CSUMB MBA Blog

Is an MBA worth it? That’s a fair question to ask yourself and an incredibly important one. Not only do Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs not have MBAs, they dropped out of college before they could earn bachelor’s degrees.¹ Elon Musk has several degrees, but none of them is an MBA. In...

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Money.com released its Most Transformative Colleges list with California State University, Monterey Bay ranking #16.¹ The list ranks institutions based on their “value add” scores. According to Money.com, they’re not surprised when elite schools report high graduation rates or alumni success and...

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Imagine This

Things can get complicated incredibly quickly when you’re leading a group, and this is the crux of decision-making strategies in business. Decision-making strategies are the methods by which we use information to make a choice, and they can apply from everything from choosing next s...

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If you've been in the working world for a while, you likely feel confident that you know how to dress for business environments. And if you're a student on the verge of graduation and your first full-time office job, you have probably been given advice on how to prepare and what to wear from the e...

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What is WASC?

If you’ve been browsing MBA programs on the west coast, you may have noticed that some of the schools are “WASC accredited.” But what does WASC accredited mean, and why does it matter? WASC stands for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), and it was formed in 1962 t...

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