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"Attending a top-tier business school is-you guessed it-an expensive proposition. Take Harvard Business School: The M.B.A. class of 2013 student budget hovers around $84,000 for tuition, living expenses, travel, and other ancillary costs. Once you tack on the opportunity cost of two years of forgone salary, it's easy to see why, as Poets & Quants points out, six-figure debt is commonplace for most graduating M.B.A.'s."

"IN LATE 1965, President Lyndon Johnson stood in the modest gymnasium of what had once been the tiny teaching college he attended in Texas and announced a programme to promote education. It was an initiative that exemplified the "Great Society" agenda of his administration: social advancement financed by a little hard cash, lots of leverage and potentially vast implicit government commitments. Those commitments are now coming due."

MBA programs and MBA students are likely to be affected when the bubble burst.

"Innovators aren't exceptional as much as they are confident. So says David Kelley, the founder of the venerable Palo Alto, Calif., design firm IDEO. 2011 Winners Gold: Cellular Dynamics International Makes Heart Cells-Billions of Them Silver: Joule Unlimited Forges a Faster Path to Biofuels Bronze: IBM's Watson Adds Innovation Award to Quiz-Show Win And the Rest of the Winners Are... More in Technology Innovation Awards How to Innovate More? Past Winners: Where Are They Now? Read the complete report . Mr. Kelley, whose company is responsible for designing a wide range of products and services, including the modern computer mouse, believes-and research suggests-that virtually everyone has the capacity to innovate. It's just that somewhere around the fourth grade most of us stop thinking of ourselves as creative, he says, so our ability to innovate atrophies."

"Nearly 100 innovative entrepreneurs and executives were interviewed by Jeff Dyer, a business-school professor at Brigham Young University, Hal Gregersen, a leadership professor at the business school INSEAD, and Clayton M. Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor, to see what makes them tick. The professors' conclusion: In order to "think different," you have to act different."

The web site, "Study Skills Tip Sheets & Advice" is directed toward undergraduate students. However, there are some take home points for MBA students.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and KINSALE, Ireland, Nov. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The O'Sullivan Foundation today announced a grant of $5 million to the Khan Academy to accelerate the development and deployment of the non-profit's revolutionary approach to education, which has already been adopted by forward-thinking public and private schools throughout California and the United States. Khan Academy, which began as one man's effort to tutor his young cousin in math over the Internet via YouTube, has rapidly grown into a mass movement which is used by millions of students monthly, in a range of subjects from math and science to the humanities.

This site may be helpful for MBA students that need focused remedial training in math etc.

The majority of communication is non-verbal. But how do you make sure your workplace body language is correct? How important is body language? "We're very influenced by non-verbal communication," says Joe Navarro, author of What Every Body is Saying: An ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-reading People. If you look at presidential debates, the body language of the candidates is often what people recall most. "They remember their mannerisms and how they looked. In the workplace a lack of social intelligence is what keeps a lot of people from climbing the ladder," he says. Elizabeth Kuhnke, an executive coach and body language expert, says: "It is a very important part of relationship building. Establish that rapport and people will follow your lead; you control the emotional agenda."

"If you've applied for a job recently, you've probably looked over that 8½ x 11" summary of your career more times than you can count-and tweaked it just as often-in pursuit of the perfect resume. But before you add another bullet point, consider this: It's not always about what you add in-the best changes you can make may lie in what you take out. The average resume is chock-full of sorely outdated, essentially meaningless phrases that take up valuable space on the page. Eliminate them, and you'll come off as a better, more substantial candidate-and your resume won't smack of that same generic, mind-numbing quality found on everyone else's. Every word-yes, every word-on that page should be working hard to highlight your talents and skills. If it's not, it shouldn't be on there. So grab a red pen, and banish these words from your resume for good."

This article may be of interest to MBA students.