Altimeter - Networking to Help Your Career Soar

Hi everyone,

It's been a while since my last post. Here's my monthly newsletter on the MBA Central Premium Group I moderator on Xing. Please take a look;

If you find this group helpful, we encourage you to invite your friends.
http://www.xing.com/premiumgroup-6675.ec4b2e
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Welcome to those of you who have joined this group in 2007! As of today, we have 2522 members. This means that 501 new members joined this group since January 1st, the date I sent out the previous newsletter. Thanks everyone for the tremendous growth and for all of your contributions! Please continue to invite your friends to join this group.

Financial Times rankings of the global top 100 full time MBA programs

In case you have not seen this, the Financial Times came out with it’s rankings of the top 100 full time MBA programs in the world. Here is the URL:

http://rankings.ft.com/rankings/mba/rankings.html

Here are the top 20 programs for your viewing pleasure (school name, country, ranking):

University of Pennsylvania: Wharton U.S.A. 1
Columbia Business School U.S.A. 2
Stanford University GSB U.S.A. 3
Harvard Business School U.S.A. 3
London Business School U.K. 5
University of Chicago GSB U.S.A. 6
Insead France/ Singapore 7
New York University: Stern U.S.A. 8
Dartmouth College: Tuck U.S.A. 9
Yale School of Management U.S.A. 10
Ceibs China 11
Instituto de Empresa Spain 11
IMD Switzerland 13
MIT: Sloan U.S.A. 14
University of Cambridge: Judge U.K. 15
Iese Business School Spain 16
UCLA: Anderson U.S.A. 17
HEC Paris France 18
Northwestern University: Kellogg U.S.A. 19
University of Oxford: Saïd U.K. 19
University of Michigan: Ross U.S.A. 19

I’m happy to point out that my alma mater, UCLA Anderson School, came in at # 17.

Keith Ferrazzi’s Free Career / Life Goals Tool

One of the best books on how to network with people successfully is Keith Ferrazzi’s “Never Eat Alone”. I was introduced to Keith a while ago by a fellow UCLA MBA alumni, and I had an opportunity to have a quick conversation with Keith a couple of years ago. He recently launched a new website that offers a simple tool to help people reach their career / life goals. I did found it to be very helpful, so I would encourage all of you to try it:

http://www.keithferrazzi.com/s/?ref=1326

Here is the standard email invitation:

I just used a new tool on the website of Keith Ferrazzi, a bestselling author and expert on success and relationships.

It helped me write down
- 3 goals for my life
- 3 things I'm going to do in the next 60 days toward those goals
- 1 bad habit that's held me back in the past to focus on changing and
- 5 people to be my Dream Team of personal advisors to help me

I think it will be really helpful, so I thought you might want to try it, too.

And the best part is it doesn't cost anything.

Check it out at http://www.keithferrazzi.com/s/?ref=1326
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Looking for Co-Moderators for MBA Central Premium Group

As many of you may have been aware, I have not been that active as a moderator for the MBA Central Premium Group. I had the initial vision for creating this group and setting up the various forum topics, but I have not really “moderated” the forum discussion threads as most moderators would have. The main reason is that I have been very busy at work, and now am in the midst of looking for a new job.

So, I would like to find several co-moderators for this group. I was thinking of having at least three other moderators. One focused on the MBA programs in Europe, another focused on Asia Pacific, and the third for the rest of the world.

If you are interested in being a co-moderator, please send me an email to: joshli2@gmail.com, and tell me why you are interested, your MBA background and experiences, and what you would like to do as a moderator.

By the way, if you know of any companies looking for a VP of Operations or Professional Services, or a COO role at a small company, please let me know. Thanks!

Thanks everyone for being a part of the MBA Central Premium Group, and for your active participation and contribution to the group!

-Josh Li
joshli2@gmail.com
https://www.xing.com/profile/Joshua_Li
http://www.xing.com/premiumgroup-6675.ec4b2e/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuali
http://altimeter.blogspot.com/
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If you're a new member, I strongly encourage you to post a brief intro of yourself in the Group Member Introduction forum. (https://www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showforum&id=36025).

Also, if you did graduate from an MBA program, I would like to encourage you to put an entry in the MBA Alumni Database forum (https://www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showforum&id=41593), so that other members can contact you if they have any questions about applying to your school.

I highly encourage you all to link to each other. Please also invite me to link with you. My Xing profile is: https://www.xing.com/profile/Joshua_Li. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help you network with someone you are trying to reach.