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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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Winners & Losers In U.S. News’ 2012 MBA Ranking (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: March 14, 2012

Shortly after Harvard Business School professor David Thomas was named dean of Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business last year, he met privately with University President John J. DeGiola. "What is going to be the part of the job that will be the toughest for you?," asked DeGiola. "Waking up every day knowing how much…

What U.S. News’ List Means For Applicants (NEWS)

By: Shawn P. O'Connor | Last Updated: December 29, 2021

Numerous media outlets, including Businessweek, The Economist, the Financial Times, and of course US News & World Report, publish business school rankings, each with their own unique methodology. While there is substantial debate over whose approach is the most accurate, the impact of the various rankings comes largely from when they are released. As US…

New Dean Named At Iowa’s Tippie College (NEWS)

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

Sarah Gardial, vice provost of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has been named the first woman dean of the University of Iowa’s Henry B. Tippie College of Business, effective July 1. Gardial, 54, prevailed over four other finalists who publicly presented their visions for the future of the Tippie School and were ultimately graded by…

UNC’s $10 Million Online MBA Program (NEWS)

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

Marissa Hunt and Ben Walker are trying hard to coax a few million bucks from four venture capitalists in a San Francisco conference room. But they’re pitching a rather peculiar idea and there’s skepticism all over the faces of the people they’re trying to sell. The idea: a retractable shield that covers the top of…

Handicapping Your Odds of Getting In (NEWS)

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

With a Wharton undergrad in her pocket, this 26-year-old woman has been working for the past five years in real estate private equity and mentors underprivileged high school students. She now wants an MBA to move into a deal sourcing role at a private equity or venture capital fund. He’s a 30-year-old Jordanian who has…

EMLYON Names New President (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: December 30, 2021

Philippe Courtier, currently Director of the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC) will join EMLYON Business School in July 2012 as President. He succeeds Patrick Molle, president of EMLYON since 1996, who announced in May 2011 that he would be stepping down this year. Poets&Quants ranks EMLYON 21st among the best business schools outside…

What If Don Draper Had An MBA? (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: December 1, 2021

“Advertising is based on one thing: happiness. And do you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car. It's freedom from fear. It's a billboard on the side of a road that screams with reassurance that whatever you're doing is OK. You are OK.” Ah, that silver-tongued devil! In fifteen years,…

The Financial Times Historical MBA Rankings (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: December 1, 2021

You’d be hardpressed to find a business school that can match the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business’ gains in both excellence and prestige over the past dozen years. The quality and diversity of Booth’s students has seen singificant improvement, with average GMAT scores for the latest entering class now 719, up from 687…

Concern Over HBS’ ‘Mad Men’ Culture (NEWS)

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

The student newspaper at Harvard Business School reported today (April 30) that an off campus sexual assault on an unidentified MBA student is prompting deeper questions about the broader culture of the famous business school. According to the report in The Harbus, written by The Harbus’ recently elected co-editor Bart Clareman, the assault “involved unwanted…

Calculating Your Odds Of Getting In (NEWS)

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

He plays guitar and the trumpet and sings in a band when he’s not working as an analyst for a Boston-based investment management firm. With a Ivy League degree and a 740 GMAT score, this 27-year-old hopes an MBA will allow him to “build something—not just judge others’ ability to do.” With the exception of…

Confessions Of A Certified Quant (NEWS)

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

Paris de L’Etraz is an investment banker turned business school professor who knows a quant when he sees one. They are usually mathematically minded and see numbers as sacred. They struggle with ambiguity. They are obsessed with objectively. They believe that more information means more certainty. They exhibit a fairly closed mind. They struggle in…