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The article offers a look at several schools that encourage students to tackle issues of race and identity both inside and outside the classroom. Such schools include the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business in South Africa, the Harvard Business School, and the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. Among the initiatives taken by the schools are requiring students to develop frameworks to manage racial discrimination and the diversity, equity, and inclusion program.

The article discusses the teachin approaches in business schools focusing on the use of telepresence allowing remote students and instructors to interact in real time. It mentions three business schools integrating telepresence technology to improve the global reach and interactive nature of online programs, which include the University of South Carolina's Darla Moore School of Business, Harvard Business School, and IE Business School in Madrid, Spain.

An interview with three educators regarding the purpose and mission of business education such as Roger Martin of the University of Toronto, Jeffrey Pfeffer of the Stanford Graduate School of Business in California, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter of Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts. Topics include the concerns face by business schools, marketing of business education, and the trends that might impact business education.

The article discusses the histories shared by several business schools which were the first member institutions of the Association of Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Topics include the persuasion of Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of the University of California, for the merchants, the land and securities donated by James C. Flood's daughter Cara Jana Flood to the University of California, and the establishment of the Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts in 1908.

The article offers news briefs related to the U.S. business education as of January 2013. Larry E. Penley has been appointed as chief academic officer at Thunderbird School of Global Management. Leonard Waverman has been appointed as dean at Canada's McMaster University. The Harvard University and Harvard Business School have received 40 million dollars of financial assistance.

In this article the author focuses on the importance of social media for business school to communicate with their students. It states various universities and colleges that are making use of social media channels like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn including Harvard Business School, University of Pennsylvania, and University of California, Berkeley.

The article offers information on how case studies might present challenges, but their benefits are too powerful to ignore. It is mentioned that Harvard Business School (HBS) has pioneered in cases in business schools, hypotheses testing, and improves the business management practices. The article adds that if the universities stop using case studies they can always for “library cases" written from public sources.

The article discusses the growing acceptance of educational crowdsourcing, which is an innovative method using peer-to-peer interaction over the internet to help students learn better. According to the author, the Harvard Business School (HBS) in Boston, Massachusetts, has adopted an online initiative called the HBX which allows students to learn business concepts through mutual interactions instead of relying on the traditional faculty lecture pattern.

The article offers business education-related news briefs in the U.S. The Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University revised its promotion and tenure system for the rewards of faculty performance. The tenure and promotion system at Harvard Business School, however, was designed around the idea of scholars, educators and practitioners. The Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver employs the Boyer model, which develops and maintains the balanced faculty portfolio.

The article reviews the website "Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge" located at hbswk.hbs.edu/classified/ from the Harvard Business School.

The article focuses on the changes in the application process related to Graduate Management Admission Test and essay writing portions in U.S. business school applications as of 2013. It informs that the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management will take the GMAT test for business students and Harvard Business School in Massachusetts has shortened the essay writing portions of their application. It mentions the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

The article reports that 35 researchers from Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts, and also form schools of design, divinity and public health of Harvard University, traveled to Allahabad, India, to study how a supply chain might operate in the religious festival Kumbh Mela.

In this article the author focuses on the role of massive open online courses (MOOCs). It states the creation of edX, an initiative that offers free online course, by Harvard Business School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It further discusses other MOOCs platforms including Class2Go and Coursera, founded by Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng.

The article offers the author's insights on various initiatives, following the accounting fraud at Enron Corp. and WorldCom Corp. The author says that Thunderbird School of Global Management students led an initiative to establish the equivalent of medicine's Hippocratic Oath for managers. It says that Harvard Business School students persuaded their class to join the Master in Business Administration (MBA) Oath movement. It also mentions the initiative of Kofi Annan of the United Nations.

The article offers news briefs related to technology in business schools in the U.S. Harvard Business School's Baker Library has received Mass Opinion Business Software as a gift from WiseWindow Inc. The School of Business Administration at Oakland University has opened its Security Network Instructional Lab. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has used the 2 million U.S. dollar grant from Stanton Foundation to create the OpenCourseWare (OCW) Scholar.

The article offers news briefs related to business education studies in 2009 in the U.S. Professor William Maddux's study suggested that living abroad could improve the creative ability of an individual. Another study that was published in Harvard Business School's newsletter "Working Knowledge," indicated that executive board members of World Bank channeled more funding to organizations in their home countries.