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Harvard To Top New 2013 FT Ranking (NEWS)

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

For the first time since 2005, The Financial Times is expected to name on Monday (Jan. 28) Harvard Business School’s full-time MBA experience the best in the world. This will only be the fourth time Harvard has topped The Financial Times list since it debuted in 1999. Harvard had captured the No. 1 spot in…

Stanford Alums Make The Most Dough (NEWS)

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

Money talks. Bullshit walks. It’s an old, rather crude, American cliche that essentially boils down to this: The ultimate measurement of success is how much a person earns. And when it comes to MBA grads, how much alumni of schools three years after graduation make is certainly one way to measure success. Every year, The…

2013 Financial Times Global MBA Ranking (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 28, 2013

The Financial Times today (Jan. 28) named Harvard Business School the best place in the world to earn a full-time MBA degree. It is the fourth time that Harvard has topped the FT list since it debuted in 1999. Harvard had captured the No. 1 spot in both the inaugural FT ranking in 1999 and again in…

MBA Boost To Salary Declining, Says FT (NEWS)

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

When The Financial Times published its new 2013 global MBA ranking yesterday, the newspaper also unwittingly tossed a grenade into the one of the most controversial discussions about the MBA degree: Is it still valuable? “The MBA degree, often seen as the quickest route to a fat salary, no longer delivers the purchasing power it…

MBA Jobs: A Duke MBA At Bank of America (NEWS)

By: Lawrence Cole | Last Updated: October 26, 2021

Twenty-nine-year-old Bhavna Goyal is a trailblazer in her own right. She excelled in her mechanical engineering studies at Indraprastha University in her native country of India. But as a woman, she was barred from many of the professional opportunities that existed in her chosen field. Realizing the discrimination she would face, Bhavna pivoted into information…

An Interview With IESE Dean Jordi Canals (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 11, 2020

Shortly after becoming dean of IESE Graduate Business School in Barcelona in July of 2001, Jordi Canals began having weekly breakfasts with groups of MBA students. Back then, their concerns were largely focused on job placement and networking. They worried about landing a high paying MBA job and how their careers might progress. Today, his…

Why Women Go To Europe For An MBA (NEWS)

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

If you're a woman from North America who is studying for an MBA in Europe, you might very well be considered one of three types, according to a new study commissioned by the London Business School. You might have a "dual background," meaning you were born outside of North America from foreign parents. Or you…

Wharton Dean To Step Down In 2014 (NEWS)

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

The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School announced today (April 17) that Dean Thomas S. Robertson will be stepping down at the end of June of next year. A search committee will be put in place by the university to fill the position. The Scotish-born Robertson was appointed dean of Wharton in August, 2007-- eight months before…

Highest GMATs & Salaries in Europe (NEWS)

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

INSEAD has come out on top of a new ranking of the best European business schools. The school, with campuses in Fontainebleau, France, and Singapore, topped the list of 20 business schools. Right behind it were No. 2 London Business School, No. 3 IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, No. 4 IE Business School in Madrid, Spain,…

HEC Paris Hosts MBA Olympics (NEWS)

By: Lauren Everitt | Last Updated: October 25, 2021

MBAs can usually be found hunched over cases, scouring market data or swapping business cards, but on May 9 through May 11 more than 1,300 students from Europe's elite programs will dribble, sprint, climb, swim, row, bat and kart their way through 23 sports during the three-day MBA Tournament in Paris. HEC Paris has hosted…

Tech Executive Named New GMAC Chief (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: May 28, 2013

When Sangeet Chowfla took the GMAT exam in the mid-1970s, it opened up what he calls “life-changing” opportunities for him. The young man went to the University of Delhi, earning his MBA in 1979 and embarking on a career that would take him to Dubai, Greece, Germany, Singapore, and the United States. Today (May 28),…

Bad Karaoke, In-Law Recommenders: All In A Day’s Work for An Adcom (NEWS)

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

Over her 10 years in MBA admissions at the Wharton School of Business, Judith Hodara has seen it all: An applicant whose website featured video with horrendously bad karaoke renditions of Michael Jackson tunes, complete with moonwalk. A candidate who had his mother-in-law write a letter of recommendation for him. Even an applicant who left so…

Thunderbird: A Case Study In Organizational Decline (NEWS)

By: Taylor Ellis | Last Updated: October 21, 2021

To Larry Penley, the president of the Thunderbird School of Global Management, the deal is pretty much a no-brainer. With the school's 2012 fiscal budget $4 million in the red, he has agreed to sell the Arizona campus to a for-profit education company in exchange for sorely needed cash that would allow the business school…

MBAs Expect 140% Pay Rise From Degree (NEWS)

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

Business school applicants in the U.S. say they expect the MBA degree to lift their current salaries by a whopping 140%, to an average of $140,000 a year from their pre-MBA salaries of $58,000. If that increase sounds Pollyannaish, candidates in many other countries have even greater expectations, according to a new survey of MBA…

Are MBA Application Fees A Ripoff? (NEWS)

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

MBA applicants who plan to try their chances at a half dozen of the best business schools this year could easily spend more than $1,200 in application fees--more often than not, for the pleasure of getting a rejection notice. At least six business schools collected more than $1 million last year in application fees to their…

MBA Avatars To Compete In Contest (NEWS)

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

MBA students, it's time to get your avatars ready for competition. The first-ever 'Second Life' global business simulation will debut in October with 32 MBA students from such schools as Wharton, London Business School and INSEAD. The four-person MBA teams will compete for $50,000 in prize money in a 3-D virtual world in running a…

Handicapping Your MBA Odds: Mr. Army Intelligence (NEWS)

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

A West Point valedictorian, he’s a military intelligence officer who has had direct leadership of more than 100 soldiers. With a 700 GMAT, this twenty-something officer wants an MBA so he can return to the U.S. Army and eventually guide its cyber intelligence unit. An Ivy League grad with a 750 GMAT and a 3.75,…

Anxiety Builds Over Early HBS Deadline (NEWS)

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

Harvard Business School’s round one deadline--only five days away on Sept. 16th--almost always produces a certain level of anxiety in MBA applicants. But this year the unease and worry has reached something of a crescendo due to a new open-ended essay question and a round one deadline that is eight days earlier than last year.…

INSEAD Names Insider New Dean (NEWS)

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

For the first time in more than a dozen years, INSEAD turned to its inside ranks to name an economics professor based the new dean of one of Europe's top business schools. Ilian Mihov, who has taught at INSEAD since 1996 but has scant administrative experience, had been one of two interim deans since March…

2013 Forbes’ MBA Ranking (NEWS)

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

For only the second time in 14 years, Stanford University's Graduate School of Business nudged out Harvard Business School and other rivals to become Forbes' highest ranked business school. The biennial Forbes MBA ranking, published this morning (Oct. 9), shows the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business in second place, with Harvard dropping to…

2013 The Economist’s MBA Ranking (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 10, 2013

The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business has topped the The Economist's full-time MBA ranking for the second consecutive year. The new global ranking out today (Oct. 10) by the British magazine follows yesterday's publication of Forbes' biennial MBA ranking. Dartmouth College's Tuck School took second place again, while UC-Berkeley's Haas School jumped into third from sixth place last…

Calculating Your Odds Of Getting A Top MBA (NEWS)

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

This 26-year-old young professional woman is an analyst at a mid-level investment bank in New York. A Big 10 grad with degrees in finance and economics, she wants to use the MBA to eventually become a leader in the private equity space. A professional at Procter & Gamble, this 26-year-old man says he is French…

Prepping For Your MBA Adcom Interview (NEWS)

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

9 Key Ways To Ace Your MBA Interview “It all comes down to this moment.” That’s what athletes tell themselves with the score tied and the clock running low. Entrepreneurs dwell on that same thought before pitching an angel for a life line. Before you sit down with an adcom member, you’ll feel that…

Virtual MBAs Compete For Cash (NEWS)

By: Maya Itah | Last Updated: October 15, 2021

How’s this for an outlandish scenario? Four MBAs who’ve never met in person walk into a virtual business contest … and walk out with $28,000 in decidedly non-virtual cash. Today, VirBELA, announced the winners of its Global Business Simulation Competition. The victorious teammates: Ankita Solanki of the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad; Carine Toutet of INSEAD-Singapore; Laimona Staskus…

MBAs Turn Away From Wall Street (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 15, 2021

The Best And Brightest Are Turning Away From Wall Street The stock market is riding high these days. Earnings and cash reserves are better than ever. So why are the big banks feeling so nervous? No, the banks aren’t fretting over another shutdown (or a new round of subpoenas). Instead, they’re looking at a…

Harvard Profs Dominate Leading Thinkers List (NEWS)

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

Which business school can boast the largest number of the world’s most influential management thinkers? Hands down, Harvard Business School has emerged the leading home of the most important thought leaders in management once again, according to the Thinkers50, a biennial ranking published today (Nov. 11). Harvard has nine of the top 50 thinkers on…

Will MOOCs Make MBA Programs Dinosaurs? (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 15, 2021

Will Online Courses Turn MBA Programs Into Dinosaurs? The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is Rapidly fadin' And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin.' -…