People walk through the ION shopping centre in Orchard Road in central Singapore May 7, 2011. Some retailers said that business was slower than usual on Saturday as Singaporeans were going to the polls to vote in the country's general election. ©Reuters Feature of the Week 12:01am

Shopping for digital data in Singapore

With financial aid from the government, the region is now a hub for academic and corporate consumer research

Columnists

Simon Caulkin ©Ed Robinson
It is time we revisited the idea of management that is informed by the humanities
– Simon Caulkin
Top US schools are reluctant to embrace one-year MBAs
– Della Bradshaw
FT columnist Lucy Kellaway turns business school agony aunt
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Business schools’ big data revolution

Analytics is the new buzzword in the MBA curriculum as professors focus on big data

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Business schools should embrace big data

In future, analytics will be a powerful tool in education

Steven Haberman, dean of Cass Business School at City University in London Meet the Deans Feb 7, 2013

Steven Haberman, Cass Business School

The new dean intends to make the City-based school about more than just finance

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Term of the day: ‘ring fence’

Removing a set of assets from one set of accounts and considering it separately. This could be to avoid tax or to save a bank from collapse...

Nitin Nohria ©Todd Gieg Jan 27, 2013

Harvard tops the FT 2013 MBA rankings

HBS ousts Stanford to take the top slot as US schools dominate the tables

Judgment Call Feb 5, 2013

Is getting an MBA worth it without a huge salary boost?

The substantial rise in fees adds to questions about the point in pursuing a degree

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Use what you have learnt to help children

Work with the Global Fund for Children in the FT’s second annual MBA Challenge

News from campus

Focus on Research Feb 7, 2013

The unexpected cost of going public

Technology companies can find that in the years following an IPO they lose their innovative edge

BUSINESS SCHOOL NEWS Feb 7, 2013

Rivals bury their differences to promote Canadian MBAs

Six of Canada’s top business schools have formed an alliance to jointly promote their degrees