Archive for February 21st, 2013

MBA Pay: European & Asian schools catch the U.S. …

February 21, 2013

According to research reported in BusinessWeek …

MBA grads pay at business schools in Europe and Asia increased dramatically in the past couple of years.

Adjusted for local purchasing power, European and Asian MBAs have essentially caught up to U.S. MBAs.

To avoid distortions between countries, the pay levels are stated in “international dollars” that have been adjusted for purchasing power parity.

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The researchers attributed the pay growth in Europe to the growing demand for MBAs in Europe and the geographic proximity of highly ranked European programs to the key labor markets they serve.

Why has MBA pay in the U.S. apparently stalled?

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Football, band, honors classes, hot lunches … and dead cows … say, what?

February 21, 2013

This is getting downright silly.

Sequestration will cut less than 3% of Federal spending … about the amount that was granted to Hurricane Sandy states in the whisk of a pen.

Still, President Obama had to broadcast dire consequences in front of a group of firemen … who will have to be laid off, probably causing small children to die in fires.

Give me a break.

We covered this topic earlier this week Football, band, honors classes and hot lunches … here we go again.

Apparently, the folks at Business Insider didn’t read the post.

Evidence?

An article titled “11 Ways The Sequestration Will Ravage The US Government“ … replete with an alarming picture of dead cows.

Technical note: It’s no clear o me how the sequestration will do the cows in.

Also, it’s not clear to me that the cows aren’t just taking a snooze.

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What are the 11 Ways The Sequestration Will Ravage The US Government? 

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