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Making magic in Prague

Making magic in Prague

Open Business talked to OU MBA graduate Iztok Toplak about the alumni networking group he has established in Prague.

"The real magic comes from people meeting face-to-face," says Iztok Toplak when discussing the networking group he set up for alumni based in the Czech Republic. The group was formed in 2007 with the aim of, as Iztok explains, "maintaining contact between people of the same opinion". The idea came to him and a friend during a workshop in July on 'Applied Creativity in Business' at Adastra (an international specialist in data warehousing, data integration, and data analytics) in Prague.

Pursuing your MBA

This year, for the first time, the Economist Intelligence Unit has produced a ranking of the world’s top distance-learning MBA programmes. Ranking distance-learning programmes is not straightforward. Many of the quantitative data used to rank full-time MBA programmes are of little use when it comes to distance learning. Salary data, for example, are less important because many students do not use the distance-learning MBA as a career break—many will continue in their pre-MBA employment. Equally, networking does not play such a prominent role.

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(Economist Intelligence Unit, published 23 January 2008)

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