Smarter than your average MBA

If you're tired of all of those poorly-run online retailers, there may be hope on the horizon. Boding ill for business-bound Luddites, management schools across the nation are announcing programs to allow electronic commerce certification along with the standard MBA, Wired reports.

At Yale's School of Management, though, they are perfectly happy inegrating the technology into the old-school teaching. According to a School spokesperson, "At Yale SOM, Information Technology is already treated as central to the formulation of global business strategy and is woven into the very fabric of the school's two-year MBA curriculum."

Karin Nobile from SOM Media Relations points out that Bruce Buchanan, the C.W. Nichols Professor of Business Ethics at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at NYU has agreed to teach "Internet Marketing" as a Visiting Professor in the Fall. Additionally, in the March 23 issue of the International Herald-Tribue, William Goetzman, Director of the International Center for Finance at SOM, who teaches "Using Information Technology to Build Competitive Advantage," explains that his students are Internet-saavy, utilizing it on a regular basis.

—by Kushal Dave

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"What's up ITS?" asks Ravi Montenegro. ITS's exorbitantly high prices for long-distance phone calls leave many students gawking at their phone bills—but don't worry, there is a solution. Montenegro has found a plethora of phone cards, long-distance carriers, and other calling options—all of which cost a fraction of ITS's rates. Montenegro's compilation of phone cards includes rates as low as five cents a minute. For the real penny-pinchers out there, Ravi offers a tip: get a calling card with a large amount of free minutes, use up the free minutes, and then cancel. All in all, Montenegro has compiled an impressive list of money-saving options for Yalies that dread getting that phone bill from ITS.

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