Here is a brief excerpt from an article by John A. Byrne and featured by LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here.
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You asked for it – oh, wait, you didn’t? Well, sometimes you don’t know what you want till you get it. And we think once you’ve seen this list of the 10 Best Undergrad Business Stories of 2014, you’ll realize you would have wanted it had you known we were going to provide it.
In this collection you’ll find plenty of information helpful for the business student and would-be business student, plus windows into the unique world of undergrad business education. And beyond the Top 10, we’ve provided links to another 10 Poets&Quants stories that made a splash this year – including advice from Oprah Winfrey to Stanford University business students.
[Here are the first four.]
1. The Wild and Witty Rants of "That Harvard Bitch"
Poets&Quants tracks down an elusive Harvard student whose informative and entertaining commentaries on student life have made her a YouTube sensation. Her video on “Harvard stereotypes” netted almost a quarter-million views, and her “How to get into Harvard” drew another 150,000. Click the link for the lowdown on the student’s schtick, and a sampling of her videos.
2. Starting Salaries Rise for Business Majors
The past year brought good news for business majors: a 3% rise in starting salaries, to $57,000. This article breaks down the starting pay for graduates with majors in the “business” category, from the lowest – Hospitality Services Management – to the highest – Logistics/Materials Management.
3. The Smartest Advice We Could Find for the Class of 2018
Personal transformation, in the intellectual, social, and personal realms, should be a primary goal for college students, said Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana, in his Sept. 1 Convocation address. Poets&Quants takes a close look at his comments, and includes a video of Khuran’s valuable speech.
4. Schools Boost Social Media Scrutiny
College admission officials don’t wait till Christmas to decide who’s been naughty and who’s been nice. And now record numbers of officials are scouring the social media profiles of applicants to learn more about them – and possibly uncover skeletons in the closet (or at least photos of drunken debauchery – example included in article).
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Here is a direct link to the complete article.
John A. Byrne is the chairman and CEO of C-Change Media Inc. Until recently, he was editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek.com and executive editor of BusinessWeek.