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NYU Falls Off U.S. News’ Top Ten (NEWS)

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

New York University's Stern School, locked in a tenth-place tie with Yale's School of Management last year in U.S. News & World Report's ranking of the best business schools, will fall out of the top ten when U.S. News publishes its new ranking on March 13th. A sneak preview of the top ten, released today…

Yale’s Global Network for Advanced Management (NEWS)

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

Yale School of Management Dean Edward "Ted Snyder has persuaded a large number of business schools around the world to join a unique network in an attempt to redefine how globalization is taught in MBA programs. He smartly used the convening power of the Yale University brand to corral schools in all the far-flung reaches…

Predicting Your Odds of Getting In (NEWS)

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

She has awesome stats: a 770 GMAT and a 3.93 grade point average in biochemistry and neurobiology. A first year medical student, she wants to apply for a joint MBA/MD program. He’s a 27-year-old public relations specialist who has advised companies engaged in mergers and acquisitions, proxy fights and other crises. Now he wants an…

ASU Offers 9-Month Masters In Mgt. (NEWS)

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

Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business yesterday (Jan. 26) launched a nine-month Master’s in Management (MiM) program. The program, which costs $36,844 for non-residents and $22,750 for state residents, will accept its first class in the fall of 2012. Though highly popular in Europe, accelerated master's degree are a relative novelty in…

708 MBAs, 1,549 Recruiters (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: March 23, 2022

Talk about an embarrassment of riches. This year, 708 Harvard MBAs in the Class of 2011 were in the job market, and Harvard Business School had 1,549 organizations vying for them. That’s right. There were more than two companies for every graduating student seeking a job, and some of those companies, including McKinsey, Boston Consulting…

Assessing Your Odds Of Getting In (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: March 30, 2022

She manages a $100 million-plus category for a big retailer in the Chicago area. With a 740 GMAT and a 3.6 grade point average at an Ivy League university, she has ambitions to get into a top-four business school but has already gotten ding letters from Harvard and Wharton. He graduated from West Point and…

Caveat Emptor, Caveat Debtor (NEWS)

By: Mica Bevington | Last Updated: August 17, 2011

David Wilson is President and Chief Executive Officer of Graduate Management Admission Council, the 58-year-old organization responsible for creating and managing the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). In 2010, prospective business school students sat for the three and a half hour exam 263,979 times, demonstrating a healthy appetite for management education, despite the rising costs…

Double Dip: Why MBAs Shouldn’t Panic (NEWS)

By: Dean Robert Bruner | Last Updated: August 9, 2011

"You're sick of the game" Well now, that's a shame. You're young and you're brave and you're bright. "You've had a raw deal." I know-but don't squeal. Buck up, do your damnedest, and fight. It's the plugging away that will win you the day. So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your…

Getting Into Wharton: Does College & Work Pedigree Trump Merit? (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: August 8, 2011

Mark Goldberg had every reason to believe he would be among the incoming MBA class this fall at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. Without taking a prep course or even buying a study book, he had pretty much aced the GMAT exam with a score of 770 out of 800--50 points higher…

Should You Get an Online MBA Degree? (NEWS)

By: John Hendel | Last Updated: October 7, 2019

People looking to earn an MBA degree online can find hundreds of programs on the Internet. Such choice, students have learned, can be both a blessing and a curse. Yes, a choice of schools is nice. But prospective candidates for online MBAs now have to sift through a deluge of university options, both for-profit and…

Post-MBA: A Job or Another Degree? (NEWS)

By: Karl Muth | Last Updated: May 23, 2011

Many see the MBA as a bridge to a promotion, the start of a career in investment banking, or the skillset needed to start a business. It can be one or all of these things. During my two years earning the MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with a concentration in…

MBA: The Fortune Elite’s Preferred Degree (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: May 3, 2011

If your ambition is to one day become the chief executive officer of a Fortune 100 company, you’d be wise to get an MBA degree—and get it from the most highly rated business school that will accept you. That’s the inevitable conclusion from looking at the educational backgrounds of the CEOs of Fortune’s newest list…

Gaddafi Son Expelled from Top MBA Program (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: March 9, 2011

The rebel uprising in Libya is causing something of an uprising of its own in the world of business education, resulting in the resignation of a prominent dean and the expulsion of a student at one of Europe’s top business schools. Madrid-based IE Business School expelled the 27-year son of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi from its…

Wharton Tops New EMBA Ranking (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: March 1, 2011

That old cliché, "you get what you pay for," just might ring true in a new ranking by Poets&Quants of the best executive MBA programs in North America. At the top of the heap is the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, which offers the two programs with the highest MBA price tags in the world. Wharton's…

Sunil Kumar, the new dean of Chicago's Booth School of Business.

Chicago’s New Dean Pursues Globalization, Stronger Alumni Network (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 27, 2011

Nearly two months into his job as the new dean of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, Sunil Kumar sits in an office with a bird’s eye view of the dramatic façade of the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel on one side and an architectural masterpiece by Frank Lloyd Wright on the other. Everywhere, snow is piled high,…

Best Prof: Raymond Fisman (NEWS)

By: Andrea Carter | Last Updated: February 20, 2011

Raymond Fisman Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise Director, Social Enterprise Program Age: 39 Institution: Columbia Business School Hometown: London, Ontario Marital Status: Married Children: Erin, 2 years old; Charlie, 3 months Education: Harvard University, PhD, Business Economics McGill University, BA, Economics and Mathematics Courses: The Private Sector & International Development Managerial Economics At Columbia Business…

Lucio Sarno: Great Teaching Is About Relevance & Ethics (NEWS)

By: Andrea Carter | Last Updated: February 16, 2011

What do the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, Central Bank of Norway, Bank of Canada, Central Bank of Colombia, Credit Suisse of London, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and World Bank all have in common? Lucio Sarno. At just 39, this finance professor from Cass Business School has been involved in policy advice,…

Best Prof: Lucio Sarno (NEWS)

By: Andrea Carter | Last Updated: February 8, 2011

Lucio Sarno Head of the Faculty of Finance and Associate Dean, Professor of Finance Age: 39 Institution: City University London Cass Business School Hometown: London Marital Status: Married Children: None Education: University of Liverpool , PhD, Economics University of Oxford, MA University of Liverpool, MS, Economics University of Salerno, Laurea in Economics and Finance Courses:…

Best Prof: Vangelis Souitaris (NEWS)

By: Andrea Carter | Last Updated: February 8, 2011

Vangelis Souitaris Professor of Entrepreneurship Age: 38 Institution: City University London Cass Business School Hometown: Thessaloniki, Greece Marital Status: Married Children: 2 sons Education: Bradford University, PhD, Management Cardiff University, MBA University of Thessaloniki, BSc, Chemical Engineering Courses: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and New Product Development At Cass Since: 2004 Before Cass: Lecturer at Imperial College London…

Bringing Prestige & Status to the Online MBA (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 26, 2011

When the dean of the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School first broached the idea of launching an online MBA program, his faculty and students were highly skeptical. “Many of our full-time MBA students are not convinced this is a good idea,” says Dean James W. Dean. “They underestimate the challenge of what it…

MBA Jobs: From Dark Days to Present (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 14, 2011

In March of 2008, Harvard Business School Dean Jay O. Light pulled aside the head of the school’s career services to deliver an ominous message. “’I’m nervous, and I’m worried where the market is headed,’” he told Jana Kierstead, managing director of Harvard’s MBA Careers & Professional Development office. “’I see some warning signs. Can…

When The Sky Is Nearly the Limit: Highest Paid MBAs of 2010 (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: December 27, 2010

This year the MBA who landed the highest annual base salary--a whopping $350,000 to start--graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and went into a private equity job with a firm in New York. The starting salary alone was more than three times as much as the median pay--$110,000--of the MBA’s classmates and 14…

INSEAD (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: December 7, 2010

2. INSEAD Boulevard de Constance Fontainebleau, France 77305 Admissions: +33 (0)1 60 72 40 00 Email: mba.info@insead.edu Website: http://mba.insead.edu Apply Online: http://mba.insead.edu/admissions/ With two fully-integrated campuses in Europe and Asia and over 80 different nationalities in the classroom, INSEAD’s accelerated MBA program offers a deep and profound multicultural experience. The MBA program runs in parallel…

U.S. Jobs for International MBAs? (NEWS)

By: Pam Schilling | Last Updated: November 20, 2010

In the fall of 2007, Megha Agrawal left India and came to the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business full of energy and optimism. Like many international students, she was looking to take advantage of a job market hyper-friendly to MBAs from top schools. Megha originally came to the U.S. for her undergraduate studies…

My Story: From Hollywood to Booth (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: August 16, 2010

Sarah McGinty had an unusual advantage in applying to a top business school. Her mother has been a college admissions consultant for more than 20 years, and her father got his MBA from the University of Chicago in 1970. But Sarah didn’t take advantage of her mom’s experience counseling hundreds of university applicants, and her…

MBA Apps Faltering? (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: August 12, 2010

A two-year boom in MBA applications appears to be over, with 12 top U.S. MBA programs now reporting that the number of applicants in 2010 is flat or down compared with year-earlier totals. BusinessWeek is reporting that applications fell at Wharton by 9 percent to 6,819, at Berkeley's Haas School by 11 percent to 3,626, and at…

MBA Job Market Picking Up (NEWS)

By: Greg Spielberg | Last Updated: August 10, 2010

After a year of serious contraction, the market for B-School students is bouncing back. At Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, a flat fall recruitment season gave way to a flood of spring job offers. Recruiters posted 40 percent more frequently through May than they did in 2009, and it’s the biggest push since Executive Director…