inspiration and slogans
Often too high-level, not enough middle-
level management preparation
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34. From: keith@clarityresearch.com
The Need: A reader writes
To: Simon Benninga
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: Re: PoF with Excel
Thanks, Simon.
I finished my studies many years ago, but my daughter (who
attends Kenan-Flagler at UNC-Chapel Hill) recommended your
quot;Financial Modelingquot; book.
While waiting for the book, I want to start with your web
materials. Currently I work for a real estate developer--my boss
and one of her partners are Wharton grads--and more and more
of my tasks entail using models built in Excel.
I expect that your book and materials will improve my
understanding of financial modeling. Additionally, I find it
interesting in itself.
Regards,
Keith
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35. From: quot;Deepak Moorjaniquot; <deepak@moorjani.com>
To: quot;Simon Benningaquot; <benninga@post.tau.ac.il>
Subject: Re: Username/Password
Date: Monday, September 27, 2004 1:01 AM
Hi Simon,
I studied at Duke University ('92) and went
to work on Wall Street in 1993. I'm in the Bay Area
in venture capital and feeling the need to refresh my
modeling skills.
I went to the Stanford bookstore yesterday and picked
up a copy of Financial Modeling. Very nicely done.
I was an economics and philosophy major in college
and would have saved myself much frustration in NYC
if I had this book. This is the first book
that I've seen that ties corporate finance
theory with practical application!
Best wishes,
Deepak
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Upstart Management, LLC
142 Sand Hill Circle
35
Menlo Park, CA 94025
36. Simply the best Intro to Finance book out
there, June 9, 2006
Reviewer:Practitioner (New York) –
With an undergraduate degree in economics and
two years of working experience in Wall St,
you can say that I had the chance to read quite
a few finance books. I find Principles of Finance
with Excel to be hands-down the best Intro-
Finance book of them all. Not only does it
explains the finance topics very clearly, it
teaches you how to apply this knowledge
in Excel. This is by far, in my opinion, the best
way to learn finance. Furthermore, since
solutions to the exercises are included on the
CD, this book is perfect to the self-motivated
reader. Lost or stolen, I would purchase this
book again.
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45. Henry Mintzberg
(McGill)
The Current Debate
Harry & Linda
Warren Bennis and
DeAngelo (USC) and
James O’Toole (USC),
Jerold Zimmerman
(Rochester) “How Business Schools
Lost Their Way”
“What’s Really Wrong
(Harvard Business
with U.S. Business
Review, 2005)
Schools”
(unpublished working
paper 2005)
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51. Comments invited!
Simon Benninga
Dean, Recanati School of Business
Tel Aviv University
benninga@post.tau.ac.il
http://finance.wharton.upenn.edu/~benninga
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