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My Story: From Yale and McKinsey to Harvard Business School & A Novel Road Trip (NEWS)

By: Maya Itah | Last Updated: October 21, 2021

Amaris Singer could easily pass for Rory Gilmore, the brainy, sweet and straight-laced lead character of Gilmore Girls. Singer even attended Gilmore's alma mater, Yale, as an undergraduate. But the Albuquerque native and self-described desert child is edgier, saltier and more business savvy than her TV counterpart - plus, she'll soon bag a business degree from…

Maryland Names New B-School Dean (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 21, 2021

For the past six months, the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business has been searching for a “visionary, strategic, entrepreneurial and energetic leader.” The school apparently thinks it has found that person in a veteran professor who has taught finance at Smith for the past 17 years, according to an announcement today…

What To Do Before Starting B-School (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 20, 2021

5 Things to Do Before You Leave for B-School It’s that time again! Students are flooding back to business school, determined to build their network and make their fortune. Before these future leaders fulfill their manifest destiny, they likely have more pressing concerns: “Where do I get my laptop fixed?” “What is a pivot…

London B-School Gets Largest Gift Ever (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 20, 2021

London Business School said today (Sept. 4) that it has been given its largest ever single individual donation by South African businessman and alumnus Nathan Kirsh. The gift of £10 million, or $15.6 million at current exchange rates, is one of the largest ever received by a business school outside the U.S. The money will…

London MBA Flips the GMAT Classroom (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 20, 2021

London B-School MBA Aims To Flip The GMAT Classroom We’ve all heard the term, “Flipping the classroom.” In this model, professors deliver online lectures and assignments before class. That way, classroom time can be devoted to discussion, hands-on learning, group projects, and remediation. By exposing students to concepts early, professors can use class time…

London Launches $160 Million Campaign (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 19, 2021

London Business School today (Oct. 3) kicked off an ambitious fundraising campaign to raise $160 million over the next five years. Today’s announcement at the Waldorf Astoria in New York follows the launch of the campaign in Europe last week when the school revealed it had received its largest gift ever--$40 million--from the Idan and Batia…

A B-School Social Media Ranking? (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 19, 2021

2013 B-School Social Media Rankings This week, MBA50.com released its rankings of business schools’ social media reach. In compiling Twitter followers, Facebook likes, Linkedin followers and YouTube subscribers, MBA50 determined that Harvard Business School edged out Stanford in influence. According to MBA50’s research, Stanford had nearly double the Twitter followers of either Harvard or…

Forbes: IMD Top International B-School (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 19, 2021

If you're looking for a quick return on your MBA investment, the best place to find it is a one-year program. Based on Forbes' 2013 ranking of the best international MBA programs, published today (Oct. 9), an investment in a one-year program is pretty much a no-brainer. And the 12-month program that blows every other school in…

‘Business School Is A Waste…If You Want To Blow $100K, Go To Vegas’ (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 19, 2021

“Business school is a waste of time and money. If you want to blow $100K, go to Vegas.” That’s what one disgruntled Class of 2008 MBA alum from New York University’s Stern School of Business told Forbes when surveyed for the magazine’s latest return-on-investment ranking of the best business schools. If the Stern alum wasn’t…

BusinessWeek’s Big Oops Ranking Moment (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 15, 2021

Arguably the most famous of all the cover stories published by BusinessWeek magazine carried the simple yet highly provocative headline: Oops! The story chronicled how many of the companies extolled for their excellence had badly stumbled. Now Bloomberg BusinessWeek has its own “Oops” to contend with, a mistake that significantly impacted its MBA ranking of last…

BusinessWeek’s Core B-School Team Out (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 15, 2021

The two top editors of Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s business education team left the magazine yesterday (Nov. 7), Poets&Quants has learned. Associate Editor Louis Lavelle, who has been the magazine’s business schools editor since 2005, and Staff Editor Geoff Gloeckler, who has covered management education since March of 2005, are no longer employees, according to another BusinessWeek…

Roger Martin’s Transformational Legacy At The Rotman School (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 15, 2021

It was a Roger Martin moment. At a dinner celebrating an extraordinarily successful 15-year stint as dean of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management last week, Martin gave a highly critical and pessimistic speech, declaring that business education is in deep trouble. “MBA education is narrow where it should be broad, shallow where…

Why B-Schools Reject MBA Applicants (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 13, 2021

How To Get A Rejection Letter 1 plagiarized essay 2 lukewarm references 3 exaggerated accomplishments 1 cup of half-baked goals 1 tablespoon of entitlement A quarter pound of proofreading errors Stir in pan and bake at 425 degrees for 20 minutes. And voila! You have a rejection letter. Ever wonder why a business school…

The ‘Most Beautiful’ Business Schools (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: June 19, 2020

The Most Beautiful Business Schools If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then many business schools are wonders to behold! If you’re like me, you probably attended college in cramped, cold, grubby classrooms that had a faint mildew odor left over from the Eisenhower years. But how you look is who you…

Jack Welch’s Online MBA School Gains Traction (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 19, 2020

He’s there in the flesh. Jack Welch, the legendary chairman and CEO of General Electric Co. Well, maybe not exactly in the flesh. But certainly live, unplugged and on a computer screen, with his trademark tell-it-like-it-is persona, a trace of the Salem, Mass., accent still in his scratchy voice at the age of 78. Sitting…

London B-School’s Impressive Job Stats (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 19, 2020

Fewer numbers of MBAs from London Business School streamed into the traditional MBA jobs in consulting and finance this year, with a record 43% landing positions in the corporate sector, according to the school’s just released 2013 employment report. For the 398 graduates in London’s Class of 2013, only 29% ventured into consulting, significantly down…

Best & Worst 2013 MBA Job Placement For International Schools (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 18, 2020

Applicants to the world's best business schools are generally an opinionated bunch--and often their opinions can vary significantly. But one issue that is bound to elicit general agreement is that an MBA degree should get you a job and a pretty good one. So it's worth examining how the best schools deliver on that promise to…

The 40 Most Outstanding B-School Profs Under 40 In The World (NEWS)

By: Lauren Everitt and Andrea Carter | Last Updated: June 12, 2020

Business school professors at top institutions are under intense pressure. And it comes from all sides--the publish-or-perish demands of academia, the university administrators wrapped up in rankings, and ambitious students determined to squeeze every cent out of a $100,000+ investment. Young professors face added stress: Most are decades younger than their tenured colleagues and only a…

The Economist Ranks B-School Networks (NEWS)

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

Ever hear the crack that you come for the beer and stay for the wedding? In business school, you may come for the knowledge, but you probably stay for the networks. Who wouldn’t? You want a job when you graduate … preferably a cushy six-figure gig. And it’s your connections, as much as your resume,…

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…

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…