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Schools Help Students Explore Emerging Career Tracks
As evidence of the rich array of career options open to alumni of graduate management education—and of the ways business permeates all fields—two business schools recently helped students explore nontraditional business markets.
The Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College hosted its first Media & Entertainment Symposium last month, offering students the chance to explore the rapidly changing landscape of entertainment and the monetization of artistic content. Contributors included artists, producers, investors, executives, and entrepreneurs. Recognizing that many of today’s students are broadening their vision to consider career paths they once may have overlooked, Tuck plans to make the entertainment symposium an annual event.
From Pac-Man and Pokémon to Halo and Grand Theft Auto, the business of gaming has exploded. Exploring this burgeoning field, MIT Sloan School of Management held its inaugural Business in Gaming Conference on May 8. Industry leaders, game developers, academics, and students from leading MBA schools came to Sloan to discuss digital distribution, marketing, and in-game advertising, among other business elements of the gaming phenomenon.
GMAC Partner Update: Golden Key International Honour Society
GMAC is hosting a graduate management admissions panel at the 2009 Golden Key International Conference. The meeting takes place July 30-August 2, 2009, in Orlando, Florida.
A GMAC alliance organization, the Golden Key International Honour Society recognizes and encourages scholastic achievement and excellence among college and university students from all academic disciplines. Society members are eligible for scholarships and awards and can connect with exclusive career opportunities and assistance through the society’s partnerships with major corporations and graduate programs.
Golden Key is looking to expand its connections with graduate schools of business. “We are looking currently for strategic partners that are going to help us improve benefits for our students and also improve our relationships—and their relationships—with the institutions that we serve,” said Clinton Lewis, development manager at Golden Key.
The Society has an on-campus presence at colleges and universities in seven countries: Australia, Canada, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and the United States, with more than 370 chapters worldwide. The Society serves students from more than 190 countries; 60 percent represent minority groups.
Rensselaer Poised to Re-engineer the Future of Finance
At a time when global financial systems seem to have gone haywire, the Lally School of Management & Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has come down firmly in favor of finance. On April 22, the school formally opened its new International Center for Financial Research, at the same time announcing a new master’s degree track in Financial Engineering and Risk Analytics. The master’s track is a collaboration between Lally’s finance faculty and departments across the university, including computer science, applied mathematics, decision sciences and engineering systems, and economics.
In a statement, the school said that it believes the time is right to rejuvenate interest and encourage investment in initiatives focused on rebuilding the financial industry and restoring confidence in the financial markets. “Our deliberate investment in finance … is a clear indication that we believe this school will contribute to the long-term viability of the emerging new financial order,” said David Gautschi, dean of the Lally School.
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