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Average Age & Work Experience At Top MBA Programs (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: September 14, 2023

When it comes to the ideal age to enter a highly ranked MBA program, there's little variance. Some 18 of of the 25 highest ranked MBAs in the U.S. boast an average age of exactly 28 years. The exceptions? Stanford, Harvard, Virginia Darden and Michigan Ross are just a year younger at 27, while the…

MBA Handicapping: Old, White Males With A Chance At HBS? (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: July 3, 2023

https://youtu.be/3ZKGbwmIYmU When it comes to successfully applying to an elite MBA program, Gianni checks just about all the boxes. 1. He works in manufacturing for a major semiconductor company (ie. he is not a consultant or a banker or even an engineer in a tech company). 2. He's a STEM grad twice over, with an…

Meet INSEAD’s MBA Class Of 2020 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: April 18, 2024

A lot can change in 21 months. Industries can be disrupted. New models and players can emerge. The possibilities expand with every product launch, technological breakthrough, or medical discovery. It can be agonizing to watch these opportunities pass from the sideline. That’s the cruel truth of business school: FOMO doesn’t just apply to missing out…

MBA Admission Decisions Lead To Joy, Confusion, Even Torture (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: December 17, 2019

Decisions, decisions, decisions. The past couple of weeks have seen many of the top business schools issue their round one MBA admission decisions and this year there's been an unprecedented amount of public sharing. It's a sign of the times perhaps that young people immediately take to social media to share their results and their…

Meet The CEIBS MBA Class Of 2021 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: December 21, 2019

China has come a long way in 40 years. Back then, nine-out-of-ten people lived in poverty. Today, that number has been turned upside down. In the past 30 years alone, China has lifted over 800 million people out of poverty according to the World Bank. In the past six years alone, the country has reduced…

The Top MBA Programs With The Most Women (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: January 2, 2020

Two steps forward, one step back. The march toward gender equity in full-time MBA programs is experiencing what’s called halting progress. A Poets&Quants analysis of the percentages of women at the top 25 U.S. business schools shows a mixed picture, with most of the elite schools seeing reversals of previous gains while the lower-tier schools…

What Most Surprised GMAC’s Chief In 2019 (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: December 26, 2019

When the calendar closes on 2019, Sangeet Chowfla will celebrate his seventh year as CEO of the Graduate Management Admission Council, the administrator of the GMAT test. Since taking over as chief executive on Jan. 1 of 2014 after a four-month transitional stint as president, Chowfla has witnessed a significant drop in applications to the…

Meet The Class of 2021: The Complete Collection (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: March 31, 2020

Growing up in the 80s, teenage boys gravitated towards pro wrestling. Forget the alpha patriotism of Hulk Hogan. It was the heels who made us tune in on Saturday mornings. And there was no better villain than the “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase. Patterned after Ivan Boesky, DiBiase personified the “Lifestyles of the Rich and…

INSEAD Claims First For Fifth Time In A Row (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: May 8, 2020

Outside the U.S., INSEAD has become the MBA program to beat. For the fifth consecutive year, the school with campuses in three regions of the world has captured first place for its full-time MBA experience in Poets&Quants' tenth annual ranking of the best international business schools. In the past ten years, in fact, INSEAD has…

Darden Professor Lalin Anik

MBA Professor Of The Year: Darden’s Lalin Anik (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 7, 2020

The very first time that Lalin Anik walked into a classroom to teach the core marketing course to a group of first-year MBA students, she was admittedly a nervous wreck. She had done everything she possibly could to prep for the experience at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. She knew every nuance…

Outside The U.S., Applications Rise For MBA Programs (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: January 23, 2020

Applications to business schools in the United States are famously slumping. Now we have a better picture of where the talent is going instead. New research shows that demand for MBA programs has grown internationally at business schools accredited by the Association of MBAs, with applications increasing by 9% between 2017 and 2018. AMBA’s Application and…

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Harvard Nudges Aside Stanford For Top Honors In Financial Times’ Ranking (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 27, 2020

Even as applications to the most elite business schools in the U.S. continue to fall while interest in European MBA options rise to record levels, the big brand American MBA programs continue to dominate the most consulted global ranking of MBA programs. In this year's newly updated Financial Times list, Harvard Business School nudges aside…

Ten Biggest Surprises In The Financial Times 2020 MBA Ranking (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt & John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 29, 2020

MBA rankings trigger a good deal of anxiety among the senior leadership teams at most business schools. After all, a big rise up or a scary fall down can immediately impact everything from the number of candidates who apply to a program to the number of alumni who give back to the school. This year's…

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Is This The World’s Best Master’s In Management? (NEWS)

By: Jeremy Hazlehurst | Last Updated: February 4, 2020

When potential students begin their search for master’s in management programs, the first place many come across is the University of St Gallen in Switzerland. The reason is simple: for the past nine years, the Swiss university has topped the Financial Times’ list of MiMs, above such stellar players as Paris’s HEC and London Business…

Francesca Cornelli, dean of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management

Kellogg’s New Dean On Preparing MBAs For A Disruptive Future (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 24, 2020

If there's one thing that worries the new dean of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, it's that she might not fulfill the promise of the job she began six months ago. "I just hope I will do it justice," says Dean Francesca Cornelli in an endearing Italian accent. "They gave me such a precious…

Tips For Summer Internship Interviews (NEWS)

By: Greg Yang | Last Updated: February 8, 2020

Tips for Internship Interviews The internship experience is an integral part of an MBA education. But how exactly can an MBA best prepare for a summer internship interview? Career coaches from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business recently offered a few tips for interview success. RESEARCH, RESEARCH, RESEARCH Experts say research is a…

MBA Scholarships At Record Levels, With Awards As High As $200K (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 28, 2021

By any measure, this young female professional hit the scholarship jackpot. Admitted to seven of the world's top MBA programs, she applied early in round one, with a 740 GMAT score and a 3.6-grade point average on her engineering degree from a liberal arts school on the east coast. She is a caucasian, from the…

The Top MBA Admissions Trends (NEWS)

By: Greg Yang | Last Updated: March 30, 2020

The Top MBA Admissions Trends The MBA is changing. Last year, P&Q did a study of preliminary Class of 2021 profile data and found that for the second consecutive year even the highest-ranked business schools in the U.S. are seeing significant declines in full-time MBA applications, with many MBA programs experiencing double-digit drops. But how…

Why Darden’s Professors Are The Best MBA Teachers On The Planet (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 18, 2020

It is a lazy Sunday afternoon in Charlottesville, Va. People are out and about under a brilliant sun on a postcard-perfect day. But inside a second-story conference room on the campus of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, a handful of professors are hard at work. They're preparing to teach their…

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Stanford’s Strebulaev: Tech Unicorns’ Valuations Are Fairy Tales (NEWS)

By: Howard R. Gold | Last Updated: September 13, 2023

In myth and legend, unicorns were horse-like creatures whose single horns were supposed to have magical powers. Many children believe in them, but few adults do. Venture capitalists, however, are an exception, although the kinds of unicorns they believe in produce money in legendary proportions: In Silicon Valley, a unicorn is any venture-backed private company…

World’s Best Case Writers, Teachers Named In 30th Annual Awards (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: February 24, 2020

It has been called the case method community's annual "Oscars" — and, like the Academy Awards, it has been criticized for a lack of diversity. But unlike the Oscars, the Case Centre Awards and Competitions may be turning that reputation around, if this year's results are any indication. In the 10 years since the Case Awards grew…

Wharton Names New Dean: Emory’s Erika James (NEWS)

By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: March 4, 2020

The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania announced today (February 26) that Erika James will become the school's next dean, effective July 1. James, 50, who has been dean at Emory University's Goizueta Business School since July 2014, becomes the first person of color and the first woman dean in Wharton's 139-year history. The…

Meet The MiM7+1: The Top European Master In Management Programs (NEWS)

By: Jeremy Hazlehurst | Last Updated: March 2, 2020

The world of American business schools is dominated by the so-called Magnificent Seven, or M7, of top MBA programs. In Europe, the Master in Management, or MiM, is the most important business education program. Potential students have dozens to choose from, so how do they start their search? To help, we have selected the MiM7,…

The Disruptors: Jolt, Home Of The NAMBA — ‘Not An MBA’ (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: March 3, 2020

As the traditional MBA struggles, new players arise to take its place. We call them the Disruptors. This is the second in an ongoing series about who they are, what they have achieved, and what they are planning; see our first installment here. Roei Deutsch started his first company at 14. At 16, he sold…

The 25 Most Popular MBA Watch Applicants (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: March 31, 2020

It's been a month since MBA Watch debuted at Poets&Quants. In that time, more than 90,000 different users have participated in the social platform for MBA applicants which has racked up well over a quarter of a million views. That's not surprising. After all, it's a safe place to share your profile and get immediate…

This MBA Program Wants To Be Europe’s First To Reach Gender Parity (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: March 27, 2020

Forty-four percent is a very respectable number when it comes to the proportion of women in a full-time MBA program. Forty-four percent is higher than all but three of the top programs in the United States and all but one of the major programs in Europe. It's higher than Harvard Business School. It's higher than…

The Latest: How Coronavirus Has Changed 2020 MBA Admissions (NEWS)

By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: October 6, 2020

As the novel coronavirus COVID-19 spreads around the globe, many countries have closed standardized testing centers where MBA applicants would otherwise be taking GMAT and GRE exams. As a result, many schools are altering the deadlines and procedures for late-round MBA applications. Delaying Round 3 and Round 4 deadlines, or beginning to review applications without…

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