Fortune: “Taking the GMAT can be one of the most dreaded parts of one’s journey of applying to a top MBA program.

The exam costs nearly $300 and takes over two hours to complete—not to mention months of studying and preparation. Of the nearly 600,000 individuals who have taken the most recent GMAT edition, the average student only scores around 550 out of 805. For context, the median score for fall 2023 entrants to schools on Fortune’s MBA ranking was 665.

Only a few dozen test takers have ever scored a perfect score.

But Julia Shackelford is one of them.

“It was very surreal,” Shackelford tells Fortune of when she first saw their 805 score. Their initial thought was it had to be an error. However, Shackelford had just spent 10 arduous months preparing for the graduate business admissions exam—and it had paid off.

To learn how Shackelford pulled it off, click here.

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Top 50 Bestselling Case Authors 2023/24

Case Centre: “The 2023/24 list has its share of established authors as well as nine fresh new faces.

ICFAI Business School features prominently with six authors holding top ten spots, and eight authors in the list overall.

Among these, our highest new entry goes to Vinod Babu Koti of ICFAI Business School (IBS) who comes in at number seven. You might recognise Vinod from The Case Centre Awards in 2020 where his case, Big Data Strategy of Procter & Gamble: Turning Big Data into Big Value, won the Knowledge, Information and Communication Systems Management category.

The list also extends a warm welcome to L Felipe Monteiro of INSEAD; Manish Agarwal of IBS; Frank T Rothaermel of Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology; Aneeta Rattan of London Business School; Martin Kupp of ESCP Business School; Kannan Ramaswamy of Thunderbird School of Global Management; Geoffrey G Jones of Harvard Business School; and Garrett van Ryzin of Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.”

To see the full list, click here.

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Purdue Daniels School of Business To Expand

West Lafayette, IN: “The Daniels School of Business plans to start a multi-structure demolition project to clear room for its third, and largest building.

The upcoming demolition of the Krannert Center of Executive Education and Research, Wesley Foundation Building and the Graduate House Parking Garage will make way for a third building for the business school.

The business school will soon start construction of its newest, unnamed building that will sit alongside the Krannert Building and Rawls Hall.”

To read more, click here.

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