A prestigious global MBA from the comfort of your laptop

The following article was originally written by Matt Symonds and was published on the Globe and Mail on February 7, 2011. You can find an original copy of the article here.

Now it seems business schools are paying attention to their own lessons, as a number of prestigious ones are moving to deal with challenges posed by a new generation of innovators in their own backyard. And the location of this new battlefield? Online.

Once the poor relation of the campus-based equivalent, specialist online universities are one of the success stories of business education as more and more students choose to pursue a distance MBA from the comfort of their home, or the window seat of a plane. The University of Phoenix now boasts over 455,000 students around the globe, while home-grown options such as Athabasca University’s online Executive MBA are among the largest in the country.Until now, professionals in isolated parts of the country who still wanted to acquire an MBA of genuinely international stature, have faced a frustrating lack of choice. However, a new breed of MBA programs from prestigious business schools are now entering the market, applying stricter entrance criteria and using a blended methodology of face-to-face learning and online modules. They allow Canadian executives to study where they want, when they want, and to receive a degree of equal standing to the full-time variety. Continue reading »

Shell executive offers advice on managing a global business lifestyle during the Latin American Residency

Maarten van Hasselt, General Director of Shell Global Solution’s Latin American and Caribbean Operations, spoke to the OneMBA Class of 2006 during their global residency in Latin America.

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