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Duquesne University’s Palumbo-Donahue School of Business (SCHOOL PROFILE)

By: Lauren Everitt | Last Updated: September 30, 2025

The full-time MBA Sustainable Business Practices (MBA-SBP) in Duquesne University’s Palumbo-Donahue School of Business is about transformative experiences, innovative leadership, and positive impact. Each year, we recruit a talented and diverse cohort of students who challenge, support and grow together as they form an invaluable lifelong network. Accredited by AACSB international and ranked 6th in…

London Gets Iconic Building For Expansion (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 28, 2021

London Business School today (Nov. 30) announced that it will begin leasing the Old Marylebone Town Hall in London where former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were married. The move amounts to a major expansion for London, which is generally regarded as one of the two best business schools in Europe with INSEAD. The…

Handicapping Your Elite B-School Chances (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: August 17, 2022

In the past four years, this 25-year-old female professional has zipped through three promotions at a national retailer where she runs a multi-million-dollar business. With a 710 GMAT and a 3.69 undergraduate grade point average, she hopes to get an MBA to broaden her skill set. He landed a job in sales at a Silicon…

A $249,504 Bonus For A London MBA (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 27, 2021

London Business School said yesterday (Dec. 12) that 92% its Class of 2012 landed jobs within three months of graduation, just slightly below the 95% numbers for Harvard and Wharton and 96% for Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management this year. In its newly released 2012 employment report, the school said that the average starting…

How A Top School Screens MBA Applicants (NEWS)

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

Niki da Silva sits at the head of a long rectangular table in an ultra-modern glass-walled conference room on the sixth floor of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. As director of MBA admissions and recruitment, da Silva is the school’s top gatekeeper, the sentry who decides which candidates get in and which…

Alphabetical List of Best Business School Profiles (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 26, 2021

A-Z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z American University, Kogod School of Business Washington, D.C. Arizona State University, W.P. Carey School of Business Tempe, Arizona Auburn University, College of Business Auburn, Alabama A-Z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z FEATURED SCHOOL Babson College, F.W. Olin…

A – Z Alphabetical List Of The World’s Top Business Schools (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 26, 2021

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z American University, Kogod School of Business Washington, D.C. Arizona State University, W.P. Carey School of Business Tempe, Arizona Auburn University, College of Business Auburn, Alabama FEATURED SCHOOL Babson College, F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business Babson Park, Massachusetts Ball State University Miller College of Business Muncie, Illinois Baylor…

Ranking Business Schools On Research (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 25, 2021

Which business schools' professors crank out the most research? According to a new ranking that takes into account the published work of profs between 2008 and 2012, it's the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. A distant second is Harvard Business School, followed by the University of Michigan's Ross School, New York University's Stern School of…

Handicapping Your Shot At A Top School (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 22, 2021

After earning a finance degree from a liberal arts school in the Midwest, this 25-year-old professional has been working in corporate finance at a Fortune 100 company. He hopes an MBA will help him land a job at a hedge fund. She's an Ivy League grad who also boasts a master’s degree in arts history…

My Story: From Bloomingdale’s to Cornell B-School (NEWS)

By: Lauren Everitt | Last Updated: October 21, 2021

For most MBA hopefuls, application essays are an excruciating exercise. Applicants are asked to pinpoint key moments, find meaning in them and connect the dots as to why these events make them a standout candidate. But for Richard Battle-Baxter, an application essay was more than a means to sell himself as the ideal MBA. It…

Handicapping Your Elite B-School Odds (NEWS)

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

She’s a 28-year-old American woman who works in finance for a software startup. This ambitious professional wants an MBA to transition into consulting. But she worries that her low grade point average of 2.3 from an “average university,” earned while a parent was dying, may make it hard to get into a top ranked business…

Indian School of Business (NEWS)

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

Admission Deadlines: Non-Indian Passport Holders: Early Entry Option candidates' deadline is January 15, 2014. Offers will be made on March 31, 2014. Indian Passport Holders: Cycle One: Sept. 15, 2013 Cycle Two: Nov. 30, 2013 The Indian School of Business (ISB) first climbed onto the world stage of business schools in 2008 when…

Which B-School Fits Your Personality? (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 21, 2021

Match Your Personality to a B-School Teaching Style For many applicants, a school’s teaching method is the last factor they weigh in choosing an MBA program. But then classes start…and they learn just how important it really is. This week, Stacy Blackman, an author and consultant on MBA programs, outlined the three major teaching styles used by…

Warwick Business School (NEWS)

By: Lauren Everitt | Last Updated: October 21, 2021

13. University of Warwick Warwick Business School Scarman Road Coventry, West Midlands CV4 7AL, United Kingdom Admissions: +44 (0) 24 7652 4100 Email: warwickmba@wbs.ac.uk Website: https://www.warwickmba.com In common with most European MBA programs, the full-time offering at Warwick Business School is an intensive 12-month effort. Students come to the University of Warwick’s campus in Coventry, about two…

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…