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Meet Stanford GSB’s MBA Class Of 2020 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 8, 2019

Leaders often harken back to a Golden Age, a “shining city upon a hill” defined by innovation, fairness, and prosperity. For some, that age was the Renaissance. Born out of the Black Plague, the Renaissance shook off religion’s clutches on arts and science. As Copernicus and Galileo mapped the galaxy, Leonardo da Vinci was sketching…

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Yale SOM’s Ted Snyder On The Durability Of The M7, MBA Application Declines & More (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 24, 2019

After eight years as dean of Yale University’s School of Management and a total of 20 years as the dean of top U.S. schools, Edward ‘Ted’ Snyder will leave the job this Friday surprised and perhaps somewhat frustrated by just one thing: the remarkable durability of the top seven MBA programs. Though he led Yale…

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Americans In Europe: What It’s Like To Get An MBA Abroad (NEWS)

By: Jeremy Hazlehurst | Last Updated: June 26, 2019

If the MBA is about anything, it is about broadening your horizons. Yet most Americans stay in their home country for their MBA. They could be missing a trick. Europe is crammed with quality schools that offer top-class MBAs. Here are three great reasons that more Americans should consider hopping the pond. 1) European schools…

2019-2020 MBA Admissions Events Schedule (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: July 8, 2019

‘The first step is always the hardest.’ From halftime speeches to PowerPoints, the ‘first step’ is the go-to proverb to stir the room and kick off a comeback. That’s the intent, at least. In reality, it has become a tired cliché, a call to action for the tired and jaded who’d rather be somewhere else.…

Handicapping Your MBA Odds: When Docs Want To Get An MBA (NEWS)

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

https://youtu.be/PZgKI2PiIUY Steven is no ordinary doctor. He's a senior resident in pediatric surgery in Australia who wants an MBA degree. With a 710 GMAT score and three years as a doctor, he wants to learn the business basics so that he can land a management job in the health care field. He also has more…

‘Almost Unheard Of’: Meet The H/S/W Admit Who Didn’t Come From IIT (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: July 26, 2019

It is rare for any MBA applicant to gain simultaneous admission to Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, three of the world's most prestigious — and exclusive — business schools. (We tend to write about it when it happens.) It's rarer still for someone…

How To Get An Employer To Pay For Your MBA (NEWS)

By: Gregory Yang | Last Updated: August 10, 2019

How To Get Employers To Sponsor Your MBA The MBA is an expensive investment. There’s no doubt about it. For many, employee sponsorship can offer a cheaper option to fund the degree. Andriana Mitrakos, of Legal Reader, recently discussed how MBA applicants can convince their company to fund the MBA. “How can you avoid paying…

Top 50 Consulting Firms To Work For In 2020 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: September 14, 2023

Three is a sacred number. For many, three represents unity: the past, present, and future and the beginning, middle, and end. There are three primary colors and three sides to a triangle. Magically, you can always come home if you click your heels three times – or enjoy good luck when you find a three-leaf…

Meet the MBA Class of 2021: The Go-Getters (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 24, 2019

‘You’ll never amount to anything more than an average C student.’ That’s what Elizabeth Breiter’s 5th-grade teacher once told her. On the surface, you could say it was the jaundiced judgment of a burned out teacher. For Breiter, a second-generation immigrant, it was a wake-up call – one that would “ignite” a drive to reach…

Wharton’s Carton: CEOs Have Real Vision Problems (NEWS)

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

Bill Gates of Microsoft wanted to put a computer on every desk and in every home. Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos aimed “to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.” Those are just two examples of clear visions from leaders who communicated where they wanted…

Kellogg vs. Booth: The Ultimate Smackdown (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 1, 2019

Years ago, the differences between Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business were far more dramatic than they are today. Kellogg was the school for poets, the place where teamwork and collaboration in an MBA program were invented, and the best place to study marketing and land…

U.K. Reinstates Two-Year Work Visas For International Students (NEWS)

By: Jeremy Hazlehurst | Last Updated: September 11, 2019

International students who graduate from UK universities or business schools with a bachelors or a master’s degree -- which of course includes MBAs and business-related MAs -- will now be allowed to stay in the country for two years after graduation to look for work, the government has announced. Under the current visa regime, overseas…

The Best MBA Alumni Networks (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: September 14, 2023

Your business school is your brand. It conveys your values and guides your mission. More than an identity, your alma mater is a shared experience that connects past, present, and future students. That’s why the MBA is more than just a degree. It is an unspoken agreement to pay it forward, to open the same…

Gies’ iMBA: The Fastest Growing MBA On The Planet (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: March 20, 2020

Within minutes of starting his class. Hayden Noel gets right into the face of one of his MBA students with an abrupt cold call. “I say Volvo. What do you say?,” shouts the highly animated Noel, little more than three feet away from the MBA’s face. “Safety,” responds Troy Fey, the vice president of technology…

Wharton Tumbles In Forbes’ 2019 MBA Ranking (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: September 18, 2019

What goes up must come down. That rather ancient maxim wasn't meant to apply to MBA rankings but it certainly holds true for Wharton's performance in Forbes new 2019 return-on-investment ranking of the best MBA programs. After capturing first place two years ago on the biennial list, its highest ever showing in Forbes, the University…

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Meet The HEC Paris MBA Class Of 2021 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: September 20, 2019

Us vs. Them. That’s history in a nutshell. It is a story of encounters with “the others.” Many times, these engagements resulted in war and exploitation. Periodically, these differences stirred imaginations and exposed common ground. Ultimately, these connections sparked a surge in wealth and knowledge. This is the hallmark of diversity. It comes in many…

Madrid’s IE To Launch Europe’s First Tech MBA (NEWS)

By: Jeremy Hazlehurst | Last Updated: September 20, 2019

IE Business School, based in Madrid, Spain, has announced the launch of Europe’s first "Tech MBA," a one-year course aimed at those with strong STEM backgrounds who want to work in technology companies or seek tech-related positions in other sectors. The program, slated to begin in September 2020, will include courses on subjects like artificial…

Meet Yale SOM’s MBA Class Of 2021 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: January 2, 2020

Purpose. Calling. Vocation. Passion. They are words you'll often hear from the MBA students in the Class of 2021 at Yale School of Management. So is the word mission. It is an end that reflects impact and defines legacy. It can take the form of a venture launched or community served. For mission-driven MBAs, the…

Meet Northwestern Kellogg’s MBA Class Of 2021 (NEWS)

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

‘Talent wins games, but teams win championships.’ Most CEO’s trumpet this line. In business, the team represents the long-term and big picture, where the sum bests the parts and the whole trumps the individual. In teams, experts say, you can churn out more ideas, explore different angles, and remove blind spots. The result: more inclusive…

Meet The Rice Jones MBA Class Of 2021 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: December 28, 2019

Rice on the rise. In a year when MBA applications plunged at just about every U.S. business school, the Jones Graduate School of Business experienced a surge – joining the University of Chicago as the only Top 25 MBA programs that increased applications. Of course, Rice has long been an ascendant program. It is the…

FT’s New MiM Ranking Begs The Question: Where Are The U.S. Programs? (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: October 30, 2019

The Financial Times released its 2019 ranking of Master in Management programs Sunday (October 27), and two familiar schools sit at the top, with the University of St. Gallen of Switzerland claiming the number-one berth for the ninth straight time and HEC Paris landing number two for the sixth consecutive year. The most striking thing about…

Big Surprises In Topsy-Turvy 2019 Economist MBA Ranking (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: November 4, 2019

The University of Chicago's Booth School of Business captured top honors for the second consecutive year in The Economist's newest ranking of the world's best MBA programs. For Booth, it's the seventh time the school has topped the British magazine list in the past nine years, a streak interrupted only by the Kellogg School of…

Ten Biggest Surprises In The Economist’s 2019 MBA Ranking (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne & Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: November 8, 2019

Another year, another list. The Economist's 2019 MBA ranking represents the 18th time the British magazine has trotted out a list of the best full-time MBA programs in the world. So what are the biggest takeaways in 2019? What really surprised us? What make us shrug our shoulders and even laugh? As usual, there is…

Meet Toronto Rotman’s MBA Class Of 2021 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: May 27, 2020

“That person has leadership potential.” We’ve all heard that line. What exactly does it mean? In some quarters, that might mean that a candidate is easy to control and capable of being “molded.” In most cases, a candidate will exhibit that glimmer of promise by being proactive, determined, accountable, or simply engaging. These days, leadership…

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Meet One Of Darden’s Superstar Professors (NEWS)

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

https://youtu.be/u1e2thA8mns Lalin Anik was all of 19 years of age when she felt the first inkling that perhaps she would like to devote her life to teaching. At the time, in 2004, she was a research lab assistant for a marketing professor at the London Business School. Fast forward 15 years later and Anik is…

Meet Carnegie Mellon Tepper’s MBA Class Of 2021 (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: November 20, 2019

It is hard to ignore the symbolism. In 2018, the Tepper School of Business opened its $201 million dollar “Tepper Quad” smack dab in the middle of the Carnegie Mellon University campus. Standing five stories and covering 315,000 square feet, the Tepper Quadrangle has emerged as the campus hub – a place where students and…

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Fortuna Admissions possesses unique insider knowledge of how admissions committees work, because we have been the gatekeepers in the admissions offices of top business schools. Our entire team comprises of former business school professionals from top-tier institutions including Wharton, INSEAD, Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB, London Business School, Chicago Booth, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, IE…

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