Search Results for: london business school (3212 results found) Insider Insights: Top Target Schools For MBB Consulting Firms (NEWS) By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: February 22, 2022 Poets&Quants previously reported the staggering first-year salaries being reported by investment bankers working in the industry. Imagine starting compensation of $143,000 for a first-year analyst – up 14% in just five years. We also reported starting salaries for first-year consultants that, while not as high, were nothing to sneeze at – around $75,000 with a… Celebrating International Women’s Day: Meet The B-School Female Founders (NEWS) By: Catalina Vlad | Last Updated: March 10, 2022 Female-founded start-ups and female-led businesses are becoming more commonplace, though their numbers are still disproportionately low. According to Statista, only 20% of start-ups globally had at least one female founder at the start of 2022. But business schools around the world are playing their part to drive change, helping a growing generation of female graduates… Financial Times Online MBA Ranking Shrinks To Just 10 Schools (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: March 13, 2022 In what has to be one of the most incomplete rankings ever published by an authoritative source, the Financial Times today (March 14) released its 2022 ranking of the world's best online MBA programs. Well, sort of. The British newspaper ranked all of ten programs when there are well over 350 online MBA options available… B-Schools: Leading Or Struggling On Gender & Race Diversity? (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: March 22, 2022 2021 was the best year ever for women's enrollment in MBA programs in the United States. But that doesn't mean there isn't still a long way to go for women to achieve equality with men in graduate business education and the boardroom, in the U.S. and globally. Victories and setbacks seem to follow each other… Women’s History Month: 8 MBAs From Elite B-Schools On Why Representation Matters (NEWS) By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: March 25, 2022 According to some studies, 2021 was the best year yet for women and the MBA, with the highest-ever enrollments and an impressive bounce back from the declines spurred by the pandemic. But that good news comes with a big caveat: Women MBA candidates still lag behind their male counterparts by large margins. In November, the… Canada’s Ivey School Offers Ukrainian Students Free Access To Its MBA (NEWS) By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: July 13, 2023 Just 10 hours before Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Ivey Business School professor Gerard Seijts was teaching a virtual session to executive students enrolled at the Lviv Business School of Ukrainian Catholic University. As he watched the invasion unfold half a world away, Seijts penned an email to Ivey faculty, challenging them… The Burton Bottom Line: Business Alphabet Soup — CSR, ESG, and SDGs (NEWS) By: Jasmine Burton | Last Updated: April 15, 2022 The global quest to pivot ‘simple’ growth to ‘betterment’ growth is manifested by an ever-increasing bowl of ‘alphabet soup’. In a world of acronyms and an encroaching metaverse reality, these might feel like random letters. However, they represent the sectors, metrics, and opportunities to drive sustained social and environmental impact to address some of the… MBA Handicapping: Applying To B-School From Big Energy (NEWS) By: Sandy Kreisberg & John A. Byrne | Last Updated: July 1, 2023 https://youtu.be/P5zKPc8Ff6g Giri is a well engineer at a Big Oil company who hopes to use an MBA to pivot to a corporate strategy or consulting role. This 25-year-old professional is in a deeply technical role and would prefer to land a job that gives him hands-on experience in corporate strategy, P&L management, and budgeting. He… Chicago Booth Opens New London Campus (NEWS) By: P&Q Staff | Last Updated: August 2, 2023 The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business has opened the doors to its new campus at One Bartholomew Close, near to St Paul’s in central London. The grand opening March 28 brought together faculty, alumni, and business leaders for an evening of speeches and panel discussion to celebrate the school’s commitment to global leadership… 2022 Best & Brightest MBA: Emma Sussex, IESE Business School (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: May 1, 2022 Emma Sussex IESE Business School “Thoughtful, curious, driven, and always first on the dance floor.” Hometown: That’s actually a tough question! I was born in Hong Kong, grew up predominately in California (and a lot of other places), but am actually British. Fun fact about yourself: I convinced my mom to put me into clown… 2022 Best & Brightest MBA: Pamela London Fox, University of Minnesota (Carlson) (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: May 1, 2022 Pamela London Fox University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management “Athlete-turned-journalist-turned-marketer, runs on coffee, would rather be in Canada, my friends call me Professor Pam.” Hometown: Shoreline, WA Fun fact about yourself: I am a dual Canadian-American citizen and hope to live and work in Canada someday! Undergraduate School and Degree: Whitman College, B.A., History… 2022 Best & Brightest MBA: London Swift, UC-Berkeley (Haas) (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: May 1, 2022 London Swift University of California-Berkeley, Haas School of Business “I am a queer, Latinx woman. I am an organizer, a community builder, and an advocate.” Hometown: It’s so difficult to pick just one! I spent a third of my life in Oakland, CA, Corvallis, OR, and Washington, DC. I love them all. Fun fact about… 2022 Best & Brightest MBA: Nupur Gadkari, Warwick Business School (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: May 1, 2022 Nupur Gadkari Warwick Business School “Author, Artist, Marketer, Baker. Motto: ‘Challenge Accepted’. Always ‘all-in’.” Hometown: Mumbai, India Fun fact about yourself: Recently, I published my first book of poems ‘Verses & Sonnets - Freshly Brewed’ which was an acclaimed International Best Seller. Undergraduate School and Degree: Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) - University of Mumbai… 2022 Best & Brightest MBA: Katharina Klohe, IESE Business School (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: May 1, 2022 Katharina Klohe IESE Business School “Endlessly curious, I love to learn alongside a great team, with a focus on impact.” Hometown: Darmstadt, Germany Fun fact about yourself: I dance tango and am obsessed with Argentina (without ever having been to the country!) Undergraduate School and Degree: BSc (Hons) Psychology, Bath University, UK MA International Studies… 2022 Best & Brightest MBA: Malcolm Leverett, Wharton School (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: May 1, 2022 Malcolm Leverett Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania “Empathetic leader who focuses on building connection and developing deep subject matter expertise.” Hometown: Southfield, Michigan Fun fact about yourself: My twin brother, Matthew, and I were television commercial models growing up! (Sorry, I know that’s sort of two fun facts!) Undergraduate School and Degree: Dartmouth… Meet the MBA Class of 2022: Melisa Abimbola, Warwick Business School (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: May 4, 2022 Melisa Abimbola Warwick Business School “Driven to make a change in the new more socially and sustainably conscious world.” Hometown: Camden, London, UK Fun Fact About Yourself: I have written music with artists from very diverse musical genres, from Akon to Roger Sanchez, with the coolest session with Rock music superstar Melissa Etheridge. Undergraduate School… Meet Warwick Business School’s MBA Class Of 2022 (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: May 4, 2022 Empathetic and flexible. Resourceful and decisive. Consistent and diplomatic. Clear and inspirational. Those are several qualities associated with the best leaders. For many, leadership comes down to communication: personifying the values and conveying the vision that bands an organization together. To do that, most leaders have first taken a journey inward. In a word, they… We Asked MBAs How They Got Into Top Schools. Here’s What They Told Us (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: May 9, 2022 We asked this year's crop of MBA graduates what gave them an edge in gaining their acceptance into a top business school. We posed this question not to just any MBA graduate but to the grads singled out by their schools as the best of the bunch. Their insights provide invaluable context into what it… Poets&Quants’ Best 40-Under-40 Business School Professors Of 2022 (NEWS) By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: September 14, 2023 Lior Zalmanson, 38, describes himself as an “academia geek” from a very young age. Beginning his freshman year in high school, he started ordering university catalogs, dreaming about the courses he would take and mapping out his eventual major. “I believed that lifelong learning is a noble pursuit,” he tells Poets&Quants. He did not, however,… 2022 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors: Georgios Batsakis, Alba Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece (NEWS) By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: September 14, 2023 Georgios Batsakis Alba Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece "From the perspective of an Alba MBA alumnus, I nominate Professor Batsakis because his entrepreneurship course was one of the most influential courses in my academic and professional careers. The course has given me unique perspectives on the business world, showing me how it… 2022 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors: Nur Sunar, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School (NEWS) By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: September 14, 2023 Nur Sunar UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School "She made a lasting impact on our class by teaching core Operations in a way that was understandable, relatable, and actionable. Her relentless optimism left no student behind, and she broke down case studies to ensue future leaders understand how to improve processes in ways that benefit all stakeholders.… 2022 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors: Cécile Emery, University of Exeter Business School (NEWS) By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: September 14, 2023 Cécile Emery University of Exeter Business School "Cécile’s teaching left a lasting impression on me during the Exeter MBA. She managed to weave in her research on networks while maintaining a light hearted atmosphere which was was essential for inviting contributions. She partnered with other professors which helped us to identify different perspectives, in turn… 2022 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors: Blaine Landis, University College London, UCL School of Management (NEWS) By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: September 14, 2023 Blaine Landis University College London, UCL School of Management "An outstanding scholar whose research has changed our understanding of how social networks facilitate people's careers. His co-authored meta-analysis published in 2015 showed that it was the size of the network rather than the spanning across gaps in the network that helped people get ahead. And,… 2022 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors: Prasad Vana, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth (NEWS) By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: September 14, 2023 Prasad Vana Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth "Prasad's research is rigorous, as proven by his publications in the most impactful and prestigious journals in the field of quantitative marketing. His research has recently headed in a very exciting direction with topics such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. He collaborates with computer science faculty… 2022 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors: Yiting Deng, University College London, UCL School of Management (NEWS) By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: September 14, 2023 Yiting Deng University College London UCL School of Management "Dr Deng is an extremely conscientious and talented teacher who not only takes time to establish solid frameworks in the minds of her students but challenges us to improve academically, technically, and professionally each and every day. She is not afraid to link novel and… 2022 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors: Simon Porcher, IAE Paris Sorbonne Business School (NEWS) By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: September 14, 2023 Simon Porcher IAE Paris Sorbonne Business School "Simon was a great young scholar. He was always available for his students and at the same time really made the classroom very challenging! He was teaching data analytics for marketing and spent much time with us on building experiments so that we can get genuine data for… Top Tips For Creating A List Of Target Business Schools (NEWS) By: Caroline Diarte Edwards, Director of Fortuna Admissions | Last Updated: January 28, 2025 Honing your target list of MBA programs demands self-awareness and introspection from the outset — a practice that continues throughout the application process. It also takes smart strategy. To make the most of your time and energy (not to mention money), your shortlist should be reflective of your priorities, personality, and ambitions. First, a caution:…