Issue link: http://www.e-digitaleditions.com/i/90487
THE GMAT® REPORT Corporations Want Big Data Skills NEW PROGRAMS n The Chinese University of Hong Kong has announced a new double degree undergraduate program offered by CUHK's Busi- ness School and School of Jour- nalism and Communication. n Beginning in January, Utah State University in Logan will offer an MBA degree on-site at Brigham Young University-Idaho in Rexburg. Faculty members from USU's Jon M. Huntsman School of Business will teach the MBA courses on campus at BYU-Idaho. n The Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berke- ley, has launched a new MBA for Executives, which will enroll its first class in May 2013. Tailored to seasoned executives with about 12 years of experience, the 19-month program is anchored in a general management curriculum. n Ashridge Business School in the U.K. is launching a new course on business model innovation. The course will focus on five activities: changing operations, automating technology, choosing outsourcing partners, reorganizing the team, and securing revenue. n The Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester in New York is introducing three new programs: an MBA with a concen- tration in business analytics; a mas- ter's degree with a concentration in The GMAT® exam's new Integrated Reasoning section measures skills identifi ed by management program faculty as important for today's incoming students to have. These skills are also important to employers, who rank these IR skills as somewhat or very important for their 2012 new graduate business hires to have: 79% 20% INTEGRATE data from multiple sources to make sound judgments 71% 28% ORGANIZE data to see relationships to solve interrelated problems 69% 28% COMBINE and manipulate data to solve complex problems 66% Very Important Somewhat Important 30% SYNTHESIZE data presented in graphics, texts, and numbers Not very/not at all Important Source: Data based on responses from 636 global employers that plan to hire recent MBA or master's business graduates in 2012, GMAC Corporate Recruiters Survey. 3% 3% 1% 1% For nearly 60 years, the GMAT exam has been designed by business schools for business and management programs. Find out more about the GMAT exam with Integrated Reasoning at gmac.com/nextgen GMAC®, GMAT®, and Graduate Management Admission Council® are registered trademarks of the Graduate Management Admission Council in the United States and other countries. © 2012 Graduate Management Admission Council® (GMAC®). All rights reserved. The GMAC logo is a trademark and BizEd November/December 2012 15