Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
The West made great strides because of it’s institutions based on the six killer apps. Let’s enhance these here in the U.S. and around the world. Watch Niall Ferguson explain the 6 killer apps of prosperity… Transcript: Let’s talk about billions. Let’s talk about past and future billions. We know that about 106 billion people [...]
In this webisode: I discuss my experience in Brazil (Sao Paulo) and Chile (Santiago). We met with companies in various businesses, including: banking, financial, airline, consumer products, winery, copper mining, etc… Brazil is a BRIC with 200 million people and doing well because of major improvements in the political and legal system. The country risk has [...]
Welcome to the fourth webisode of the MBA Drive, watch and learn about my experience at NYU. In this webisode: Group Presentation for Economics, Statistics Exam (Regression and Multiple Regression). Starting two new classes: Global Economics and Foundamentals of Finance (the latter taught by ex-JP Morgan Investment Banker….
Welcome to the third webisode of the MBA Drive, watch and learn about my Executive MBA experience at NYU. In this webisode: Accounting Final (LIFO, FIFO, Bonds and more) & Battle of the Bands. There’s a little NYU Stern Executive MBA tradition, after class on Saturday in November there’s a pre-concert reception in Cantor (11th floor) [...]
Welcome to the second webisode of the MBA Drive, watch and learn about my experience at NYU. In this webisode: Big news, my second daughter was born. Accounting, Marketing and more.
Why is the Webisode called MBA Drive, watch and learn… In this webisode: info about the classes we’re taking, Sirius XM case study, Ethics, Marketing and more.
I was at NYU on Monday where Linkedin launched a new tool for college jobseekers called “Career Explorer.” The launch was sponsored by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the Big 4 accounting firm, PwC hires many college student and their involvement in this initiative was surely and attempt to stand out from the rest of the Big 4 competitors. [...]
A health care high school? Yes it exists in San Antonio Texas at Northside Health Careers High School. Each year the school accepts 250 students into the high school that is focused on health careers. As a kid a recall classmates going to Vo-Tech (vocational technical high school), a school that focused on preparing students [...]
Job market is tight, over the last two years college students have had found it much harder to land entry level jobs. With employers cutting back on college hiring, each open position has become more competitive. The temptation by jobseeker to take a shot gun approach is temping, but Wesley Thorne II, Asst. Director Career Services at Northwestern [...]
Employers added 162,000 jobs in March according to US DOL. This increase is the most since the recession began about three years ago. However analysts’ expected 190,000 jobs. The 162k total includes 48,000 temporary U.S. Census workers, but the 48K is less than expected. The National unemployment rate remained at 9.7 percent for the third [...]
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