Search Results for: london business school (3431 results found) Imperial Business School (SCHOOL PROFILE) By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: October 19, 2026 What You Need To Know The Imperial MBA: What You Need To Know Imperial Business School’s Full-Time MBA is a 12-month program that enables students to gain international business skills, customise their learning experience, and accelerate their responsible leadership aptitude. It is an ideal option for students looking to get a truly global experience in… The Leading B-Schools With The Most Women (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: July 28, 2021 Samantha Malone wasn't planning to apply to an MBA program this spring. But when the coronavirus pandemic caused most top business schools to extend deadlines and suspend testing requisites, Malone, a product manager in the San Francisco Bay Area, found herself in a "Why not now?" frame of mind. "I was planning on applying in… Iowa Goes Inside For A New Tippie Business Dean (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: November 22, 2020 After a search for a new dean was interrupted and restarted due to the COVID pandemic, the University of Iowa is putting the future of its Tippie College of Business in the hands of a known insider. Amy Kristof-Brown, a senior associate dean who has served as the interim dean at Tippie for the past… Ultimate Guide To Business Master’s Programs In Europe (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: November 26, 2020 While the MBA has long been the most popular graduate business degree in the U.S., the preeminent business master's in Europe has been the Masters in Management. Most of Europe's best business schools, from London Business School to HEC Paris, have thriving MiM programs, with highly selective admission standards. Only in the past year has… HEC Paris Stays On Top In New Financial Times Euro B-School Ranking (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: December 8, 2020 After years as a bridesmaid, HEC Paris has been named the top business school in Europe for the second year in a row by The Financial Times. FT's annual ranking, which lists 90 schools this year (down from 95), puts HEC Paris on top thanks in large part to a reported 133% increase in MBA… B-Schools (Try To) Predict What 2021 Will Look Like (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: January 14, 2021 It has become an annual tradition at Poets&Quants: Every December, we give the floor to the business schools we cover to offer their unvarnished expectations for the coming year. Strangely enough, last year no one accurately predicted what 2020 would look like. But that didn't stop schools from jumping at the chance to prognosticate once… 2020 Business School Rankings: The Complete Collection (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: January 14, 2021 Rankings are big business. They grab attention and generate page views. Higher rankings turn deans into dignitaries and graduates into gurus. They make it easier for administrators to demand more resources and alumni to dig deeper into their pockets. What could possibly threaten this cash cow? Oh, how about a pandemic? WHAT ARE MBA PROGRAMS… MBA Pay & Profiles: 2020 School Employment & Class Reports (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: January 14, 2021 A revolving door. That’s one way to think of business schools. In May, graduates stream out across the globe to make their mark on McKinsey, Microsoft, or Morgan Stanley. Forget starting on the bottom and paying their dues. MBA hires are thrown into the fray – the high profile projects and big name clients –… Deans From Top B-Schools Share 2021 Resolutions (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: January 14, 2021 Most of us use the occasion of a new year to resolve personal changes and improvements. Business school deans and others in graduate business education leadership tend to be more ambitious. Every December for the last few years, Poets&Quants has asked deans and others at the top B-schools around the world to share their plans… MBA Stories: A School-By-School Collection For 2020 (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: January 6, 2021 What a year! Last January, deans and employers alike were asking the same question: Is the full-time MBA dying? After all, applications had been down, thanks to a turbo-charged economy and a wave of new graduate degree options. Come summer, applications surged as prospective students sought shelter from a pandemic that wreaked havoc on retail,… MBA Handicapping: Harvard Business School With A 670 GMAT? Here’s How! (NEWS) By: Sandy Kreisberg & John A. Byrne | Last Updated: September 14, 2023 https://youtu.be/sZXPZSLM1U4 On the face of it, you wouldn't think an MBA candidate with a 670 GMAT and verbal-quant splits of 90/41 would have much of a chance at Harvard, MIT Sloan, or Chicago Booth, and perhaps only slightly better odds at London Business School, Carnegie Mellon Tepper or NYU Stern's Tech MBA. But then you… Coping With COVID In Europe’s Top B-Schools (NEWS) By: P&Q Staff | Last Updated: January 18, 2021 Two months after starting an MBA at INSEAD in France, Aubrey Keller found himself in lockdown at the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau. “I did not expect Covid,” he recalls of those first weeks of the pandemic, “but neither did the world.” About the same time, Hanna-Lil Malone, a former accounts director at PR… In A GMAT-Optional World, Average Scores Plummet At The Top 50 Schools (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: January 19, 2021 To anyone paying attention as MBA class profiles began to dribble out last fall, it was clear that average scores on the Graduate Management Admission Test were dropping. But not until all the top schools had released data from the coronavirus cohort of 2020 did we have a complete picture. Now we have it, and… Harvard Business School R2 Invites Go Out Feb. 3 (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 28, 2021 For thousands of Harvard Business School hopefuls in what is expected to be a massive round two pike up of MBA applicants, D-Day has just been announced. The school will notify candidates on Wednesday, Feb. 3, whether they won an admissions interview, an outright rejection or places in limbo on a waitlist. Chad Losee, managing… MBA Handicapping: Sales Guy, 31. Harvard Business School? Here’s How. (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: July 2, 2023 https://youtu.be/WpMtcxv6j8Y His target schools are Wharton, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, and Emory Goizueta. With a 720 GMAT and a 3.5 GPA in pharmacy, Adetayo Oluwasegun from Nigeria has worked in medical sales at two of the biggest brands in the business: Novartis and Bayer. This 31-year-old professional, who now works for a French pharma… 100 MBA Interview Questions By School (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: February 3, 2021 February is here. Round 2 has passed. Now, MBA admissions teams gear up and get serious. It’s interview time for business school applicants. Call it a rite of passage. Some candidates will get lucky. They might just skate by walking through resumes and trotting out talking points. In most cases, interviews are a means to… Five European Business Schools To Watch In 2021 (NEWS) By: Jeremy Hazlehurst | Last Updated: February 2, 2021 When stories of COVID-19 cases started to emerge in Europe early in 2020, everybody in business education braced themselves. It seemed that few organizations would be as badly impacts as business schools, with their lecture-rooms filled with students and faculty constantly jetting to and from all corners of the globe, and a business model focused… B-School Rankings Boycott Begins To Collapse For Financial Times (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 8, 2021 The M7 boycott of The Economist’s MBA ranking has failed to hold for the forthcoming list by the Financial Times which will unveil its new global ranking on Monday (Feb. 8). Many business schools which refused to cooperate with The Economist have played ball with the FT this year, including Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, Yale,… Where The Rubber Meets The Road: Racial Justice & The B-School Curriculum (NEWS) By: Jena Brooker | Last Updated: February 12, 2021 On a Monday in August last year, students in Paul Harper's Race and Business Ethics MBA class at the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business watched the Spike Lee film Bamboozled, a "critique of corporate America — but more importantly, a critique of how the Black image is used in popular culture,” Harper… Meet The MBA Class of 2022: Deepi Agarwal, UC Davis Graduate School of Management (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: February 25, 2021 Deepi Agarwal UC Davis Graduate School of Management “Energetic and passionate marketing professional fond of technology.” Hometown: Greater Noida, India Fun Fact About Yourself: I enjoy traveling. I have been to nine countries so far. Undergraduate School and Major: Undergrad: Bachelor of Technology, Electronics & Communication, Amity University, India Graduate: Post Graduate Diploma in Management,… Meet The MBA Class of 2022: Pamela London, University of Minnesota (Carlson) (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: February 26, 2021 Pamela London University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management “Athlete-turned-journalist-turned-marketer, runs on coffee, would rather be in Canada, my friends call me Professor Pam.” Hometown: Shoreline, WA Fun Fact About Yourself: I started downhill skiing when I was 3 years old (and cannot wait to learn to Nordic ski while in MN!). Undergraduate School and… 12 Inspiring Female B-School Deans Share Leadership Lessons (NEWS) By: Catalina Vlad | Last Updated: March 9, 2021 “To confront any kind of uncertainty, you need to be flexible.” Francesca Cornelli could tell you a thing or two about leading during a crisis. A veteran of the business school scene, previously holding positions at global heavyweights London Business School, the LSE, Duke Fuqua and The Wharton School, Cornelli has steered Northwestern’s Kellogg School… Master’s in Business Analytics: George Ponirakis, Imperial College (NEWS) By: rileywebster | Last Updated: December 28, 2022 Student Name: George Ponirakis Graduate Business School: Imperial College Business School Describe Yourself In 15 Words: Passionate about applied data science, avid fan of niche music genres and most team sports. Master’s Graduation Class: 2019. Undergraduate School and Major: Athens University of Economics and Business, Management Science and Technology. Current Employer and Job Title: Lloyds Banking… Meet The MBA Class of 2022: Samantha Mae Yau Bautista, National University of Singapore Business School (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: March 25, 2021 Samantha Mae Yau Bautista (Sam) National University of Singapore, NUS Business School “A banker by profession who is a creative at heart.” Hometown: Manila, Philippines Fun Fact About Yourself: Despite a day job that has always revolved around crunching numbers and making astute analyses, I’ve always nurtured my inner creative. I’m a surprisingly adept illustrator… Meet The MBA Class of 2022: Ardelia Djati Safira, National University of Singapore Business School (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: March 25, 2021 Ardelia Djati Safira (Safira) National University of Singapore, NUS Business School “A versatile leader who empowers people’s growth, leads by examples, and serves communities outside herself.” Hometown: Jakarta, Indonesia Fun Fact About Yourself: I really love art and music. Aside from pursuing academic and professional achievements, I try to balance my life with singing, playing… These 40 B-Schools Are On Bain’s Target List For MBA Recruits (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: April 9, 2021 It's well known that the mainstream recruiters of MBA talent have favorite hunting grounds for their future employers. Those lists tend to be highly guarded, in part because a company would not want to discourage MBAs from other schools from applying. But sometimes a firm will show its hand in special programs designed to get… Meet The MBA Class of 2022: Anmol Gauba, IESE Business School (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: April 9, 2021 Anmol Gauba IESE Business School, University of Navarra “Yesterday’s home runs do not win today’s games!” Hometown: London, UK Fun Fact About Yourself: I am ambidextrous. Undergraduate School and Major: BA (Hons) Politics and Economics - St, John’s College, Durham University Most Recent Employer and Job Title: Investment Associate, Forsa - a Riverstone Holdings European Platform What makes…