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20 Essential MOOC Courses In Business (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: June 10, 2020

Remember when you’d spend $1,200 or more to take a course? You’d slip out of work early to spend your nights with the other climbers. Who knows, maybe you hit the jackpot and took a correspondence course…usually from an institution you’d never heard of before. But that’s changing. These days, you can enroll in many…

2012 BusinessWeek Corrected MBA Ranking (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 10, 2020

Because of an error in calculating its 2012 ranking, Bloomberg BusinessWeek had to publish a correction that led to numerous changes largely in the intellectual capital portion of it list. Here is the corrected 2012 ranking from the magazine. For the fourth consecutive time, the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business hit the rankings…

Getting Into B-School When You’re 30+ (NEWS)

By: Judith Silverman Hodara and Caroline Diarte Edwards | Last Updated: July 9, 2024

Why are the world's leading full-time MBA programs so focused on 20-somethings? After all, you're never too old to learn, and for every youthful founder of Facebook, Instagram or Spotify there are thousands of others whose business success has arrived much later in their career. A scan of the class profiles at the world's top…

Some 15% of the applicants to Harvard Business School last year applied with a test score from the GRE. Those who applied with a GMAT tended to do slightly better than their GRE counterparts. HBS GMAT

Why Harvard Business School Needs Another $1 Billion (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 9, 2020

“I remember like yesterday when I got the letter from HBS saying I had been admitted,” confides Harvard Business School super star professor Clay Christensen. “I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, how are we going to pay for this thing because I was newly married. We had no money and a baby on the way. When…

Upcoming Essential MOOCs In Business (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: June 9, 2020

“There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” That may be true in business. But thanks to platforms like Coursera and EdX, you can get a free education. MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are truly revolutionizing education. In the old days, you’d commit years (and tens-of-thousands of dollars) to earning a degree or certificate. Back…

The Ideal Timetable To Do A B-School App (NEWS)

By: Matt Symonds | Last Updated: June 9, 2020

How long should you take to prepare your B-school applications? If you are tempted to throw together your MBA application the weekend before the deadline, think again. Admissions officers can easily distinguish between a hurried list of accomplishments and predictably routine career goals versus a thoughtful exploration of your personal growth, and how you intend…

25 Essential Business MOOCs For June (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: June 4, 2020

You might view summer as a time to kick back and re-charge. But if you’re a superstar professor like Ross’ Gautam Kaul, the summer is the perfect time to draw a big audience and build your brand. Come June 2nd, Kaul is back with his uber-popular Introduction to Finance course on Coursera. How popular? According…

Where Top CEOs Went to Business School (NEWS)

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

Harvard Business School Again Leads The CEO Race How influential is a college degree in landing the top job in a major corporation? It's a hard question to answer because more often than not it's the person--not the school--that is responsible for professional success. The best schools, of course, often draw the more ambitious and…

UK B-schools Reject TOEFL Exams (NEWS)

By: Helena Pozniak | Last Updated: June 2, 2020

A handful of UK business schools are no longer accepting the internationally popular TOEFL tests as proof of English language ability for overseas students needing visas. The move comes after the BBC uncovered testing fraud earlier this year. The University of Cambridge's Judge Business School, Durham University Business School, and London's Cass Business School have…

Essential Business MOOCs For July (NEWS)

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

“What I’m doing is I am looking for more people to talk to about innovation...because I found my wife and my kids don’t want to hear about it anymore.” Well, one family’s loss is the world’s gain. On July 1st, David Owens will launch his much-anticipated MOOC, “Leading Strategic Innovation in Organizations.” Owens, a professor…

Is Your Business School A Lamborghini Or A Volkswagen? (NEWS)

By: Alex Chu | Last Updated: June 1, 2020

When you strip away all the discussion about GMAT averages, salary stats, and rankings, you can pretty much reduce the business school game to a single metaphor. Schools are not unlike cars, with distinct attributes that can tell you something about the people who go to one institution over another. Which institution is the Lamborghini of business schools?…

Warwick Business School: Ambitious Plans For The Future (NEWS)

By: Helena Pozniak | Last Updated: April 13, 2020

Gazing out of his window, the dean of Warwick Business School looks onto a building site. Next year this will be transformed into £30 million of swanky new facilities as the school’s premises become half as big again – complete with state-of-the-art lecture theaters, seminar rooms, a 150-seat cafe, and a Behavioral Science lab ready…

The Most ‘Popular’ B-Schools Among MBAs (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: April 8, 2020

How do you measure an MBA program’s popularity? Do you look at the front end, with the volume of applications and the caliber of GMATs and undergrad GPAs? Or, do you focus on back-end metrics like starting salaries, placement rates, and recruiter opinions? Then again, there’s always a third way: ask graduates themselves for…

Which Business Schools Produce the Highest Returns? (NEWS)

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

Choosing a business school is much like picking an investment. You can spend big on a blue chip, looking to compound your money over the long-term. You can sift through discounts, hoping the value turns around over time. You can even plow your money into a low risk treasury bond, to ensure you land…

Battle Of The B-School Ice Buckets (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: April 7, 2020

The two-year MBA students have yet to show up on the campus of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. So Elizabeth “Betsy” Ziegler, associate dean of MBA programs and dean of students, and a few of her colleagues took up the ALS ice bucket challenge made by Columbia Business School. And then, Kellogg MBA students…

Get the inside scoop on the MBA Financial Times Personal and Career Growth measurement. It shows which schools live up to their promises to students.

The Best Business Schools for Career and Personal Growth (NEWS)

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

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Business school is a place to hide out. After getting beaten down in the real world, MBA students – like hippies before them – are just looking to “find themselves.” Back on campus, they can ride out their quarter life crisis. Coddled and insulated, they indulge in…

How Hult Became The World’s Largest Graduate Business School (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: April 6, 2020

Massive-scale telemarketing. Kickbacks for admissions consultants. Easy scholarships that critics say amount to little more than enticing tuition discounts. Those are core elements of the most aggressive recruitment machine in the business school world. And now Hult International Business School is taking aim at Latin America, amid a growing world-wide expansion campaign. The school’s global…

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Best B-Schools For Entrepreneurs (NEWS)

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

“When I grow up, I want to start my own company.” Bet you wouldn’t hear baby boomers exclaim that in sixth grade. Back then, they imagined themselves becoming Alan Shepard or Jackie Kennedy, pushing boundaries and promoting justice. In the end, many never found their calling. Gen-X? After Vietnam and Watergate, they just wanted calm…

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The Top University Business Incubators (NEWS)

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

At some point, most professionals dream of starting a business. It’s certainly a tantalizing proposition. On paper, you’re free to do whatever you want – and do it the way you want. Like all pioneers, you can savor the creation of something that grows and makes a difference. Alas, entrepreneurship comes with serious caveats. The…

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Best Places To Study Business Abroad (NEWS)

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

The Best Places to Study Business Abroad For many international students, the United States is an academic destination. In fact, international students enrolling in American colleges and universities grew by 476% from 2001-2012. In graduate schools, business students comprise over 30% of students with F-1 visas. Mind you, American b-school students aren’t flocking overseas…

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Lots Of McKinseyites In New London Class (NEWS)

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

London Business School said that its newly enrolled Class of 2016 is its largest and most diverse cohort to date. Some 411 students, 88% of which are from outside the United Kingdom representing 65 nationalities, started the new fall term. The first-year MBAs range from a broadcast journalist for the BBC to a first lieutenant…

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Duke Tops 2014 Businessweek Ranking (NEWS)

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

Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business today (Nov. 11) emerged the big winner in Bloomberg Businessweek’s latest ranking of the best full-time MBA programs. Duke topped the ranking for the very first time, knocking down the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business which had dominated the list for the past eight years. Duke’s No.…

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The B-School Club For Billionaire MBAs (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: November 12, 2014

A Learjet on standby for treks to St. Barts. A heated marble driveway for their Lamborghini Veneo Roadster. An Olympic-sized swimming pool surrounded by waterfall grottos. 24-karat gold-leafed walls peppered with Picassos, Monets, and Cézannes. Admit it: You’ve probably dreamed of living like business titans, with their labyrinth gardens and two-story wine cellars. Ah,…

Businessweek’s 2014 MBA Ranking Winners & Losers (NEWS)

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

While Duke University's Fuqua School of Business is rightly drawing the spotlight for capturing first place in this week's new Bloomberg Businessweek MBA ranking, the biggest winners on the 2014 list are nearly a dozen other business schools whose full-time MBA program made big leaps. The most prominent and noteworthy: Yale University's School of Management,…

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Ivey Dean Expects School’s No. 1 Ranking To Increase Applicants (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: November 15, 2014

Duke University's Fuqua School of Business wasn't the only surprise winner at the top of the new 2014 Bloomberg Businessweek MBA ranking. The other big surprise was the No. 1 school on Businessweek's separate ranking of the best international MBA programs. London Business School? Nah. INSEAD. No, again. Would you believe Western University's Ivey Business…

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The Best & Worst Things MBAs Say About Their Schools (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 10, 2019

If you had the chance to visit a business school campus and ask current MBA students what the experience is really like what would they tell you? Pretty much what you are about to read. These comments were gathered off the most recent surveys of MBAs in the Class of 2014 by Bloomberg Businessweek for…

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The MBA Gatekeeper At London B-School (NEWS)

By: Helena Pozniak | Last Updated: November 29, 2014

“We have mid-Atlantic appeal,” says David Simpson, admissions director at London Business School. He means of course that LBS, ranked top among business schools outside the U.S., stands out by offering a program up to two years whereas European counterparts mostly stick to one. And when competing with the likes of Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton…

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