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The Wall Street Journal has several online spin-offs that are free.
You can even have them e-mailed to you.
Career Journal & College
Journal are a couple of them.
Here are a couple of direct links to articles that appeared recently that
may be of interest:
M.B.A. Recruiters Return To Campuses for More
Springing
back: In a good sign for the job market, a number of schools are holding new
or bigger career fairs.
Better
Training Through Gaming: Making Work More Like Play
Employee-education
programs could be more effective if they were more like computer games.
Shift in
Japan: Execs Who Have Earned MBAs
Trend
shift: Japanese firms have tended to value service in the trenches over
formal training. That practice may be changing.
Unlikely College Emerges As a Chess Powerhouse
Cuban
connection:
Miami
Dade
College
is excelling in the game's collegiate tournaments, stunning the Ivy League.
Using Graduate School To Start a Career Change
Office
to classroom: Career switchers fresh from campus can be attractive to
employers -- if they have the right focus.
From Forbes.com
(They have free newsletters too.)
Hitting
A Job Interview Home Run Stay focused and don't
talk yourself out of the job.
Scott Reeves
A
Resume That Gets You In The Door The straightforward approach is best, but
don't be bashful.
Scott Reeves
From Harvard Business School
(They have
Mapping Out Your Market Busters
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4734&t=strategy&nl=y
In pursuit of strategic growth, companies must figure
a path through or around obstacles. This excerpt from the book MarketBusters
describes a strategy for learning about what your customers really want.
The Age of Precision Markets
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4741&t=dispatch
The changes we are experiencing in business are as
profound as when markets first developed, says Jonathan Byrnes. Welcome
to the "Age of Precision Markets."
NEW
RESEARCH AT HBS
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/new-research.jhtml
A listing of the latest research papers, publications,
and cases written by Harvard Business School faculty.
Many more articles can be found at the Career
Focus site.
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All links worked at the time of publishing. Let me know if any of the
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