Search Results for: london business school (3431 results found) How To Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile For Your Business School Application (NEWS) By: Jennifer Bloom, Admissions Consultant with Accepted. | Last Updated: January 29, 2025 LinkedIn has become an essential part of the MBA admissions process. Whether schools require that you include your LI profile link or not, there’s an excellent chance that someone at some time during the application review process will be examining it (and your other social media profiles as well). We at Accepted view any additional… B-School Bulletin: Harvard Names 2018-19 Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: October 7, 2018 News from Harvard Business School "As usual, MBA students attending Harvard Business School this year who are interested in entrepreneurship or looking to create and even launch a startup of their own will be able to take advantage of plenty of resources on the HBS campus, including more than 30 faculty members and this year’s… Meet Columbia Business School’s MBA Class Of 2020 (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 11, 2018 New York City is a melting pot. Home to 200 languages, nearly 40% of the city’s population was born outside the United States. It is a city of outsiders – many starting anew – working feverishly to find their voice and carve out their space. It is also a city of fusions, where people pluck… B-School Bulletin: HBS: Diversity Boosts Profits In Venture Capital (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: October 13, 2018 News from Harvard Business School "Recent research shows for the first time that diversity in venture capital firms not only spawns creativity and alternative viewpoints, but also improves financial performance. "Paul Gompers, Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, summarizes his recent research in a new article in Harvard Business Review, 'The Other… You’d Never Believe These MBA Applicants Were Just Rejected By Harvard Business School (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 17, 2018 Only 1% of the world's GMAT test takers could claim an equal score. With a 780 on the test--50 points above the current 730 median score at Harvard Business School and 170 points higher than the newest MBA student enrolled with the lowest score--he's solidly inside the 99th percentile of everyone who has taken the… A Londoner’s MBA: Answering My MBA Questions – Two Months Into B-School (NEWS) By: Nikki Gupta | Last Updated: October 17, 2018 Nikki Gupta, originally from India, grew up in Saudi Arabia and London before starting her MBA at London Business School. She is a new recruit into the 2020 class and will be sharing snippets of her day to day on what it’s like to have a London MBA experience. It was a great day when I received… Average GMAT Scores At The Top 20 European Business Schools (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: September 14, 2023 The average GMAT score of an entering class of MBA students is typically considered one of the most valuable metrics available that measures the quality of the raw talent coming into a business school. Yet, year after year, even as the European schools have become more viable rivals to their U.S. counterparts, the best European MBA… MBA Acceptance Rates At Top European Business Schools (NEWS) By: Jeremy Hazlehurst | Last Updated: October 9, 2019 For years, the world’s MBA applicants have consistently asked the question whether the best European business school equal the best options in the U.S. The Financial Times ranking, in particular, would suggest that many of the European and Asian schools can now go toe-to-toe with the likes of Harvard, Columbia, MIT Sloan and Chicago Booth.… B-School Bulletin: SOM Narrows New Dean Pool (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: November 3, 2018 News from Yale SOM "As the search for the School of Management’s new dean reaches the interview phase, SOM community members reflect on the business school’s broader values and issues that they would like their new leader to address. "Dean Edward Snyder announced last spring that he would step down from his position after the 2018-19… European Schools Increasing MBA Intakes (NEWS) By: Jeremy Hazlehurst | Last Updated: October 11, 2019 MBA applications to European schools may be mixed, with some schools up and others down. But many of the schools have increased their intakes to record levels and several others are planning to do so. London Business School increased its MBA intake from five to six streams this year. It now takes 485 students a… Meet IESE Business School’s MBA Class Of 2020 (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 22, 2025 The case method is wrapped in mystery for many MBA candidates. It is this magical craft that trains students to become CEOs. In reality, it is the execution, as much as the methodology, that creates the alchemy. On the surface, the case method involves dissecting business ‘stories,’ judging the strategies and fateful decisions that led… Meet Harvard Business School’s MBA Class Of 2020 (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 11, 2019 The elite. That’s how many describe Harvard Business School graduates. They are the Delta Force of MBAs, painstakingly selected and rigorously trained – a unit versatile in skill and fearless amid adversity. A HBS degree confers a prestige, a seal of excellence that certifies a graduate is ready to lead. However, “leader” may not be… The Top B-Schools For Sustainability (NEWS) By: Gregory Yang | Last Updated: November 17, 2018 The Top Business Schools for Sustainability Sustainability is taking over at business schools. In recent years, MBA programs around the world have accelerated the push to teach sustainability from resource use to sustainable accounting. Corporate Knights recently released its 2018 Better World MBA Ranking—a comprehensive ranking of MBA programs on their sustainability performance. This year,… ISB May Be The Most Interesting B-School In The World (NEWS) By: Jeremy Hazlehurst | Last Updated: November 26, 2018 It's a business school with extensive links in both East and West, and one of the youngest elite schools in the world. In many ways, the Indian School of Business is arguably the most interesting business school in the world. Founded in 2001 with help from Northwestern Kellogg, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania,… Globalization In Retreat? Not For B-Schools (NEWS) By: Jeremy Hazlehurst | Last Updated: October 11, 2019 Globalization is in retreat. Protectionism is gaining ground. Right? Wrong, if business schools have anything to say about it. B-schools are bastions of free trade, the free exchange of ideas, and internationalism, and they inject this philosophy directly into the bloodstream of businesses all over the world. And despite the heated rhetoric from certain corners… A Londoner’s MBA: Making The Most Of The London Advantage (NEWS) By: Nikki Gupta | Last Updated: October 9, 2019 Nikki Gupta, originally from India, grew up in Saudi Arabia and London before starting her MBA at London Business School. She is a new recruit into the 2020 class and will be sharing snippets of her day to day on what it’s like to have a London MBA experience. It was discussed at every admissions session. I… LBS Tops Financial Times Ranking Of Best European B-Schools (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: December 3, 2018 The Financial Times has released its 2018 European business school rankings, and lest anyone assume the new list is simply FT's global rankings minus North American and Asian schools, let us enlighten you. What the FT actually does is mash together all the year's rankings — customized and open executive education programs, EMBAs, Master in… Only One International Business School Makes Businessweek’s Top 20 Global MBA Ranking (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: December 11, 2018 For the first time ever, Bloomberg Businessweek today (Dec. 11) published a global ranking of the best full-time MBA programs but the results still favor U.S. business schools. The only non-U.S. player to break into the top 20 global list is IMD, the Switzerland-based school with a small, one-year MBA offering. On the global ranking,… All The New Professors At The Leading Business Schools (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: December 19, 2018 The difference between Minneapolis and Philadelphia is a little more than a million people — as well as more than nine inches of snow and about 19 degrees Fahrenheit in December. But for Paul Nar the differences go much deeper. For him, the biggest difference is between teaching undergrad classes as a Ph.D. candidate at… Pulling Back The Curtain On India’s Top Business School (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: December 30, 2018 Think Stanford Graduate School of Business is hard to get into? Try the odds at the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad, which has an acceptance rate that makes Stanford look like community college. More than 200,000 apply every year for acceptance to IIM-A, the oldest and most highly respected B-school in India, but only 450 are accepted, says Director… $3M gift to ASU’s Carey School Establishes New Biz Chair (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: December 30, 2018 News from Arizona State University Carey School of Business "The W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University announced a generous $3 million gift from Chuck Robel to establish the Charles J. Robel Dean’s Chair in Business. "Charles J. 'Chuck' Robel is a 1971 graduate of the W. P. Carey School and a… Meet IE Business School’s MBA Class Of 2019 (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: November 27, 2019 Entrepreneurship isn’t for the faint of heart. And it isn’t just a gig to pay the bills, either. For many, starting a venture takes on an artistic – even spiritual – dimension. It is the culmination of a life’s journey, the labored lessons and deferred dreams that spark passion and steel commitment. It begins with… Average GMAT Scores At The Top 50 B-Schools (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: January 23, 2019 In 2018, Stanford came back to Earth — in one key metric, at least. Make no mistake: Stanford Graduate School of Business continues to be the world's most selective elite B-school, with a single-digit acceptance rate in the fall of 2018 for an incoming cohort that boasted an undergraduate GPA of 3.74. But as gaudy… Survey: B-Schools Should Work Together To Eradicate Poverty (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: January 29, 2019 Business as a force for good is no new concept. B-schools’ ability to make a substantial positive impact on the world’s thorniest issues has long been a matter of sometimes frustrating, occasionally fruitful discussion. Now, a new survey paints a clear picture of the levels of support among students and graduates for the apparatus of… The $100M Facelift At Thunderbird School Of Global Management (NEWS) By: Anna Shen | Last Updated: January 30, 2019 The Thunderbird School of Global Management is at the top — of one small list, at least. Last month, the Wall Street Journal ranked its Master’s in Global Management No. 1 in the world. It's a small payoff among what the school's new dean, Dr. Sanjeev Khagram, hopes will be many as the school undergoes… Johns Hopkins Carey School To Relocate To Famous Newseum Building (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: July 13, 2023 News from Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School "Johns Hopkins University has taken the first steps to relocate its Washington, D.C.-based graduate programs to a new, high-visibility home in the heart of the nation's capital, a move that better positions JHU to inform and convene national and global decision-makers and amplify the real-world impact of… MBA In Decline? Not At Top-Tier Schools (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 4, 2019 Mark Twain's famous line to a journalist inquiring about a rumor that he was on his deathbed in London can just as easily be applied these days to the many reports about the decline of interest in MBA programs. But a new analysis of data obtained from U.S. News' rankings dating back to the Class…