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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School (SCHOOL PROFILE)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: September 2, 2026

The CUHK MBA: What You Need To Know For centuries, Hong Kong has been a place where cultures have merged, and it is still arguably Asia’s foremost trading hub. The city’s vibrant feel still attracts go-getters from all over the world – making it an exciting place to pursue an MBA. As the name suggests,…

Warwick Business School (SCHOOL PROFILE)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: December 11, 2025

The Warwick Business School MBA: What You Need To Know Coventry, in England’s West Midlands, is home to one of the best-respected and oldest business schools in Europe. Less than two hours from London, Warwick Business School, also known as WBS, is situated in a prime, central location in the countryside, with access to major…

London & Iowa Deans Vie For Top Job at Carlson School of Management (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 7, 2022

A deputy dean at the London Business School and a senior associate dean at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business are among four finalists for the deanship of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. Randall Peterson, a professor of organizational behavior and deputy dean of the London Business School,…

How B-School Class Sizes Stack Up (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 21, 2022

Ever wonder exactly how large or small an elective or core course might be at a top business school's MBA program? There are schools that are routinely known to have so-called intimate cultures with small class sizes of highly collaborative MBA students. Think MIT Sloan, Dartmouth Tuck, and Cornell's Johnson School of Business. Yet, an…

Business Schools Accepting GRE Scores (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: September 14, 2023

More business schools are accepting the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) as an alternative to the GMAT for admission to their MBA programs. In almost all cases, though, GMAT applicants far outweigh the number of applicants submitting GRE scores. Even so, most of the prestige schools now accept the GRE, including Harvard, Stanford, the Wharton School…

Handicapping Your Shot At A Top School (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: December 29, 2021

When this 26-year-old woman was an undergraduate student, she lost a parent to cancer. With a 3.6 grade point average and a 760 GMAT, she now works for a non-profit that helps cancer patients but wants an MBA to move into a larger management role. After spending three years as an analyst for a bulge…

Assessing Your B-School Odds (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: November 29, 2021

He’s a self-described handsome and personable 29-year-old who works as a senior project manager for a consulting firm. With an undergraduate degree in sociology and philosophy, this poet wants to go to business school to help him start his own consultancy “at the nexus of the government and the private sector.” She a quant and…

B-Schools That Churn Out Consultants (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: November 23, 2021

One of the most traditional of all MBA jobs is consulting. It’s one of the few industries where the degree is pretty much essential for both employment and advancement. And it’s an industry that has a hungry appetite for MBAs from world-class schools, year in and year out among the most aggressive recruiters at business…

Featured Business School Profiles (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: November 18, 2021

Featured Business School Profiles -- A to Z Babson College's F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business While Babson is renowned for its success in cultivating entrepreneurs, far more graduates of the MBA program use their Babson training to succeed in corporate environments. Babson emphasizes integrative learning through its cross-disciplinary, modular curriculum. The first-year MBA…

The Revolving Door In Business School Admissions (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 18, 2021

Stacey Oyler can recreate the scene as if it were yesterday. As an assistant director of admissions for Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business in the mid-2000s, she recalls the grueling process of deciding on the fate of a seemingly endless parade of applicants desperate to get an MBA degree from the school. With a…

Calculating Your B-School Odds (NEWS)

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

After a stint with Bain & Co. as a consultant, this 26-year-old made the enviable switch to a hedge fund. With a 720 GMAT and a 3.7 grade point average at a "little Ivy," he's now hoping an MBA will give him the tools to start his own investment management boutique. She grew up in…

What Surprises Harvard Business School Students About Harvard (NEWS)

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

What most surprises Harvard Business School students once they arrive on campus and dive into classes? The answer depends on whom you ask. Tom Humphrey, a second-year MBA student who had worked for an online company in Australia, says he his first year at HBS was so intense he didn’t read a single book or…

Your Odds Of Getting Into A Great School (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: November 12, 2021

For the past eight years, he’s done a wide variety of missionary work from earthquake relief to ethnographic research in Chinese villages. With a 770 GMAT and a 3.9 grade point average in math, this 29-year-old now wants an MBA to help him transition to the corporate world. Before his start-up crashed in the Great…

The Little Business School That Could (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: November 12, 2021

No other city in the world can boast tougher business school competition than Boston. Seven MBA programs in the Bean Town metro area make the U.S. News’ list of the top 100 business schools. Besides No. 1 ranked Harvard Business School and MIT’s Sloan School (ranked fourth), there’s Boston College and Boston University (both tied…

How MBAs Grade The Top B-Schools (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: November 12, 2021

Among The Economist’s top 25 MBA programs, which business schools have the best curriculum, faculty, culture, career center and facilities? And which have the worst? To rank the world’s best business schools, The Economist collects a wealth of data to help answer those questions, including the satisfaction levels of students and recent graduates who are…

Ranking Schools On MBA Satisfaction (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: November 12, 2021

Since surveying students and graduates of the world’s top business schools, The Economist has collected the opinions of more than a quarter of a million MBAs. Yet, those student and graduate surveys account for just 20% of the magazine’s annual MBA rankings. The remaining 80% comes from data provided by each business school, from the…

World’s Best B-School Professors: Adam Galinsky (NEWS)

By: Andrea Carter | Last Updated: September 14, 2023

Adam Galinsky Columbia Business School Claim to Fame: Power and Status Age: 42 Discipline: Management, Behavioral Science Education: Princeton University, PhD, Social Psychology Princeton University, MA, Social Psychology Harvard University, BA, Psychology At Columbia Since: 2012 Before Kellogg: Taught at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management for a decade until this year Fun Fact: Lived in Indonesia with…

World’s Best B-School Professors: Pankaj Ghemawat (NEWS)

By: Andrea Carter | Last Updated: September 14, 2023

Pankaj Ghemawat IESE Business School Age: 51 Claim to Fame: Globalization expert; youngest person ever to be appointed full professor while at Harvard Business School Education: Harvard Business School, PhD, Business Economics Harvard College, AB, Applied Mathematics At IESE since: 2006 Before IESE: Harvard Business School Fun Fact: In 1991, became the youngest person in…

World’s Best B-School Professors: Lynda Gratton (NEWS)

By: Andrea Carter | Last Updated: September 14, 2023

Lynda Gratton London Business School Claim to Fame: Human Capital Age: 55 Education: BA, PhD (Liverpool) At London Business School Since: for over 20 years Before London Business School: Chief Psychologist at BA and then Director at PA Consulting Group Fun Fact: I love to paint the sea from my house in Spain If I…

World’s Best B-School Professors: Nirmalya Kumar (NEWS)

By: Andrea Carter | Last Updated: September 14, 2023

Nirmalya Kumar London Business School Claim to Fame: Marketing Expert Age: 51 Education: Northwestern University, PhD UIC, MBA Shivaji University, Master of Commerce Calcutta University, Bachelor of Commerce At London Business School Since: 2003 Before London Business School: IMD (Switzerland) Fun Fact: A passionate art collector. A custodian of one of the largest collections of…

World’s 50 Best Business School Professors (NEWS)

By: Andrea Carter | Last Updated: October 29, 2021

A great teacher, it has been said, is like a candle. It consumes itself to light the way for others. That’s an incredibly apt description for these 50 business school professors chosen by Poets&Quants as the world’s best. Most of these extraordinary teachers, chosen by their schools and their students, are long time legends in…

The World’s Best Business School Professors (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: September 14, 2023

They hail from business schools across the world. They teach and research in virtually every discipline. They are the world's top 50 business school professors. The list includes famous superstar professors, such as Harvard’s Clayton Christensen, Wharton’s Jeremy Siegel and Stanford’s Jeffrey Pfeffer, as well as faculty little known outside their schools or fields of…

How Schools Fared On 2012 Job Offers (NEWS)

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

This year’s job market for MBAs from the top business schools was exceptionally strong with the vast majority of schools reporting that nine or more out of every ten graduates had job offers within three months of graduation. Among the top schools, however, there were a couple of surprises. The University of Southern California’s Marshall…

BusinessWeek’s 2012 Business School Ranking (NEWS)

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

For the fourth consecutive time, the Unversity of Chicago’s Booth School of Business hit the rankings jackpot, retaining its number one title for having the best full-time MBA program in the U.S., according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Following Chicago Booth is a familiar cast of elite business schools. Harvard Business School retained its No. 2 rank…

The Gatekeeper to Cornell’s Johnson School of Management (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: September 13, 2023

A typical day in the life of a business school admissions director? It starts with an early morning flight from New York across the country to San Francisco. After landing at 3:25 p.m., Christine Sneva raced to Google’s headquarters in Silicon Valley in a pair of jeans, black boots and a stylish red flannel riding…

How The World’s Top Business Schools Teach Their MBAs (NEWS)

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

Think Harvard Business School and you think the “case study” method of teaching. It’s as likely a pair as Lennon and McCartney or Kermit and Miss Piggy. But you would be hard pressed to think of a similar pairing between a single business school and good old-fashioned lecturing, or for that matter, a school and…

London Tops BW’s Non-U.S. Schools (NEWS)

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

London Business School surged to the top of Bloomberg BusinessWeek's 2012 ranking of the best non-U.S. full-time MBA programs. London jumped four places to finish first, moving aside INSEAD which fell to second place. IE Business School in Spain was third, followed by Queen’s College in Canada and Oxford University’s Said School in fifth. For…