Roadside MBA has two new pieces on Monster.com's Resource Center. In "Visiting America's Small Business Innovators," Scott Schaefer gives an overview of the Roadside MBA project, and hits a couple of highlights from the road. In "Screen Candidates to Find the Elusive Needle in a Haystack," there's a short book excerpt about our visit to Southside Family Fun Center in St. Joseph, Missouri. … [Read more...]
Schaefer on the Admissions Straight Talk Podcast
Scott Schaefer recently joined Linda Abraham, founder of Accepted.com, to talk Roadside MBA on the Admissions Straight Talk Podcast. Have a listen as Scott discusses the Roadside MBA Manifesto, how the Roadside MBA project has changed his teaching, and what he wishes MBA students would come to campus knowing. … [Read more...]
Oyer in today’s New York Times
Paul Oyer was featured in today's New York Times Frequent Flier column, discussing the journeys that led to the Roadside MBA! Check it out here. … [Read more...]
Review: Success Magazine
Another review is out for Roadside MBA! Success Magazine writes: Roadside MBA combines humor with business theory and practice in a fresh, amusing way. You’ll be entertained and educated, ending up with a newfound admiration for the ingenuity of small-town businesses. Thanks to reviewer Margaret Jaworski. … [Read more...]
Schaefer on HBR.org: “It Depends”
Scott Schaefer's blog post on Roadside MBA ran on the Harvard Business Review web site last week. A small excerpt: What happens when you put three business professors in a rental car and send them out to talk to owners and managers of small- and medium-sized businesses? Would they discover their MBA frameworks to be a bunch of academic mumbo-jumbo with no real applicability? What we found is that there’s no best path to business success. Managers successfully address seemingly similar problems in very different ways and, as our corollary suggests, the trick is to find which solution fits … [Read more...]