This study explores how the amount and the nature of learning accrued during an MBA – measured in terms of competency development – impact on career advancement and compensation. Applying nonparametric statistical analysis on data from behavioral event interviews and survey questionnaires to...

Several studies have analysed the impact of competency-based methodologies on human resource management, with special emphasis on their applications to management education and development. As concerns management education, however, these studies have usually focused on one or few separate...

This paper studies to what extent the transfer of US managerial technologies to Europe after World War II contributed to closing the gap with US businesses. Between 1952 and 1958, the US government sponsored the Productivity Program, which promoted management training trips for European managers...