London Business School | Mr. Decarbonisation
GMAT 695, GPA 3.5
Kellogg SOM | Mr. MENA Growth Equity
GMAT 730, GPA 3.4
Kellogg SOM | Mr. West Point Logistics
GRE 327, GPA 2.76
Harvard | Mr. Energy & AI PM
GRE 328, GPA 9.65
Tepper | Mr. Tech Mil-Veteran
GMAT TBD, GPA 3.35
Columbia | Mr. European MBB Consultant
GMAT 645 (Gmat Focus), GPA 8.2
MIT Sloan | Mr. Startup Strategy
GMAT 720, GPA 3.7
Stanford GSB | Mr. Mid-Market PE
GMAT 770, GPA 4
Stanford GSB | Mr. MBB Guy From Big 4 & Startup
GRE 325, GPA 3
Harvard | Ms. Social Infrastructure
GRE 328, GPA 6
IE Business School | Mr. Indian Tech
GRE 333, GPA 3.38
Duke Fuqua | Mr. Never Too Late
GMAT 710, GPA 3.77
Columbia | Mr. Coast Guard Officer
GRE 327, GPA 3.1
Columbia | Mr. Wannabe Fintech
GMAT 725, GPA 8.4
Rice Business | Mr. Doesn’t Know When To Quit
GRE 331, GPA 3

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Why B-Schools Are Tackling Social Issues (NEWS)

By: Gregory Yang | Last Updated: December 30, 2017

Business Schools Are Revising Curriculum To Address Social Issues In mid 2017, Uber’s Travis Kalanick stepped down as chief executive following months of turmoil. The move came after Uber had been exposed for having a culture riddled with sexual harassment and gender inequality—the image of a stereotypical Silicon Valley start-up gone wrong. Across the nation,…

B-School Bulletin: Kelley Dean To Help Light Olympic Flame (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: January 6, 2018

IU Kelley School Dean & 2 Alumni Participating In Olympic Torch Relay In Seoul News from Indiana University Kelley School of Business "Idalene 'Idie' Kesner, dean of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, will travel to South Korea and join two alumni in the torch relay leading up to the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics.…

M7 Schools: The 2018 Data Is In & They Remain Magnificent (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: January 10, 2018

Way back in the misty recesses of business school history, deans from seven of the most elite business schools in the United States met and agreed on an informal arrangement. They would meet twice a year and share information, and not only among the deans — everyone else, too, from vice deans down through admission…

Top MBA Schools Are On Sale (NEWS)

By: Gregory Yang | Last Updated: January 12, 2018

Across America, business schools are offering cuts in tuition. The Wall Street Journal reports that top business schools are subsidizing MBA costs by offering millions in scholarships and financial aid to attract young professionals. “There’s been a real focus on eliminating financial considerations as a barrier for enrollment in recent years,” Luke Peña, director of…

10 Business Schools To Watch In 2018 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 11, 2019

Travel back to 2003. Wondering what the U.S. News MBA rankings looked like? Well, Harvard and Wharton finished as the top two full-time programs. MIT Sloan and Northwestern Kellogg were tied at 4th – just like today. And Berkeley Haas was again safely nestled in the 7th spot. Nothing to see here, right? Think again.…

B-School Bulletin: Trouble For Big Tech? (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: January 21, 2018

Where Are They Now: Catch Up With 19 Of MIT's Smartest Startups News from MIT Sloan School of Management  "More than 500 tons of garbage, 10 pilot cities, two major medical initiatives, one “unicorn.” In 2017 MIT Sloan alumni reached long-term goals, broke molds, and improved the lives of many people along the way. Here’s…

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Bocconi Joins B-School Global Network (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 26, 2018

SDA Bocconi School of Management, the leading business school in Italy and one of the top European players in business education, is joining the Global Network for Advanced Management. Bocconi is one of three new schools, including the University of New South Wales in Sydney, the group's first Australian member, and Strathmore Business School in…

Why IE Business School Lost Its FT Ranking (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 11, 2019

This story has been updated to include a statement provided by the Financial Times to Poets&Quants. The latest update is here: 'FT Excluded IE From Ranking After Receiving Completed Surveys From People Who Were Not Who We Thought They Were' Never mind Stanford's capture of the No. 1 spot in the 2018 Financial Times global MBA…

Best Free MOOCs In Business In February (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: January 31, 2018

“When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” Great advice, right? Just blend in. Don’t flout the local customs. Go along to get along. Who are you to judge? Of course, every culture holds biases and indulges practices that may seem unfair at best and immoral at worst. Many times, the gap between belief and…

How Business School Deans Would Change MBA Rankings (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 11, 2019

Want to stir up an argument in the faculty lounge? It only takes one word: rankings. They are the bane of academia, a crude instrument used to measure learning – an elusive and evolving mark that can take years to fully materialize. Some rankings are structured, often inadvertently, to confer advantages to established brands. Others…

B-School Bulletin: Cornell Kept Dean’s Departure Quiet (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: February 10, 2018

Cornell Kept Business College Dean’s Impending Resignation Secret From Top Administrators News from Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management (via the Cornell Daily Sun) "Cornell University so carefully and closely guarded the impending resignation of its business college dean last week that it kept even the college’s own top administrators in the dark. "Kate…

Super Elite M7 Business Schools’ Acceptance Rates (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 16, 2018

They’re called the M7 business schools, the most elite and prestigious list of full-time MBA experiences in the world. Here are the Magnificent 7 MBA programs: Stanford Graduate School of Business With an acceptance rate just a sliver below 6.0%, the GSB has the lowest acceptance rate of any full-time MBA program in the world.…

B-School Bulletin: Will Penn Grad Students Form A Union? (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: February 18, 2018

Deans At Penn's Grad Schools Urge Students To Vote Against A Union News from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania "As Penn's graduate students move closer to a vote on whether student workers can unionize, the University has increased its efforts to prevent the union from forming. "Graduate students, led by the pro-union…

Best Free MOOCs In Business In March (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 9, 2019

Any employee can rattle off the clichés about human resources. They are the company puppets and politicians, derided as “two-faced,” “impotent,” and “short-sighted.” Impartial? Hardly! To many, HR has been weaponized – the goon squad who’ll protect the company (well, current management mostly) at any cost. Worst of all, they seem to live in a…

Highest & Lowest GMAT Scores At Top Schools (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: February 28, 2018

The lowest possible score on the Graduate Management Admission Test is 200. But if you have a pulse, you’re all but guaranteed to score twice that — even if you have no business applying to business school. In fact, according to GMAC, the Graduate Management Admission Council, which administers hundreds of thousands of GMAT tests…

From Adventure Travel To Business With A Purpose (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: February 28, 2018

The co-founders of one of the world's best-known travel guidebooks want to make the world a less-lonely place for entrepreneurs in developing countries. Tony and Maureen Wheeler, founders of publishing giant Lonely Planet, have donated £10 million ($14 million) to London Business School to fund LBS’s newly established Wheeler Institute for Business and Development — a massive infusion that…

B-School Bulletin: Why Cambridge Analytica Is A Watershed Moment (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: March 25, 2018

News from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania "Serious concerns have arisen in the past week over how social media firms guard the privacy of their users’ personal data, and how the analytics of such data can influence voter preferences and turnout. Those worries follow a whistleblower’s account to The Observer newspaper in…

B-School Bulletin: Profs Weigh In On Cambridge Analytica (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: April 2, 2018

News from NYU Stern School of Business  "After five days of near-silence from on the Cambridge Analytica scandal that harvested data from millions of Facebook users, Mark Zuckerberg set out on an apology tour by sitting down for interviews with a number of news organizations last week including Wired, The New York Times and CNN.…

B-School Bulletin: The High Cost Of Free Shipping (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: April 15, 2018

News from Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business "It’s unclear when, exactly, the trend of free shipping began, but a good starting point is probably the 1999 launch of Zappos, an early online shoe seller. "The company worried that consumers wouldn’t be willing to buy shoes without trying them on, so it offered free shipping…

Six GMAT Exams & Nine Dings Later, An Admit From A Dream B-School  (NEWS)

By: Sharan Godya | Last Updated: April 17, 2018

March 28th was a day I will always remember. After having taken the GMAT a half dozen times and feeling the sting of rejection from nine different schools, from INSEAD and London Business School to Columbia Business School and NYU Stern, it was the day I would hear from one of the schools at the…

2018 Best 40 Under 40 Professors: Ileana Stigliani, Imperial College Business School (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: April 23, 2018

Ileana Stigliani Assistant Professor of Design and Innovation Imperial College Business School “Design thinking” is more than a buzzword at Imperial College among MBAs. Instead, it is a process of asking questions, framing issues, understanding implications, and tailoring solutions that meet consumer needs and serve the greater good. It is an approach that is grounded…

2018 Best 40 Under 40 Professors: Paolo Taticchi, Imperial College Business School (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: April 23, 2018

Paolo Taticchi Director Weekend and Global Online MBAs Director of Global Initiatives Principal Teaching Fellow in Management and Sustainability Imperial College Business School “So young yet so impactful. Brilliant yet humble.” That’s how Eyitayo Orifowomo, an MBA student at Imperial College London, describes Paolo Taticchi. Such talent and character may also explain why he received…

2018 Best 40 Under 40 Professors: Paolo Aversa, Cass Business School (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: April 23, 2018

Paolo Aversa Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) Cass Business School, City University of London, University of Trento (Visiting) Paolo Aversa was inspired to become a professor by Indiana Jones. You won’t find him being chased out of his classroom by angry students hurling spears and blowing poison darts his way. Instead, this strategy guru was nominated…

2018 Best 40 Under 40 Professors: Chengwei Liu, Warwick Business School (NEWS)

By: Andrea Carter | Last Updated: April 23, 2018

Chengwei Liu Associate Professor of Strategy and Behavioral Science; Course Director of EMBA (London) Warwick Business School Since 2012, Chengwei Liu has received six awards for teaching excellence, was listed as one of the next generation of business gurus by Thinkers50, and has received several “best paper” awards and monetary grants to fund his academic…

The 40 Best Business Professors Under 40 (NEWS)

By: Andrea Carter | Last Updated: April 15, 2022

We live in a time when a major international company must go as far as shutting down business for a day to hold racial bias training. In an era where the only thing that can derail a Starbucks is the perception by its customer base that the company doesn't care, it’s evident that "people" and…

B-School Bulletin: Impact Investing Comes Into Its Own (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: May 3, 2018

News from INSEAD "In 2010, INSEAD’s Global Private Equity Initiative (GPEI) started to explore the nascent trend of responsible investing. In 2014, it published its first report on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors within the private equity (PE) context. Four years hence, the industry has evolved significantly. "The increasing demand for public accountability and…

2018 Best MBAs: Jieqiong Xu, IESE Business School (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: May 4, 2018

Jieqiong Xu (Faith) IESE Business School             “A small girl always with a big smile and unlimited energy.” Age: 27 Hometown: Tianjin, China Fun fact about yourself: I don’t like sweets, and chocolate is the worst... Undergraduate School and Degree: Statistics (I live up to my Chinese stereotype!), Bachelor of Economics in Beijing Technology and Business…