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London – CentreCourt 2018 MBA Festival (EVENT)

By: Ingrid Shults | Last Updated: October 3, 2019

In 2017, 32 of the top 40 ranked business schools participated in CentreCourt. You'll have a chance to meet them at CentreCourt 2018. This is a free event and space is limited. Registration for CentreCourt London is now closed For more information about this event, EMAIL US 2018 London Agenda Location will be announced once…

2017 Best MBAs: Saba Shafi, Wharton School (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: May 3, 2017

Saba Shafi The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Age: 30 Hometown: London, UK Fun fact about yourself: I am the voice of a parking lot in Minneapolis…“Caution! There’s a car approaching!” Undergraduate School and Degree: MSci Mathematics, Imperial College London Where did you work before enrolling in business school? Seabury Group, a boutique…

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Waitlisted At Five Schools. Then, Finally, A ‘Yes’ (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: May 10, 2017

Nobody is a sure thing when it comes to getting into the top MBA programs. Some of the best applicants on paper are deemed a poor “fit” by gatekeepers and “good-lucked” out the door. But one way or another, Yansong Pang was going to attend an elite business school this fall. He just had to be…

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After Earning An MBA, She Trashes The School (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: May 24, 2017

Just a few days after receiving her MBA from Columbia Business School last week, Kim Gittleson had a few choice words to express her disappointment about the school, her classmates and the degree she earned on a full-ride scholarship. A former journalist for the BBC News, Gittleson has written an essay that is nothing less…

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Best Free Business MOOCs In June (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: May 31, 2017

People call it the “It” factor. You know it when you see it. There is something that glows about these people. You hang on their every word. You act on their every suggestion. You’re not sure why, but they’re able to reach you. Somehow, they achieve what they set out to do — always with…

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How MBAs Would Change Their Schools (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: June 6, 2017

Everyone has an opinion — especially when it comes to being in charge. MBAs are no different. Since arriving on campus, they’ve studied and practiced leadership. In cases, they’ve weighed alternatives and tradeoffs. Every day, they’ve been trained to identify gaps and opportunities, to imagine, question, test, and contrast. In other words, they’ve honed the…

Busting The Biggest Business School Myths (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 3, 2019

Hate standing in airport security lines? Ryan Bingham does. The traveling downsizer played by George Clooney in Up In The Air, Bingham cautions a protégé early on to never get behind old people. Why? “Their bodies are littered with hidden metal and they never seem to appreciate how little time they have left.” His ideal…

Best Free Business MOOCs In July (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: July 1, 2017

Technology has become the most disruptive force in business. Harvard Business School’s Clayton Christensen was among the first to recognize the potentially devastating power of technology in The Innovator’s Dilemma, a wake up call published at the dawn of the internet age in 1997. This dilemma, Clayton explains, stems from an incumbent’s focus on organizational…

U.S. Schools With The Most International Students (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: July 10, 2017

Business schools in the United States, like all colleges and universities, need students from other countries. They couldn't pay the bills otherwise. Altogether, foreign students make up 5% of the 20 million college students in the U.S., according to a Washington Post report, adding more than $35 billion to the economy. At the top business schools, MBA…

What MBAs Love Most About B-School (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: July 18, 2017

For Molly Duncan, business school was a great awakening. Like any renewal, her awakening arose more how she felt than what she learned. Two years ago, Duncan, a psychology major, had arrived at Darden with no academic business training. Intent on mastering the intricacies of capital structures and value creation, she soon discovered that the…

Mannheim B-School, Football Club Team Up (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: July 25, 2017

A mid-tier business school and a mid-tier soccer team join forces, hoping a combination of resources will elevate both in their respective rankings. No, it's not the plot of a movie — it's the news out of Germany, where the country's top business school, Mannheim, has announced a partnership with TSG Hoffenheim, a rising power…

Best Free MOOCs In Business For August (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: July 29, 2017

People define success in different ways. When it comes to careers, many gauge their performance against money and status, tirelessly working for approval from those they barely know. For G. Richard Shell, the chair of the legal students and business ethics department at the Wharton School, that is a trap that often leads professionals to…

2017 MBAs To Watch: Ladi Lawani, Columbia Business School (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: August 1, 2017

Ladi Lawani Columbia Business School “I am very ambitious and a people person.” Age: 28 Hometown: Lagos Nigeria Fun fact about yourself: At some point after undergrad I seriously considered pursuing a career as a professional soccer player. Undergraduate School and Degree: BA Economics, Knox College Where did you work before enrolling in business school?…

Dean Named For New B-School At King’s College London (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: August 3, 2017

It isn't every day when a leading university creates a new business school, especially these days when there are more than 16,000 schools worldwide already granting business degrees. But King's College London, the newest B-school of some prominence, has now tapped one of its own professors to be its first executive dean. Stephen Bach, who currently…

2017 MBAs To Watch: Vanessa Macdougall, IESE Business School (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: August 7, 2017

Vanessa Macdougall IESE Business School “Fast-paced, fast-talking, light-hearted London girl. Happiest in environments or with people that challenge my perspective.” Age: 26 Hometown: London, UK Fun fact about yourself: I used to have repetitive nightmares about sharks, so now as a fairly direct consequence I spend holidays diving with them. Undergraduate School and Degree: University…

2017 MBAs To Watch: Caroline De Vit, IESE Business School (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: August 7, 2017

Caroline De Vit IESE Business School “Restless learner thriving on new challenges with enough passion to motivate a team of thousands.” Age: 31 “Restless learner thriving on new challenges with enough passion to motivate a team of thousands.” Hometown: Annecy, France Fun fact about yourself: I have been living in a suitcase over the past…

B-School Bulletin: The Age Of Dominant Leaders, Managing Millennials, & More (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: October 4, 2019

Michigan's Ross Just Hired Its Largest Group of Women Profs In A Decade News from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business "Michigan Ross welcomes six new tenure and tenure-track faculty to campus this year, including a Ph.D. alumnus and a former senior economist from the Council of Economic Advisers. "Five of the six…

B-School Bulletin: Students Band Together at UVA, & More (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: October 4, 2019

As Charlottesville Recovers From Violent Weekend, Alumni Band Together To Help News from Virginia Darden School of Business "As neo-Nazis and white supremacists converged on Charlottesville for this weekend’s protests, which left a Charlottesville woman and two state troopers dead and dozens more injured, University of Virginia alumni began organizing in person and online, ready…

Best Free MOOCs In Business In September (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: April 1, 2020

Business leaders revere teamwork. It is called a “force multiplier” and “secret sauce” — that intangible advantage that enables companies to strike first and get things done. Let’s face it: There is something noble about elevating the common good over the individual, of fusing diverse viewpoints to achieve something unimaginable on our own. Maybe that’s…

Top Entrepreneur-Producing Schools Are Tops At Everything Else, Too (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: September 4, 2017

So it turns out that the top schools for producing venture capital-backed entrepreneurs are also the top schools in just about every other measure. Who knew? (Hint: We knew.) Little has changed in Pitchbook’s annual ranking of MBA programs that produce the most — and the most successful — entrepreneurs: the mergers & acquisitions, private…

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2017-2018 MBA Admissions Events: A School-By-School Listing (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: September 6, 2017

You can learn plenty from a business school website. Most programs aren’t shy about framing their distinctive philosophies and features, cramming data points and testimonials onto every web page. If you have any doubts, admissions is happy to highlight how they execute on their promises by phone or email. Still, there is something about meeting…

FT Gives MIM Nod To Swiss School, Again (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: September 11, 2017

It's becoming an evergreen headline: The University of St. Gallen’s master in management program has been named best in the world by the Financial Times. In FT’s new ranking published Monday (September 11), the Swiss school’s MA in Strategy and International Management was named top program for a seventh straight year, edging out second-place HEC…

B-School Partners Share Their Challenges (NEWS)

By: Mona Bijjani | Last Updated: August 26, 2021

It’s that time of year again when first semesters have started at a lot of the top business schools worldwide. B-schools are infamous for their all-consuming environments. Hand in hand with that, come the relationship road bumps that constantly take place in B-schoolers’ and B-school partners’ lives. As new B-school partners enter the B-school bubble,…

New MBA Courses At Top Business Schools (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: September 20, 2017

The world changes, and with it changes business. Where once the men and women who run corporations were shy about expressing their political views in public, for fear of alienating segments of their customer base, now — in a digital world where cameras are always rolling and the news never stops — having and defending…

The Top Schools For Music Business Degrees (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: September 27, 2017

You don't have to be musically inclined to harbor dreams of musical greatness — and we're not talking about lip-synching and air guitar in front of the full-length. Great music needs behind-the-scenes women and men, too: Managers, publishers, promoters, and many others collaborate to make records. Of course, if you're a musician or songwriter (or…

Best Free MOOCs In Business In October (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: September 28, 2017

Why won’t they listen to me? It’s never easy being on the outside. You have ideas, energy, and courage. Entrenched in the front lines, you witness the bottlenecks and redundancies – and the havoc they bring. So much waste and cost. How do the higher ups miss it, you wonder? Despite your persistence, you can’t…

B-School Bulletin: Uber’s London Woes, & More (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: September 30, 2017

Uber Underestimated Its Reputation As A Resource News from London Business School "Both Uber and London’s tech scene have been dealt a significant reputational blow after one of the fastest growing companies was stripped of its London licence, according to Freek Vermeulen, Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. “'At this stage,…

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