Search Results for: london business school (3375 results found) Cranfield University School of Management (SCHOOL PROFILE) By: Heather Soderquist | Last Updated: January 30, 2024 The Cranfield Business School is where higher education dreams and aspirations take flight – literally and figuratively. The Cranfield School of Management is known for being the only in the UK with its own airport, for its ISO-accredited Crash Impact Center where they crash-test Formula One cars, and its world-renown National Flying Laboratory Center that… Lancaster University Management School (SCHOOL PROFILE) By: Heather Soderquist | Last Updated: January 30, 2024 The Lancaster MBA: What You Need To Know If you think business schools are all about shiny steel-and-glass buildings in the heart of bustling cities, then think again. Lancaster University Management School in the northeast of England is set in a 560-acre green-field campus surrounded by stunning sea, city and countryside locations and has been… How MBAs Rate Their Business Schools (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: April 4, 2016 If you’re a poet, you associate spring with renewal. You exalt the healing powers of sunshine and showers as cold turns to commotion. The cycle is similar for professionals weighing business school. Here, spring is a time to start and commit. For some, it is choosing between school offers. For others, it is the point… America’s Wealthiest Business Schools (NEWS) By: Daniel J. Bonsoms, CFA | Last Updated: April 4, 2016 The most elusive yet revealing stat about a business school is the size of its endowment. Few schools disclose this number in any public way, though it's fair to say that B-school deans put more focus on this one number than any other. After all, it's the ultimate measure of a school's true "wealth."… 2016 Best 40 Under 40 Professors: Matthias Seifert, IE Business School (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: April 13, 2016 Matthias Seifert Professor of Decision Sciences IE Business School IE’s Matthias Seifert is an expert in the Decision Sciences. His research focuses on issues such as individual and group decision-making under risk and uncertainty, managerial forecasting, and multi-attribute choice models has been featured in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review among others. He… 2016 Best 40 Under 40 Professors: Angel Saz-Carranza, ESADE Business School (NEWS) By: Andrea Carter | Last Updated: April 13, 2016 Angel Saz-Carranza Lecturer, Department of Strategy & General Management ESADE Business School Angel Saz-Carranza is one of the most prominent scholars in the field of geopolitics.At ESADE, he teaches both a Geopolitics course and another on Political Risk Analysis, Geoeconomics and Global Risks. In addition, he serves as Director of ESADEgeo Center for Global Economy… 2016 Best 40 Under 40 Professors: Robert Boute, Vlerick Business School (NEWS) By: Andrea Carter | Last Updated: April 13, 2016 Robert Boute Associate Professor Operations & Supply Chain Management, Academic Director Full Time MBA Program Vlerick Business School and KU Leuven (Belgium) Before joining Vlerick Business School and University, Robert Boute was a visiting professor at Kellogg School of Management where he conducted research and taught the school’s part-time MBA students. Along with his teaching… 2016 Best 40 Under 40 Professors: Haoxiang Zhu, Sloan School of Management (NEWS) By: Andrea Carter | Last Updated: April 13, 2016 Haoxiang Zhu Assistant Professor of Finance MIT, Sloan School of Management Haoxiang Zhu’s extensive look at the structure of financial markets has earned him high praise from the financial community, including four “Best Paper” awards, one “Young Researcher” prize, and a Morgan Stanley prize for Excellence in Financial Markets. His research focuses on asset pricing… 2016 Best 40 Under 40 Professors: M. Murat Kristal, Schulich School of Business (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: April 13, 2016 M. Murat Kristal Director of the Master of Business Analytics Program Schulich School of Business, York University How do you measure an educator’s success? That’s easy when it comes to Dr. M. Murat Kristal. In just four years, he has grown Schulich’s business analytics program from 4 students to 42. At the same time, his… 2016 Best 40 Under 40 Professors: Thomas Gilbert, Foster School of Business (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: April 13, 2016 Thomas Gilbert Assistant Professor of Finance University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business Thomas Gilbert is a popular guy on the University of Washington’s MBA program. This year, seven students nominated him to be among Poets&Quants’ Top 40 Under 40 professors. And it’s easy to see why. His students describe him as “dynamic,”… The Wealthiest International B-Schools (NEWS) By: Daniel J. Bonsoms, CFA | Last Updated: October 4, 2019 It's no secret that American universities have long been the beneficiaries of generous philanthropic support. Endowments at U.S. schools tower over all the institutions of higher education anywhere in the world. The income from those treasure chests is poured into superior faculty, the best and brightest students, and state-of-the-art facilities that make a U.S. higher education a… 2016 Best 40 Under 40 Professors: Haoxiang Zhu, Sloan School of Management (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: April 27, 2016 Haoxiang Zhu Assistant Professor of Finance MIT, Sloan School of Management Haoxiang Zhu’s extensive look at the structure of financial markets has earned him high praise from the financial community, including four “Best Paper” awards, one “Young Researcher” prize, and a Morgan Stanley prize for Excellence in Financial Markets. His research focuses on asset pricing… The Boom In Business School Endowments (NEWS) By: Daniel J. Bonsoms, CFA | Last Updated: May 2, 2016 Business school endowments can seem a little like the controversy over income inequality. The most richly funded schools seem to get richer and richer, while the poorer schools pretty much remain poor. Harvard Business School, for example, was the first school of business to have a billion-dollar endowment--back in the late 1990s. Today, it's still… 10 Insider Tips for B-School Admissions (NEWS) By: Matt Symonds, Director at Fortuna Admissions | Last Updated: January 29, 2025 The ding reports on Poets&Quants are a constant reminder that a stellar GPA and stratospheric GMAT score are no guarantee of a place in the world's top MBA programs. These quantifiable measures don't hurt of course, but the competition for entry to one of the top schools is such that your candidacy will need to… 2016 Best MBAs: Sean Porta, IESE Business School (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: May 15, 2016 Sean Porta IESE Business School, University of Navarra "I’ve gained a real appreciation for what diversity brings to a group of people. We all have our own cultural norms (or oddities!), ways of approaching situations, senses of humour, food tastes, you name it - but we all get along and we’re better off for… The Ultimate B-School Test: How Many MBA Applicants Want That Class Seat (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: May 27, 2016 To use a rock concert analogy, what's the hottest ticket today? But for a business school? One sure way to answer the question is to look at a rarely disclosed metric tracked by a number of leading business schools: The ratio between the number of applicants an MBA program receives in a given year and… London B-School Tops Fundraising Goal (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: June 15, 2016 Before London Business School opened its campaign in 2013 to raise £100 million in five years, the institution, widely considered Europe's top B-school and among the world's best, had never had occasion to publicly seek out donations in its 49-year history. But considering the success of its recent fundraising effort — which will close July 31, two… What BREXIT Would Do To Britain’s B-Schools (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 22, 2016 Much has been said about the potential impact of BREXIT on higher education in the United Kingdom, but what is the view from inside one of its strongest academic communities? The UK’s business schools are not only amongst the sector’s leading faculties, they also enjoy some of the most direct associations with the companies and… B-School Deans & Profs On The Impact Of BREXIT (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 3, 2019 Britain's historic vote to exit the European Union has the financial markets in a tizzy and many observers expressing hyperbolic views of a disaster ahead. While BREXIT has many implications for the United Kingdom's higher education market, much of what will actually occur is uncertain. Some conclude that there will be limited impact. Others are… The Biggest Surprises Awaiting You At Business School (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: June 24, 2016 In every board room, you’ll hear executives pay homage to business as a force for good. Too often, it amounts to little more than syrupy sentiments and half-hearted measures. Not for Libby MacFarlane, who graduated from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business with her MBA in May. She is a true believer that business can create value and fuel social… Best Free MOOCs In Business For July (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: June 29, 2016 Have you ever spent time around artists? Whether they pick a guitar or fill a canvas, you’ve surely experienced the “artistic temperament.” It's a mindset defined by artists’ impulse to express themselves, do something different, expand the possibilities, and ultimately leave a mark. In tackling a problem or bringing life to a big idea, they find… Maria Sharapova Tweets From Harvard Business School Strategy Class (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: July 1, 2016 Well, that didn’t take long. Five-time Grand Slam tennis champion Maria Sharapova, who earlier this week tweeted news that she was going to Harvard Business School this summer, dropped the H-bomb again today (July 1). On her final day of a one-week course on strategy, Sharapova tweeted a couple of photos and a succinct message from the classroom.… MBA Essay Cheat Sheet For 2016-2017 For Non-U.S. Schools (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 7, 2019 What kinds of questions are the best international business schools asking of their MBA applicants? Here's our cheat sheet for MBA essays for 2016-2017. Schools are listed in order of their Poets&Quants' ranking: 1) INSEAD Job Essay 1: Briefly summarise your current (or most recent) job, including the nature of work, major responsibilities, and where… Can Germany Overcome Barriers to Business School Greatness? (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: July 14, 2016 Udo Steffens, president of Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, says the time may soon arrive when a German business school is mentioned in the same breath with the top B-schools of Europe, London Business School, HEC Paris, INSEAD of France, and IE Business School of Spain. What will change the dynamic that has long seen the… Best Free MOOCs In Business For August (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: July 28, 2016 The workplace is changing dramatically. Baby boomers are working alongside Millennials young enough to be their grandchildren. Gen-Xers are squeezed between boomers reluctant to cede power and busters unable to wait their turn. The dynamics have changed as well. In 1962, just 38% of women participated in the labor force, according to the U.S. Department of… 2016-2017 MBA Admissions Events: A School-By-School Listing (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 7, 2019 There is never a perfect time to visit campus, let alone study for the GMAT or write essays. For busy and ambitious young professionals, there is always another deadline to meet or quota to beat. Thankfully, most prospective candidates don’t need to hit campus to get a taste for the MBA life. Instead, business schools… What Google Trends Tell You About B-School (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: August 15, 2016 What business schools get the most Google search love? Hands down, the answer is Harvard Business School, often the first school that comes to mind when people think about the MBA degree. At least that's what Google Trends data clearly shows. In fact, HBS is getting nearly eight times the volume of Google search than Stanford…