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By: wpengine | Last Updated: November 2, 2021

The NU Singapore MBA: What You Need To Know The world’s only true, sovereign city-state, Singapore is home to just 5 million people but punches well above its weight in many respects. It has a complex and diverse history, with numerous empires sweeping through over the centuries, leaving it with four official languages — English,…

A PEEK At Harvard B-School Opens The Door To An MBA For Young Women (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 29, 2015

When the first message announcing a Harvard Business School event popped into her email box, Emily London quickly trashed it. London, a 19-year-old sophomore at Barnard College majoring in middle eastern studies, receives dozens of invites to different events. Given her passions and interests, she had no interest in business school, even one especially put…

Cambridge Judge Business School: ‘Go Out & Do Something Extraordinary’ (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: July 1, 2015

When Christoph H. Loch was named dean of the University of Cambridge Judge Business School in 2011, the school’s 12-month-long MBA program was ranked 26th best in the world by The Financial Times. In his inaugural blog post as dean, Loch wrote about “the lessons of the latest FT MBA rankings” at the suggestion of…

The MBA Gatekeeper At Duke’s Fuqua School (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: October 11, 2019

After more than 20 years in admissions at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, Liz Riley Hargrove has seen virtually every way an applicant can succeed or fail. There are the plagiarists, who submit others' work in spite of a warning on the school's website that application materials go through anti-plagiarism software. There are the essay…

The Most Surprising Things About Business School (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: July 13, 2015

In business, most people hate surprises. They associate them with missed deadlines and cost overruns, overhauling plans and working weekends. So they do everything in their power to reduce risk. Applicants employ that same mindset in choosing a business school. They scrutinize every internet thread or grill peers and alumni about their experience. While they…

Essential Business MOOCs In August (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: July 28, 2015

It’s surreal to look back on business twenty years ago. Back then, employees railed against their short-sighted overlords, who lived-and-died by their quarterly numbers. Business cycles were measured in years. And few could wrap their arms around this “internet” thing. Fast forward to today. Armed with more information and options, customers control the process. Their…

Forbes’ 2015 Ranking Of U.S. Schools (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: September 9, 2015

Yale University's School of Management continued its upward momentum in the rankings by rising seven places to finish 11th in the new biennial ranking of the best MBA programs published today (Sept. 9) by Forbes magazine. UC-Berkeley's Haas School of Business and The University of Texas' McCombs School also scored substantial gains, rising six and…

Best Free MOOCs In Business For October (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: September 29, 2015

You had to know the time was coming. The proposition always seemed too good to be true. Free courses taught by renowned faculty? How could they afford that? Indeed, MOOCs democratized higher education. Whether you hailed from Taipei or Toronto, you only needed an internet connection to join. Rich or poor, you weren’t required to…

The New Faculty Faces At The Top Business Schools (NEWS)

By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: October 10, 2019

When Lalin Anik was growing up she wanted to be a professional athlete. To be clear, this wasn’t like the uncoordinated kid bouncing the basketball off his foot in the 4th grade YMCA League. Anik was good. For more than a decade she competed for the Turkish National Swim Team in her native Istanbul. She won championships…

Harvard Business School Tops Bloomberg Businessweek 2015 Ranking (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 20, 2015

For the first time since Businessweek started rating MBA programs in 1988, the Harvard Business School jumped into the No. 1 position of its influential ranking published today (Oct. 20). Oddly, Harvard switched places with Duke University's Fuqua School of Business which ranked first last year. HBS rose seven spots, while Fuqua slid seven places…

Harvard MBAs Doubled Their Income In Six Years — How Did Your School Do? (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 21, 2015

There's only one business school in the world where MBA graduates doubled their starting compensation six to eight years later. Guess which one it is? Harvard Business School. Among the wealth of data collected by Bloomberg Businessweek for its 2015 ranking of full-time MBA programs, the most compelling of all is the compensation figures for…

Alumni Love: The B-Schools Getting A Little Sugar Or Taking Their Lumps (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 28, 2015

For the first time since ranking MBA programs in 1988, Bloomberg Businessweek added an entirely new component to its list of the best: an extensive survey of MBA alumni. The magazine asked graduates from the classes of 2007, 2008 and 2009 how their MBA degrees impacted their careers, their boost in pay since getting the…

The MBA Gatekeepers At Columbia Business School (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: November 3, 2015

There’s not a smiley face on the door to the Columbia Business School admissions office, but there might as well be. It may come as a surprise that one of the most renowned business schools in the world puts a heavy emphasis on a quality so soft as a personable manner, but to the admissions committee,…

Meet IE Business School’s Class of 2016 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: November 11, 2015

“Practice makes perfect.” That’s great advice for mastering the violin – and even better for starting a business. At Spain’s IE Business School, students get plenty of practice with startups. The school was actually founded by entrepreneurs. Among alumni and students, as the joke goes, IE is said to stand for “innovation” and “entrepreneurship.” And…

Harvard Business School Tops New 2015 Poets&Quants’ MBA Ranking (NEWS)

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

When Facebook's Libby Leffler concluded that she wanted to apply to business school, she made one big decision: To apply to Harvard Business School and not to another famous school less than two miles away from Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Ultimately, she was drawn to the East Coast by the HBS alumni she…

The Forté Route To Business School (NEWS)

By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: November 24, 2015

When Janelle Marshall graduated from Duke University in 2008, like so many other graduates, she was thrust into an unkind economy. Armed with a degree in sociology and a certificate in markets and management, she bounced around from internship to internship before settling on a customer service role with Citigroup. “I thought I was going to…

Best Free MOOCs In Business For December (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: November 24, 2015

Looking back, the 2008 financial crisis seems so long ago. Much of the wealth lost has been recovered. And the hundreds-of-thousands who lost their jobs have moved on. But the event was a reminder of just how powerless we truly are against larger global economic forces. Sure, we learned the value of transparency and regulation…

The Best B-Schools For Teaching Excellence (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: September 11, 2023

The Best Business Schools For Teaching For some b-school applicants, the decision comes down to hard facts like costs, starting salaries, and placement rates. Others look at fuzzier metrics like the caliber of an alumni network or a particular specialization. In the end, all students return to campus for one reason – to learn.…

Our Favorite B-School Professors of 2015 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 4, 2019

As undergraduates, many of us were anxious around our professors. We believed their grades controlled our fates. And their red marks were devastating reminders that we weren’t quite as smart as we assumed. Fast forward to business school and suddenly our teachers are no longer these distant authority figures. After spending years mingling with senior…

Best & Brightest Class Of 2016 Business Majors (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 7, 2019

Come summer, MBAs will be venturing across the world to their dream jobs. But they won’t be the only climbers looking to make their mark. In fact, there is a good chance that MBA graduates will be managing these very people. They are the undergrad business majors who’ll be streaming out to the workforce. In…

Top Ten Business School Rankings of 2015 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 10, 2019

Everyone hates rankings. Critics claim they fail to measure the right data. Others say they're simply rigged. And why stack anything up if you’re just going to knock it all down? However valid, such criticisms miss the point of the widely tracked lists that are the obsession of applicants, students, alumni and administrators. Rankings are…

Digital Badges Make A B-School Debut (NEWS)

By: Alison Damast | Last Updated: January 4, 2016

Steven Olson and Daniel Stotz are part of a small team of professors and staff at the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University that has earned the nickname “The Beatles” for their work on a new digital badge program for students and executives. For much of the last six months, they’ve been holed…

Specialized Master’s Programs At 100 Top Business Schools (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: January 18, 2016

Ka-ching! That's the sound of one of the fastest-growing sectors in business education, the specialized master's degree. For schools, non-MBA master's programs can be a license to print money. For students, the degrees can be a license to save money - then print it. Among the adaptations forced upon business schools by 21st Century realities, the rise of specialty…

MBA Salaries Rise 7.5% At London B-School (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 19, 2016

Median base salaries for London Business School's Class of 2015 rose by 7.5% to $117,596 (£75,276) from $109,354 (£70,000) a year earlier, the school reported today (Jan. 19) in its 2015 employment report. LBS' median is significantly below both Harvard and Stanford ($130,000) and many other U.S. schools, but that's partly the result of a weaker…

Best Free MOOCs In Business For February (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: January 22, 2016

It’s easy to start something – but not so easy to sustain it. That’s the first lesson every entrepreneur learns. Early success may be a blessing, but it comes with gut-wrenching risks and tradeoffs. If you need to add employees to nourish growth, that requires new processes and infrastructure to organize your operation. Thinking about…

How Recruiters Rank Business Schools By Industry & Skill Set (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: February 16, 2016

Every recruiter carries a mental list of their favorite schools. They won’t admit to that, of course. But they know which schools share their values, screen out miscast candidates, and nurture the right attitudes and aptitudes for their company culture. Sure, every program develops standouts – but few can consistently produce the best and brightest…

Wharton Repeats As Top Research School (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: February 17, 2016

“Publish or perish.” That’s the measuring stick in academia. Right or wrong, research – the creation of knowledge – is the engine that drives tenure and confers prestige in many programs. When it comes to business research, Wharton has been the undisputed champion. For over a decade, Wharton has headlined the annual Top 100 Business…

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