At this time of the year, you are bound to hear about someone who is getting their children ready to go back to school after a Summer break. This time of year may even bring back memories from your past when you were a teen and getting ready for school. Well I want to put a different thought in your mind. Maybe it’s time for business owners to go back to school.
What I mean by this is that business owners should build into the management of their company, time for them to continue honing their skills by attending training. It …read more

This week, Business Week released their annual Best Undergraduate Business Schools list, which was compiled by asking business majors to rank their schools in 12 different areas. The results were compiled to find out which schools are best in certain programs, and to some, the results have been surprising.
Top 10, Overall:

Virginia (McIntire)

Notre Dame (Mendoza)

Pennsylvania (Wharton)

Michigan (Ross)

Brigham Young (Marriott)
UC-Berkeley (Haas)
MIT (Sloan)
Cornell
Emory (Goizueta)
Texas (McCombs)

Individual Categories, Top Schools:

Accounting  – Boston College (Carroll)
Business Law – Nebraska
Calculus – MIT (Sloan)
Corporate Strategy – Richmond (Robins)
Ethics – Loyola
Financial Management – Richmond (Robins)
Marketing – Richmond (Robins
Microeconomics – Cornell
Operations Management – George Washington
Quantitative Methods – Richmond (Robins)
Sustainability – …read more

I am back from my trip to Ghana, West Africa. It was an incredible trip. My primary purpose for going was to evaluate an elementary school that is connected to my church. There are 213 children in the school and there are too many needs to mention. In the process of traveling to the school we had the opportunity to see the culture of the country of Ghana. Poverty is in your face from the moment you leave the airport.
I would say that making a buck is one of the most important things you see. People sell anything and everything. …read more