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Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management (NEWS)

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

34. University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management 321 Nineteenth Avenue South Carlson School of Management, Suite 1-110 Minneapolis, MN 55455 Admissions: 612-625-5555 Email: ftmba@umn.edu Website: http://www.csom.umn.edu/MBA/ Apply Online: http://www.csom.umn.edu/MBA/full-time/admissions/apply.html Admission Deadlines for Class of 2014: Round One: 12/1/11 Round Two: 2/1/12 (Final deadline for international applicants) Round Three: 4/1/12 The Carlson program combines case…

University of Washington’s Foster School of Business (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 5, 2019

23. University of Washington Michael G. Foster School of Business Box 353200, Mackenzie Hall Room 110 Seattle, Washington 98195 Admissions: 206-543-5803 Email: mba@u.washington.edu Website: http://www.foster.washington.edu/academic/mba/Pages/mba.aspx Apply Online: http://www.foster.washington.edu/academic/mba/Pages/Step4ApplyandInterview.aspx Strategic thinking, leadership, and global business underlie the Foster MBA core curriculum. In just under two years, the program offers five core courses, one leadership development course,…

Arizona State’s Carey School of Business (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: December 21, 2010

41. Arizona State University W.P. Carey School of Business PO Box 871003 Tempe AZ 85287 Admissions: 480-965-6113 Email: wpcareymba@asu.edu Website: http://wpcarey.asu.edu/mba/full-time/index.cfm Apply Online: https://webapp4.asu.edu/dgsadmissions/Index.jsp Application Deadlines for the Class of 2017: Early Decision -- October 1, 2014 Priority Consideration -- November 26, 2014 International Deadline -- February 2, 2015 Scholarship and Final Deadline -- April…

Thunderbird School of Global Management (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: December 21, 2010

51. Thunderbird School of Global Management 1 Global Place Glendale, Arizona 85306 Admissions: 602-978-7100 Email: admissions@thunderbird.edu Website: http://www.thunderbird.edu/graduate_degrees/full_time_mba/index.htm Apply Online: http://www.thunderbird.edu/graduate_degrees/learn_more_about/apply_to_thunderbird.htm With Thunderbird’s MBA in Global Management, students get a truly global perspective and a comprehensive understanding of global markets. Every MBA-Global Management course offers a global focus. It's not just marketing, but global marketing.…

What’s in Store for B-Schools in 2011 (NEWS)

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

News deans at Harvard, Kellogg, Chicago, and INSEAD. A boom in MBA admissions consulting. The debut of a new prestige MBA program at Johns Hopkins University. The first revamping of Wharton’s MBA curriculum in 17 years. It has been a big year in graduate business education. After a two-year slide due to an economic implosion…

U.K. B-Schools May Become Less Attractive to Applicants (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 24, 2011

Over the past decade, Britain has become a magnet for business school students from around the world seeking a top quality MBA degree. While London Business School leads the pack in offering an elite MBA in Britain, greater recognition of Cranfield and Manchester along with the entrance of Cambridge and Oxford into the business school…

B-School Deans Who Tweet On And Off The Job (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 2, 2019

When leadership professor Nitin Nohria took over his job as dean of the Harvard Business School on July 1, his enthusiasm bubbled over into his Twitter feed. At exactly 8:57 a.m. on his first day, he tapped out this message to his followers: “My first day as Dean of HBS! I am honored, humbled, and…

Inside IE Business School’s Global Online MBA (NEWS)

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

Tony Hodson had been working as a consultant in Accenture’s Washington, D.C., office for nearly seven years when he decided to go for his MBA. He didn’t want to quit the job he loved, however, or go heavily into debt to finance his education. And because his work experience largely dealt with the federal government,…

2011 Financial Times Ranking of the Best B-Schools (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 31, 2011

London Business School and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School are locked in a first place tie in the new 2011 global MBA rankings published by the Financial Times today (Jan. 31). Wharton scratched its way into the tie after being in second place last year when London was the sole winner in the widely-watched…

The Best 40 B-School Profs Under the Age of 40 (NEWS)

By: Andrea Carter | Last Updated: February 15, 2011

What does it take to be a great teacher of business? Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Van Doren once mused that “the art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” That’s an art that our 40 top business school professors under the age of 40 share with each other. They draw students into often esoteric…

Reviewing “Ahead of the Curve” on Harvard Business School (NEWS)

By: Just-Ship | Last Updated: April 17, 2011

I recently finished Ahead of the Curve, a real-life account of the author’s two years at Harvard Business School. As I hoped, the book contains a thoughtful, honest and seemingly balanced assessment of the merits of attending business school and its potential role in the pursuit of a fulfilling life and career. Thankfully, the book mostly…

The B-School Dean Who Didn’t Want To Be Dean (NEWS)

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

“If you're a top leader, you need to understand that your words and your behavior set the tone, the culture, and the values within your organization. If you seem distant and detached, the organization will take on the aura of a rudderless ship. Your middle managers will be without guidance and will probably perform poorly,…

Does The World Need Another B-School Ranking? (NEWS)

By: Neelima Mahajan-Bansal | Last Updated: October 3, 2019

A few years ago, Hasan Pirkul came across an article ranking the operations management departments of different universities. Pirkul, the Turkish-born dean of the School of Management at University of Texas at Dallas, thought the ranking was incomplete but it got him thinking. What if he could compile a database ranking various business schools…

New Dean at Purdue’s Krannert School (NEWS)

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

P. Christopher Earley is the latest business school dean to play musical chairs. Currently head of the University of Connecticut’s B-school, Earley is taking the dean’s job at Purdue University's Krannert School of Management, the school announced today (June 14). Earley won the job over three other finalists who spoke at open forums on the…

Can the Indian School of Business Become a Global Top Five B-School? (NEWS)

By: Neelima Mahajan-Bansal | Last Updated: October 3, 2019

Ajit Rangnekar, the mild-mannered dean of the Hyderabad-based Indian School of Business, is eagerly looking forward to April 2012 when India’s premier business school will launch its second campus in Mohali. A big bet for the school, the Mohali campus will mark the beginning of the second chapter of ISB’s unusual story. In some ways,…

Forbes 2011 Ranking of Global B-Schools (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: August 5, 2011

IMD edged out INSEAD in Forbes new 2011 biennial MBA ranking of one-year programs outside the U.S., while London Business School retained its No. 1 ranking in Forbes' list of one-year international MBA programs. Forbes also added one extra school on each list, expanding them to a dozen each from 11 two years ago. The…

Top Feeder Schools To Wharton’s MBA Program (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: August 26, 2023

Top 25 Feeder Colleges For Wharton's Class of 2013 If you have your heart set on getting into Wharton's MBA program, it will help if you went to an elite undergraduate school. In fact, it would really help if you did your undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania. The largest single group of students…

How To Reapply To Business School (NEWS)

By: Chioma Isiadinso | Last Updated: August 7, 2011

Not being accepted to business school when you first apply can strike hard, filling you with doubt, uncertainty and fear about trying again. I want to reassure you that success can still be yours when you reapply. Of course, success comes with careful reflection and self-evaluation so that your next round of applications stands out…

A Chinese B-School’s Quest for Global Fame (NEWS)

By: Neelima Mahajan-Bansal | Last Updated: October 3, 2019

When renowned marketing and branding expert John Quelch took over as dean of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), he created his own theory of brand building for the Shanghai-based business school. In line with marketing guru Philip Kotler’s Four Ps, Quelch calls his theory for CEIBS the ‘Four Fs’. “These days, I spend…

Top Feeder Companies to Columbia B-School (NEWS)

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

Columbia Business School seems to love MBA applicants from Deloitte Consulting. The Big Four consulting firm, a major recruiter of MBAs, has the largest single contingent of students among this year’s incoming MBA candidates: nearly 5% of the Class of 2013. Deloitte has placed big elsewhere this year. The firm has sent the fifth largest…

Top Feeder Companies To The Tuck School (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: September 15, 2011

Where’s McKinsey? Bain? BCG? Morgan Stanley? J.P. Morgan? Not in Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business Class of 2013, according to an analysis of the class’s Facebook page by Poets&Quants. Commonly among the half dozen prestige firms that send vast numbers of MBA candidates to top business schools, they are surprisingly absent from the top…

2011 Economist Ranking of the Best B-Schools (NEWS)

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

Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business displaced the University of Chicago’s Booth School to capture first place in the 2011 ranking of full-time MBA programs by The Economist today (Oct. 13). Switzerland-based IMD came in third, while the University of Virginia’s Darden School moved into fourth place just ahead of No. 5 Harvard Business School. Darden…

An Interview With Nitin Nohria, Dean of the Harvard Business School (NEWS)

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

Nitin Nohria is the Dean of the Harvard Business School. Prior to becoming Harvard’s tenth dean on July 1 of 2010, he served as a beloved professor at the school and was co-chair of its Leadership Initiative and head of the school’s Organizational Behavior unit. He has been a member of the HBS faculty since…

London MBA Lands Highest Salary Of 2011 (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 22, 2022

A student from the London Business School has landed what is likely to be highest starting salary of the year for a graduating MBA: a whopping $552,681-a-year job in the corporate sector in Australia. That sum easily beats the highest reported salary by a Class of 2011 MBA in the U.S. A Wharton graduate won…

New Dean Has Big Ambitions For Oxford’s Young B-School (NEWS)

By: Mica Bevington | Last Updated: February 22, 2022

"I see as much potential here as I did there.” Peter Tufano is describing his plans for his first-ever deanship. And here happens to be Oxford University’s 15-year-old Saïd Business School, where 248 students work toward an MBA in a year, under the guise of about 60 faculty. There is Harvard Business School, Tufano’s training…

The Ultimate Ranking: School Rejection Rates (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 22, 2022

Now that most of this year’s pool of MBA candidates have completed their applications are are axiously awaiting a verdict, it may provide some comfort to know that business schools get rejected, too--by applicants. In fact, it may surprise you to know that more than half the applicants accepted to such prestige schools such as…

2012 Financial Times Ranking of the Best B-Schools (NEWS)

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

For the first time in the 14 years that The Financial Times has ranked full-time MBA programs, Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business captured first place in the British newspaper’s new 2012 global MBA ranking published today (Jan. 30). Stanford pushed aside both the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and London Business School,…