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Meet The MBA Class of 2022: Pamela London, University of Minnesota (Carlson) (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: February 26, 2021

Pamela London 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 started downhill skiing when I was 3 years old (and cannot wait to learn to Nordic ski while in MN!). Undergraduate School and…

Meet The MBA Class of 2022: Deepi Agarwal, UC Davis Graduate School of Management (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: February 25, 2021

Deepi Agarwal UC Davis Graduate School of Management “Energetic and passionate marketing professional fond of technology.” Hometown: Greater Noida, India Fun Fact About Yourself: I enjoy traveling. I have been to nine countries so far. Undergraduate School and Major: Undergrad: Bachelor of Technology, Electronics & Communication, Amity University, India Graduate: Post Graduate Diploma in Management,…

Where The Rubber Meets The Road: Racial Justice & The B-School Curriculum (NEWS)

By: Jena Brooker | Last Updated: February 12, 2021

On a Monday in August last year, students in Paul Harper's Race and Business Ethics MBA class at the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business watched the Spike Lee film Bamboozled, a "critique of corporate America — but more importantly, a critique of how the Black image is used in popular culture,” Harper…

B-School Rankings Boycott Begins To Collapse For Financial Times (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 8, 2021

The M7 boycott of The Economist’s MBA ranking has failed to hold for the forthcoming list by the Financial Times which will unveil its new global ranking on Monday (Feb. 8). Many business schools which refused to cooperate with The Economist have played ball with the FT this year, including Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, Yale,…

Five European Business Schools To Watch In 2021 (NEWS)

By: Jeremy Hazlehurst | Last Updated: February 2, 2021

When stories of COVID-19 cases started to emerge in Europe early in 2020, everybody in business education braced themselves. It seemed that few organizations would be as badly impacts as business schools, with their lecture-rooms filled with students and faculty constantly jetting to and from all corners of the globe, and a business model focused…

100 MBA Interview Questions By School (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: February 3, 2021

February is here. Round 2 has passed. Now, MBA admissions teams gear up and get serious. It’s interview time for business school applicants. Call it a rite of passage. Some candidates will get lucky. They might just skate by walking through resumes and trotting out talking points. In most cases, interviews are a means to…

MBA Handicapping: Sales Guy, 31. Harvard Business School? Here’s How. (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: July 2, 2023

https://youtu.be/WpMtcxv6j8Y His target schools are Wharton, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, and Emory Goizueta. With a 720 GMAT and a 3.5 GPA in pharmacy, Adetayo Oluwasegun from Nigeria has worked in medical sales at two of the biggest brands in the business: Novartis and Bayer. This 31-year-old professional, who now works for a French pharma…

Harvard Business School R2 Invites Go Out Feb. 3 (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 28, 2021

For thousands of Harvard Business School hopefuls in what is expected to be a massive round two pike up of MBA applicants, D-Day has just been announced. The school will notify candidates on Wednesday, Feb. 3, whether they won an admissions interview, an outright rejection or places in limbo on a waitlist. Chad Losee, managing…

In A GMAT-Optional World, Average Scores Plummet At The Top 50 Schools (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: January 19, 2021

To anyone paying attention as MBA class profiles began to dribble out last fall, it was clear that average scores on the Graduate Management Admission Test were dropping. But not until all the top schools had released data from the coronavirus cohort of 2020 did we have a complete picture. Now we have it, and…

Coping With COVID In Europe’s Top B-Schools (NEWS)

By: P&Q Staff | Last Updated: January 18, 2021

Two months after starting an MBA at INSEAD in France, Aubrey Keller found himself in lockdown at the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau. “I did not expect Covid,” he recalls of those first weeks of the pandemic, “but neither did the world.” About the same time, Hanna-Lil Malone, a former accounts director at PR…

MBA Handicapping: Harvard Business School With A 670 GMAT? Here’s How! (NEWS)

By: Sandy Kreisberg & John A. Byrne | Last Updated: September 14, 2023

https://youtu.be/sZXPZSLM1U4 On the face of it, you wouldn't think an MBA candidate with a 670 GMAT and verbal-quant splits of 90/41 would have much of a chance at Harvard, MIT Sloan, or Chicago Booth, and perhaps only slightly better odds at London Business School, Carnegie Mellon Tepper or NYU Stern's Tech MBA. But then you…

MBA Stories: A School-By-School Collection For 2020 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: January 6, 2021

What a year! Last January, deans and employers alike were asking the same question: Is the full-time MBA dying? After all, applications had been down, thanks to a turbo-charged economy and a wave of new graduate degree options. Come summer, applications surged as prospective students sought shelter from a pandemic that wreaked havoc on retail,…

Deans From Top B-Schools Share 2021 Resolutions (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: January 14, 2021

Most of us use the occasion of a new year to resolve personal changes and improvements. Business school deans and others in graduate business education leadership tend to be more ambitious. Every December for the last few years, Poets&Quants has asked deans and others at the top B-schools around the world to share their plans…

MBA Pay & Profiles: 2020 School Employment & Class Reports (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: January 14, 2021

A revolving door. That’s one way to think of business schools. In May, graduates stream out across the globe to make their mark on McKinsey, Microsoft, or Morgan Stanley. Forget starting on the bottom and paying their dues. MBA hires are thrown into the fray – the high profile projects and big name clients –…

2020 Business School Rankings: The Complete Collection (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: January 14, 2021

Rankings are big business. They grab attention and generate page views.  Higher rankings turn deans into dignitaries and graduates into gurus. They make it easier for administrators to demand more resources and alumni to dig deeper into their pockets. What could possibly threaten this cash cow? Oh, how about a pandemic? WHAT ARE MBA PROGRAMS…

B-Schools (Try To) Predict What 2021 Will Look Like (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: January 14, 2021

It has become an annual tradition at Poets&Quants: Every December, we give the floor to the business schools we cover to offer their unvarnished expectations for the coming year. Strangely enough, last year no one accurately predicted what 2020 would look like. But that didn't stop schools from jumping at the chance to prognosticate once…

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HEC Paris Stays On Top In New Financial Times Euro B-School Ranking (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: December 8, 2020

After years as a bridesmaid, HEC Paris has been named the top business school in Europe for the second year in a row by The Financial Times. FT's annual ranking, which lists 90 schools this year (down from 95), puts HEC Paris on top thanks in large part to a reported 133% increase in MBA…

Ultimate Guide To Business Master’s Programs In Europe (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: November 26, 2020

While the MBA has long been the most popular graduate business degree in the U.S., the preeminent business master's in Europe has been the Masters in Management. Most of Europe's best business schools, from London Business School to HEC Paris, have thriving MiM programs, with highly selective admission standards. Only in the past year has…

Iowa Goes Inside For A New Tippie Business Dean (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: November 22, 2020

After a search for a new dean was interrupted and restarted due to the COVID pandemic, the University of Iowa is putting the future of its Tippie College of Business in the hands of a known insider. Amy Kristof-Brown, a senior associate dean who has served as the interim dean at Tippie for the past…

The Leading B-Schools With The Most Women (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: July 28, 2021

Samantha Malone wasn't planning to apply to an MBA program this spring. But when the coronavirus pandemic caused most top business schools to extend deadlines and suspend testing requisites, Malone, a product manager in the San Francisco Bay Area, found herself in a "Why not now?" frame of mind. "I was planning on applying in…

Meet HKU Business School’s MBA Class Of 2021 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: December 14, 2020

Hong Kong only covers 427 square miles – and they make every inch count! In the 19th century, the “Pearl of the Orient” was just a fishing village with few resources besides a harbor and a vision. Over generations, the former colony built on this advantage. Eventually, Hong Kong became the Gateway to China, a…

Meet The MBA Class Of 2021: Sandhya Narayanan, HKU Business School (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: December 3, 2020

Sandhya Narayanan HKU Business School (London Business School Track) “From finance and stock markets to writing, teaching and social impact, I want to be involved! A Chief Enthusiastic Officer, a hustler of many trades. What keeps me going is my optimism and passion to make a difference.” Hometown: Chennai, India Fun Fact About Yourself: I…

Meet The MBA Class Of 2021: Samuli Pyy, HKU Business School (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: December 2, 2020

Samuli Pyy HKU Business School “At least five of the following are true: pioneer, curious, polite, driver, intelligent and funny.” Hometown: Helsinki, Finland Fun Fact About Yourself: The books that I own weigh more than the motorcycles that I own. Both equally fun, though. Graduate Schools and Majors: (1) University of Turku, Finland (LL.M.) 2008,…

Meet the MBA Class of 2022: Celiwe Kawa, Wharton School (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: November 11, 2020

Celiwe Kawa Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania “Global explorer with a passion for Africa.” Hometown: Johannesburg, South Africa Fun Fact About Yourself: I have been to over 50 countries and lived on four continents Undergraduate School and Major: Law, London School of Economics and Political Science Most Recent Employer and Job Title: Kwanele…

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Schools That Give Round 3 MBA Applicants The Best Shot (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne & Heather Soderquist | Last Updated: November 4, 2020

Applying to a highly selective business school in the third or final round in MBA admission cycles is often thought of as a "Hail Mary pass," typically made in desperation, with only a small chance of success. After all, by round three, most of the class seats are already spoken for and admission officials are…

Proposed U.S. Immigration Changes Could Hit B-Schools Hard (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: October 23, 2020

Editor's note: This story has been updated to include a lengthy statement from Stanford University. This summer, business school leaders felt they dodged a major bullet when President Donald Trump's long-threatened changes to the visa system in the United States amounted only to a temporary suspension of the H-1B program, through which high-skilled, non-immigrant workers…

MBA Handicapping: Where Should This BMW Rock ’N’ Roller Go To B-School? (NEWS)

By: Sandy Kreisberg & John A. Byrne | Last Updated: July 2, 2023

https://youtu.be/vpGS6Ib61IY Patt has been a musician and bandleader for 17 years. But when he is not following his passion, this 29-year-old is working as a technical project manager for BMW, the prestigious German carmaker. And now he hopes to get an MBA from a highly selective business school. He's been entrepreneurial for much of his…