Search Results for: london business school (3439 results found) The Top 50 Management Thinkers (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: January 6, 2016 It wasn’t the “Thrilla in Manila,” but a bout between two Harvard heavyweights grabbed headlines this summer nonetheless. In one corner, you had Clayton Christensen, the dean of disruption, who slammed HBX for being conventional and vulnerable. Across the ring, he faced off with Michael Porter, the father of the five forces, who stressed a steady… INSEAD Tops Financial Times Ranking (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 24, 2016 Move over Harvard, Stanford, Wharton and London Business School. For the first time ever, INSEAD with its campuses in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi has claimed top honors in the Financial Times 2016 global MBA ranking out today (Jan. 25). INSEAD's 10-month MBA program rose three places to capture No. 1 bragging rights in the… Why INSEAD’s Time Has Finally Come (NEWS) By: Caroline Diarte Edwards | Last Updated: January 24, 2016 INSEAD’s number one spot in the Financial Times' ranking has been a long time coming. In the 18 years that this ranking has been published, the top spot has been held only by Harvard, Stanford, Wharton and London Business School. As INSEAD’s Director of Admissions, Marketing and External Relations from 2005 to 2012, I… Has The One-Year MBA Come Of Age? (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 25, 2016 There's a startling revelation for those reading the tea leaves in today's 2016 Financial Times MBA ranking: The rise of the one-year MBA program. For the first time ever, a 10-month MBA program topped the FT list with INSEAD's No. 1 showing. INSEAD invented the one-year MBA format more than half a century ago, and… Della Bradshaw Leaving The Financial Times (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 26, 2016 Della Bradshaw, who pioneered the coverage of management education at the Financial Times as its business education editor, is leaving the British newspaper after completing her 18th ranking of the world’s best MBA programs. Bradshaw, who originated the FT’s highly influential ranking in 1999, is uncertain about her next act. “I am thinking about a… M/B/B Hire Nearly 28% Of INSEAD MBAs (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 30, 2016 INSEAD is quickly becoming the business school for consultants. The percentage of INSEAD’s graduates who accepted jobs with consulting firms last year reached 43%, up nearly ten percentage points from two years ago and a couple of points higher than in 2014. With the sole exception of Amazon, six of INSEAD’s top seven employers last… Best MBAs For I-Banking Jobs (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: February 2, 2016 In real estate, the mantra is “location, location, location!” If you want to secure a coveted spot in an investment bank, it pays to study on the American east coast. That was a recent finding from efinancial careers. In their bi-annual rankings for finding front office jobs in top investment banks, five of the top… Highest & Lowest Paid MBAs of 2015 (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 8, 2016 When it came to nosebleed numbers, Columbia Business School graduates put on an impressive show in 2015. The highest reported compensation of any MBA came from the New York school for a graduate who got a job in private equity. The MBA reported other guaranteed compensation--not including base or signing bonus--of $467,000. That's over 50%… LBS Launches Leadership Institute (NEWS) By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: October 3, 2019 London Business School announced the launch of its cross-discipline Leadership Institute last Wednesday (February 3). Drawing in faculty from organizational behavior, economics and marketing, the new institute will focus on developing leaders who appeal to the heart as well as the head. "That's exactly the point," says Randall Peterson, a professor of organizational behavior and… ASU Hosts First Social Enterprise Competition (NEWS) By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: February 12, 2016 Last Thursday (February 4) was a day of firsts at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. It was the first time the school hosted a social enterprise competition. It was also the first time Phoenix-based philanthropic foundation, the Pakis Family Foundation, judged and awarded a university-hosted business competition. And by all… How Indian Applicants Can Get Into A Top MBA Program (NEWS) By: Salma Qarnain | Last Updated: February 12, 2016 If you are reading this, you are most likely a candidate from India who is wondering what you need to be working on now to maximize your chance for admissions success to top MBA programs next season and beyond. You are not alone. According to GMAC’s Profile of GMAT® Testing: Citizenship Report, Five-Year Summary, TY2011–TY2015,… How Much Does An MBA Really Cost? (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: February 20, 2016 How Much Does An MBA Really Cost? Educators are fond of describing an MBA degree as an “investment.” But it doesn’t soothe the blow when the bill comes due. Of course, some investments fare better than others over time. If you’re cost conscious – and only looking at the short window – Europe is… Best MBA Programs For Round Three Applicants (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: November 4, 2020 Either you’ve washed out in round one or two, or you got a late start and couldn’t get your MBA application in earlier. Which highly ranked schools give applicants the best shot in the third and often final round? We recently asked that question of all the leading MBA admission consultants in the world, including… Ranking The World’s Most ‘International’ MBA Programs (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: March 9, 2016 Forty years ago, MBAs pictured global commerce as the great equalizer. As more countries all over the globe embraced open markets, middle class consumers would emerge and their purchasing power would sustain growth, create opportunities, and drive innovation. To help realize this vision, business schools became increasingly global themselves, lagging behind business itself but slowly… This LBS Student Is Using An MBA To Expand Stem Cell Therapy (NEWS) By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: March 25, 2016 When her friends wanted Easy-Bake Ovens for Christmas, five-year-old Crystal Ruff wanted a microscope. Her science-obsessed mind was made up--she had no interest in baking cookies. Instead, she wanted to examine all of the dirt, rocks, feathers and bugs she could find around her home on the outskirts of Toronto. Fast-forward nearly three decades and Ruff… How ESADE Became A Startup Haven (NEWS) By: Peter Vanham | Last Updated: July 20, 2023 When Brian Gale started his MBA school search, he knew one thing very clearly: he was not going to apply to an American school. As an American, he felt the experience on U.S. campuses would give him too little exposure to what mattered most: international experience. So instead of applying to one of the best… Why It Costs So Much To Take That GMAT Test (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: April 6, 2016 Ever wonder why the GMAT costs $250 a pop? You can find at least part of the answer in the financial report that the Graduate Management Admission Council files with the Internal Revenue Service. What the record shows is that the non-profit organization's top officials are very handsomely paid--by any standards. In his first full… LBS Sings To New Guinness World Record (NEWS) By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: April 6, 2016 What does a 75-story house of cards, an 18 pound onion and more than 200 students, faculty and staff at a world-class business school have in common? You can find them all listed in the latest edition of Guinness World Records. 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