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By: wpengine | Last Updated: November 2, 2021

The NU Singapore MBA: What You Need To Know The world’s only true, sovereign city-state, Singapore is home to just 5 million people but punches well above its weight in many respects. It has a complex and diverse history, with numerous empires sweeping through over the centuries, leaving it with four official languages — English,…

The New Faculty Faces At The Top Business Schools (NEWS)

By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: October 10, 2019

When Lalin Anik was growing up she wanted to be a professional athlete. To be clear, this wasn’t like the uncoordinated kid bouncing the basketball off his foot in the 4th grade YMCA League. Anik was good. For more than a decade she competed for the Turkish National Swim Team in her native Istanbul. She won championships…

Harvard Business School Tops Bloomberg Businessweek 2015 Ranking (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 20, 2015

For the first time since Businessweek started rating MBA programs in 1988, the Harvard Business School jumped into the No. 1 position of its influential ranking published today (Oct. 20). Oddly, Harvard switched places with Duke University's Fuqua School of Business which ranked first last year. HBS rose seven spots, while Fuqua slid seven places…

Harvard MBAs Doubled Their Income In Six Years — How Did Your School Do? (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 21, 2015

There's only one business school in the world where MBA graduates doubled their starting compensation six to eight years later. Guess which one it is? Harvard Business School. Among the wealth of data collected by Bloomberg Businessweek for its 2015 ranking of full-time MBA programs, the most compelling of all is the compensation figures for…

Alumni Love: The B-Schools Getting A Little Sugar Or Taking Their Lumps (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 28, 2015

For the first time since ranking MBA programs in 1988, Bloomberg Businessweek added an entirely new component to its list of the best: an extensive survey of MBA alumni. The magazine asked graduates from the classes of 2007, 2008 and 2009 how their MBA degrees impacted their careers, their boost in pay since getting the…

The MBA Gatekeepers At Columbia Business School (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: November 3, 2015

There’s not a smiley face on the door to the Columbia Business School admissions office, but there might as well be. It may come as a surprise that one of the most renowned business schools in the world puts a heavy emphasis on a quality so soft as a personable manner, but to the admissions committee,…

Meet IE Business School’s Class of 2016 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: November 11, 2015

“Practice makes perfect.” That’s great advice for mastering the violin – and even better for starting a business. At Spain’s IE Business School, students get plenty of practice with startups. The school was actually founded by entrepreneurs. Among alumni and students, as the joke goes, IE is said to stand for “innovation” and “entrepreneurship.” And…

Harvard Business School Tops New 2015 Poets&Quants’ MBA Ranking (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 3, 2019

When Facebook's Libby Leffler concluded that she wanted to apply to business school, she made one big decision: To apply to Harvard Business School and not to another famous school less than two miles away from Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Ultimately, she was drawn to the East Coast by the HBS alumni she…

The Forté Route To Business School (NEWS)

By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: November 24, 2015

When Janelle Marshall graduated from Duke University in 2008, like so many other graduates, she was thrust into an unkind economy. Armed with a degree in sociology and a certificate in markets and management, she bounced around from internship to internship before settling on a customer service role with Citigroup. “I thought I was going to…

Best Free MOOCs In Business For December (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: November 24, 2015

Looking back, the 2008 financial crisis seems so long ago. Much of the wealth lost has been recovered. And the hundreds-of-thousands who lost their jobs have moved on. But the event was a reminder of just how powerless we truly are against larger global economic forces. Sure, we learned the value of transparency and regulation…

The Best B-Schools For Teaching Excellence (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: September 11, 2023

The Best Business Schools For Teaching For some b-school applicants, the decision comes down to hard facts like costs, starting salaries, and placement rates. Others look at fuzzier metrics like the caliber of an alumni network or a particular specialization. In the end, all students return to campus for one reason – to learn.…

Our Favorite B-School Professors of 2015 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 4, 2019

As undergraduates, many of us were anxious around our professors. We believed their grades controlled our fates. And their red marks were devastating reminders that we weren’t quite as smart as we assumed. Fast forward to business school and suddenly our teachers are no longer these distant authority figures. After spending years mingling with senior…

Best & Brightest Class Of 2016 Business Majors (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 7, 2019

Come summer, MBAs will be venturing across the world to their dream jobs. But they won’t be the only climbers looking to make their mark. In fact, there is a good chance that MBA graduates will be managing these very people. They are the undergrad business majors who’ll be streaming out to the workforce. In…

Top Ten Business School Rankings of 2015 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 10, 2019

Everyone hates rankings. Critics claim they fail to measure the right data. Others say they're simply rigged. And why stack anything up if you’re just going to knock it all down? However valid, such criticisms miss the point of the widely tracked lists that are the obsession of applicants, students, alumni and administrators. Rankings are…

Digital Badges Make A B-School Debut (NEWS)

By: Alison Damast | Last Updated: January 4, 2016

Steven Olson and Daniel Stotz are part of a small team of professors and staff at the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University that has earned the nickname “The Beatles” for their work on a new digital badge program for students and executives. For much of the last six months, they’ve been holed…

Specialized Master’s Programs At 100 Top Business Schools (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: January 18, 2016

Ka-ching! That's the sound of one of the fastest-growing sectors in business education, the specialized master's degree. For schools, non-MBA master's programs can be a license to print money. For students, the degrees can be a license to save money - then print it. Among the adaptations forced upon business schools by 21st Century realities, the rise of specialty…

MBA Salaries Rise 7.5% At London B-School (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 19, 2016

Median base salaries for London Business School's Class of 2015 rose by 7.5% to $117,596 (£75,276) from $109,354 (£70,000) a year earlier, the school reported today (Jan. 19) in its 2015 employment report. LBS' median is significantly below both Harvard and Stanford ($130,000) and many other U.S. schools, but that's partly the result of a weaker…

Best Free MOOCs In Business For February (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: January 22, 2016

It’s easy to start something – but not so easy to sustain it. That’s the first lesson every entrepreneur learns. Early success may be a blessing, but it comes with gut-wrenching risks and tradeoffs. If you need to add employees to nourish growth, that requires new processes and infrastructure to organize your operation. Thinking about…

How Recruiters Rank Business Schools By Industry & Skill Set (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: February 16, 2016

Every recruiter carries a mental list of their favorite schools. They won’t admit to that, of course. But they know which schools share their values, screen out miscast candidates, and nurture the right attitudes and aptitudes for their company culture. Sure, every program develops standouts – but few can consistently produce the best and brightest…

Wharton Repeats As Top Research School (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: February 17, 2016

“Publish or perish.” That’s the measuring stick in academia. Right or wrong, research – the creation of knowledge – is the engine that drives tenure and confers prestige in many programs. When it comes to business research, Wharton has been the undisputed champion. For over a decade, Wharton has headlined the annual Top 100 Business…

Best Free MOOCs In Business For March (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: February 23, 2016

Everyone has a “big idea.” Some treat it as a passion, a higher calling to shape a better world. Others regard their idea as a means of escape or a way to make a name. Either way, that idea is always there, a lodestar that offers hope and purpose as it draws other inspirations into…

By The Numbers: Are Women Really Making Progress At Business School? (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: February 27, 2016

The progress of women in business is, like history, a tale of two steps forward and a step back, where the pace of progress seemingly fails to match the promise. There's little doubt that far greater numbers of women are enrolled in the world's best MBA programs. Just look at the trend lines at the…

By The Numbers: The Most Recommended MBAs By Business School Alumni (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: March 3, 2016

It's the ultimate question in consumer satisfaction. Would you recommend the product or service you've bought and used to others? You could hardly receive a better endorsement than gaining the unqualified vote of confidence that comes from a user's recommendation. And the equivalent of that in the business school world plays out each year when…

Schools That Meet MBA Expectations (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: March 5, 2016

Going into business school, every student has goal. Some are looking to land “the job” at a McKinsey or Goldman Sachs. Others hope to transition into another field. Of course, you’ll always find those romantics seeking that “transformative experience.” “Experience” is crucial, no doubt. Looking back, graduates will savor those moments when they won a…

Global Experience: What Schools Want (NEWS)

By: Caroline Diarte Edwards | Last Updated: March 17, 2016

More and more MBA programs are emphasizing the value of international experience in applicant profiles. Substantial international experience can help candidates distinguish themselves in the applicant pool for any business school, from the M7 to the top programs in Europe and Asia. However for an increasing number of schools, such experience is virtually a requirement.…

Average GMAT Scores For The Top 50 Business Schools (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: March 29, 2016

Editor's Note: The latest update to this story can be found here. Looking at GMAT score trends over the past five years brings you to one unmistakeable conclusion: The more highly ranked schools are getting more of the high scoring test takers than ever before--and in many cases the average class scores at highly ranked…

Best Free MOOCs In Business For April (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: March 31, 2016

Educated…Empowered…Equal. That’s the dream if you’re a working woman. For every woman who leans in, far more are left out. Often overlooked and underpaid, many women still tip-are tip-toeing a cultural minefield in their jobs. Speak up and you get shot down. Do your job well and you get boxed in with no way out.…

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