P&Q’s Must Reads: The World’s Best MBA Programs For Entrepreneurship In 2023

Hello everyone  –- Welcome back to Poets&Quants’ Must Reads, a quick, digestible recap of the top business school news, sponsored by CentreCourt, P&Q’s virtual admission events.

I’m your host, Kristy Bleizeffer, and I’ll be highlighting the most important P&Q stories you might have missed. So, let’s get to it. 

No. 1: The World’s Best MBA Programs For Entrepreneurship In 2023

Poets&Quants has ranked the world’s best MBA programs for entrepreneurship for the last four years, and in each of those years, one school has placed first: the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.

Once again in our 2023 list, the Olin School comes out on top.

Following WashU is the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and Spain’s Esade Business School. 

You can see the full list, and read about the methodology used in creating our list, now, on our homepage.

No. 2: Five Years & $150 Million Later, What A Mega-Business School Gift Can Do

When Larry Gies came home from work to tell his wife, Beth, that he was thinking of making a $150 million donation to the College of Business at the University of Illinois, she was not merely surprised but shocked.

“Do we have that much money?,” asked Beth.

Five years later to the day of the $150 million announcement, the second-largest single gift to a business school in history, Gies returned to campus to celebrate all that their pledge has helped to make possible. The list of achievements for what became the Gies College of Business is extraordinary by any standard.

Read about all those accomplishments now, on our trending tab.

 No. 3: ‘Russia Has No Chance Of Winning This War’: Zelenskyy Talks With Yale MBAs

On Friday (October 28), the Yale School of Management hosted a special live Q&A with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the school’s Zhang Auditorium. Via Zoom, Zelenskyy answered several direct questions of Yale MBA students and predicted, as he has done from the onset of the war, a Ukrainian victory. The event also featured comments from U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Lindsey Graham, and questions from CNBC Senior White House Correspondent Kayla Tausche. 

Poets&Quants was invited to sit in on the live, virtual event, and features extended excerpts from the 90-minute exchange, including a touching moment when a Ukrainian student got to talk to her president directly. 

“I just wanted first to say how truly proud I am that such a president represents the Ukrainian people. (You are the) president we deserve, and I think you are the president who deserves to represent us,” the student said. 

Read the full story now, on our homepage. 

No. 4: Our Weekly Round Up of  News You Can Use

No matter where you are in your MBA journey, we bring several helpful stories for you this week.

First up: Don’t miss our second annual $50,000 pitch competition with Washington University’s Olin Business School. The BIG IdeaBounce® is a pitch contest open to all current undergraduate and graduate school students or any prospect interested in a graduate business school degree. There are three rounds to the competition, starting with the submission of your idea in an easy-to-complete online form that is open through Jan. 15, 2023. Get full entry details, and more on that $50,000 prize, in our news tab.

Next: For those looking for the right programs, we have the latest employment reports from the class of 2022. This week, you can get the stats for Northwestern Kellogg, Georgia Tech, and Berkeley Haas. Find these and other recent jobs reports in our news tab.

Finally: If you’re quant minded, we’ve got the The Best B-School Options For Careers In Smart Analysis. Read how a master’s in quantitative management can set you up for a modern career in analytics. Find it in our specialized master’s hub in our main menu. 

And, that’s it for this week’s Must Reads recap. 

I also want to alert all the school seekers out there to CentreCourt’s upcoming MBA Festival events. For those interested in online MBAs, our next backstage event is November 15-16. Register now for free.

Again, I’m Kristy Bleizeffer, and you can join me next week, right here, for a recap of what’s important in the world of business education. Thanks for listening and, as always, stay informed!