Stu and Sherry are on the road this month at several academic conferences. If you plan to be at NBEA, IACBE, FBD, MEA, or AACBS please stop by and learn more about our 60+ modules covering marketing, finance, statistics, HR, accounting, strategy, operations, and business math. ...
Watch this wide-ranging interview with Jeff Maggioncalda, the CEO of Coursera where he touches on topics from edtech strategy to ChatGPT. ...
MBTN Academy is excited to offer badges to recognize the successful completion of our learning modules. Earning a badge requires a score of 100% on a module's problem sets, and demonstrates a mastery of a particular business skill....
September's free MBTN tutorial is on exchange rates and complements classes in pricing, international marketing, international business, finance, and strategy. We also include a link to an article by Uchenna Uzo at the Lagos Business School on how exchange rates (and inflation) affect pricing decisions in Nigeria....
One of the more popular free learning opportunities on Coursera is Raj Venkatesan's course on Marketing Analytics. Learn more about this course as well as MBTN's role in its original design and follow-on content in this blogpost....
Clip from a Fall 2021 MMA presentation by Stu James on how math anxiety affects learning goals and how MBTN's mastery-based learning system attempts to reduce anxiety leading to better learning outcomes - knowledge retention, topic coverage, more challenging content....
60 percent of employers indicated microcredentials would increase their confidence in a prospective employee’s skills, while 74 percent of working-age Canadians demonstrated interest in micro-credentials for either professional development, personal development or both. Learn more about this recent surge in microcredential interest as well as the five marketing metrics certifications offered by MBTN Academy....
Recently, we received this insightful description of how one student prepared to take the certification exam. And, she passed on her first try!...
Scott Galloway of NYU predicts a handful of elite cyborg monopolies will soon monopolize higher education. You didn't expect Galloway to show restraint, did you? Lots of thought provoking perspectives here....
Interesting article this morning in the NYTimes that highlights the challenges of keeping business education relevant in today's rapidly changing environment. Here's an excerpt, with a link to the full article that uses some examples from Cornell Tech's innovative program that brings M.B.A. candidates and graduate students in computer science together. Greg Pass, the former chief technology officer of Twitter, put the matter succinctly. The M.B.A., he observed, is “a challenged brand.” That’s because the degree suggests a person steeped in finance and corporate strategy rather than in the digital-age arts of speed and constant experimentation — and in skills like...