Discusses criticism asserting that when business schools and professors "cozy up" to corporations for money and real-word experience, students learn that ethics do not count. (EV)

Describes how a growing number of top business schools, after years of trying to outdo one another, are joining forces in various academic programs. An example is the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, which has created a West-coast campus and partnership with INSEAD in France. Discusses how such partnerships present special problems.…

Explores how the collapse of dot-coms has produced an increase in applications to business schools. Students previously interested in start-up companies, along with recruiters previously interested in young, non-traditionally educated employees, are rethinking the value of a business degree. (EV)

Discusses how business schools, expanding their course offerings to meet student demands, are engaged in a bidding war to employ the few new Ph.D.s in the field. (EV)

Describes how, for online Master's of Business Administration programs, enrollments are low and business deals are falling through. Despite initial hype, expectations are now lower in the face of economic uncertainty; programs partnering with businesses and school-run programs both face challenges. (EV)

Describes how the competition for top students for business and law schools has become so fierce that recruiters are perfecting the "hard sell." (EV)

Describes how many colleges are constructing new business school facilities to lure students and financial support. (EV)

Describes how several business schools, fed up with students' Internet use during class time, are taking steps to force them to log off. Money spent wiring classrooms for Internet access and laptop use has encouraged distraction among students and the use of "kill switches" by professors. (EV)

Increasingly, professional schools are addressing the issue of whether a financially successful program has a responsibility to support other, less financially successful programs, and how university fund raisers can assure donors that their gifts will benefit specific programs and not be siphoned into others. Law and business schools, often…

Across the country, students are flocking to graduate business schools that teach them how to start and run a business. About 400 schools now offer courses in entrepreneurship, and about 125 have organized entrepreneurship programs. Faculty being recruited for the programs have practical experience, but tend not to have doctorates. Many students…

Many business schools are including environmental issues in their curricula and offering elective courses on the environment. The trend is spurred by increasingly strong, complex environmental laws and public concern. However, the United States lags behind other countries in linking environment and economic systems. (MSE)

Business schools across the country are specializing in electronic commerce, in which teams of students create online businesses available on the Internet only to participating institutions. The courses offer students an opportunity to see how an online retailing business is conducted, including creating and maintaining Web sites, advertising…

The Management Education Alliance, a group of 15 business schools, including 11 predominantly minority schools, and 11 corporations was formed in 1994 to help minority schools identify and develop a specialty. It offers participation in faculty-development seminars, helps forge ties with the business community, and offers opportunities for…

Rapid changes in the health care industry have forced physicians and nurses into specialized graduate programs in business administration. At the same time, business administration students are attracted to the programs by job prospects for knowledgeable graduates. For business schools competing for the best students, such a program can set the…

Internet-based master's programs in business administration (M.B.A.s) serve a market that could bring significant revenues to business schools, providing new access to mid- to upper-level managers who want degrees to advance their careers but who cannot take time from work, or to young executives whose bosses offer to pay for the degree but not…