Gaming courses raise the stakes
5th Sep 2005, 13:10 GMT
Forget banking, consultancy or telecoms. How about running a casino? In the age of corporate social responsibility and business ethics you might think this an unlikely destination for MBA graduates, but you'd be wrong. "A number of senior managers in the industry here in the United States are MBA graduates", says Professor Bill Eadington of the University of Nevada. "If I tell you that the chairman of the board at one of the two biggest gaming companies in the US is a former Harvard Business School professor, brought in to advise the company, it will give you some idea of how important this industry is."