Cracking the rankings Part (ii): Understanding the Financial Times European Business Schools rankings
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Cracking the rankings Part (i): Understanding the Financial Times MBA rankings
League tables are of great interest to universities. This is particularly true for business schools, for which the Financial Times (FT) produces a suite of rankings of programme areas on a rolling annual cycle. Despite publication by the FT of most of the inputs and outlines of the methodologies, these are often little used by business school managers or researchers. This is the first of a pair...
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عنوان ژورنال: OR Insight
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1759-0477
DOI: 10.1057/ori.2011.22