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BusinessWeek: International Students Struggle to Turn MBAs Into U.S. Jobs

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By Julian Sparks July 24, 2014 Students from abroad who study at U.S. business schools often struggle when it’s time to land a job. Increasingly, B-schools set aside resources to help this group overcome a pair of career obstacles: the difficulty of getting legal permission to work in the U.S. and cultural differences that can make navigating …

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Businessweek: Why American B-School Students Can't Stand Teamwork

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By Cory Weinberg  June 06, 2014  (Corrects spelling of Darden faculty member’s name in fifth and sixth paragraphs.) When business students are instructed to comb through case studies or pitch new product designs, three dreaded words often follow: “Work in teams.” That dread is especially deep for American MBA students, according to a Graduate Management Admission Council …

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The Freedom of Personal Accountability

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Life is shared, whether at work or at home. Nothing can be done independently of others or our surroundings. So in this interconnected living, it’s plausible to put responsibilities on others when things get tough. At some point, things always get tough. Sometimes it’s the other person. Sometimes it’s shared. Sometimes it’s really ours to own. Question is, do we discern? Do we take the time to be present with what’s going on so we can process what happened and understand our emotional response to the situation? If you stay present to a situation, you will realize that taking responsibility is always an emotional choice.

NPR: Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning

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by ALIX SPIEGEL November 12, 2012  In 1979, when Jim Stigler was still a graduate student at the University of Michigan, he went to Japan to research teaching methods and found himself sitting in the back row of a crowded fourth-grade math class. “The teacher was trying to teach the class how to draw three-dimensional cubes …

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The Chronicle of Higher Education: Retention Is a Growing Issue as More International Students Come to US

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By Karin Fischer  MAY 28, 2014  Matt Dilyard, College of WoosterAn international student at the College of Wooster presents his independent-study project to fellow students. The Ohio college will begin offering a course this fall to new international students to help them adjust academically and culturally to American higher education. San Diego Like many American …

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When the Shoe Doesn't Fit…

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My children happened upon the cartoon Cinderella last week. My mother and I were commenting about how darling it was…until the shoe fitting part. You know, the part where Cinderella’s foot glides into the shoe held by the prince. We women, who grew up in the US, have always celebrated Cinderella because she was the one chosen by the prince. We celebrated how she was saved by the “knight in shining armor”. As I watched that ending, I became increasingly perplexed by this concept that so many of us have bought into — the concept that we are worthy if and when we fit into somebody else’s model.

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