Search Results for: london business school (3439 results found) Handicapping Your MBA Odds: Ms. Nielsen’s, Mr. Coca-Cola, Ms. Payday Loans, Mr. CPA, Ms. Naval Academy, Dr. Baseball (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne & Sandy Kreisberg | Last Updated: July 8, 2023 This 27-year-old Native American has been working in the corporate treasury department of a global beverage company for two years. With a GMAT of 740 and a grade point average of 3.8, he now hopes to apply to MBA with the hope of transition to McKinsey, Bain or BCG. A certified public accountant, this 26-year-old American male… Top Brands, Lower Salaries: Study (NEWS) By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: October 3, 2019 What's in a name? Quite a bit according to some recent research coming out of London Business School: CEOs were willing to take a 12% salary reduction to spend time at a well-known company. Younger executives were even more likely to take significant pay cuts believing a strong brand name on their resume would lead to… Why Ivey Ranked First Among Global MBAs (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: July 13, 2023 Picture the top full-time MBA programs outside the United States. Chances are, INSEAD, HEC Paris, or the London Business School come to mind. No surprise there. These schools are often duke it out for the top spots in most international rankings. Year after year, their performance in metrics like starting salaries and placement rates is… Rejected by HBS/GSB/Wharton? How to bounce back in R2 (NEWS) By: Matt Symonds, Director at Fortuna Admissions | Last Updated: January 29, 2025 A little more than 900 of the round one MBA applicants to Harvard have been invited for interview. And with Stanford invites trickling out the door and Wharton selectively reaching out to applicants for their Team Based Discussion, it is the first reality check for many applicants about their chances of securing their place at… A New Salary-Vs-Debt MBA Ranking (NEWS) By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: June 28, 2021 When life gives you lemons, you squeeze them. When your business gives you big data, you crunch it. Through refinancing more than $4 billion in student loans, lending startup SoFi has harvested financial data from hundreds of thousands of MBAs. Now, the San Francisco company has analyzed nearly a quarter million loan refinancing applications from graduated MBAs to produce its inaugural… INSEAD Claims First In New 2015 Poets&Quants’ Ranking Of International MBAs (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: November 18, 2015 For just the second time in six years, INSEAD jumped ahead of the London Business School to claim first place in the new Poets&Quant's ranking of the best MBA programs outside the U.S. INSEAD's accelerated 10-month MBA, is the quintessential global experience, drawing students from more than 80 nationalities on three campuses in Fontainebleau, France,… Meet The CEIBS MBA Class of 2017 (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: November 21, 2015 MBAs go where the action is. It’s always been that way. It’s part of their DNA. Curious, ambitious, and never satisfied, MBAs fear being late more than anything. They’re driven to find kindred spirits and test boundaries – to open new markets and create something new. That’s why they’re so attuned to uncovering the next… How They Got In & How You Can, Too (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 3, 2019 If you’re applying to a highly selective business school, you’re grappling with the same challenges that many other candidates have dealt with, including the latest crop of MBA students at the top schools. How did they prepare for the GMAT or the GRE? How did they go about drawing up a list of target schools?… Our Favorite MBAs Of 2015 (NEWS) By: Nathan Allen | Last Updated: October 3, 2019 The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. Those words were originally penned by Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist in 1988. Since then, more than 65 million copies of the book have been sold in nearly 60 languages. And those words helped guide Poets&Quants as we plucked our favorite… Ten Women From the Class of 2017 To Watch (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: December 19, 2015 Among business schools, you could describe 2015 as the year of the woman. At Harvard, Wharton, Booth, Kellogg, Haas Tuck and Yale, the percentage of incoming women all snuck above 40%. And programs like Fuqua, Darden, and London Business School reported a surge in female students as well. This year’s female first-years were distinguished by… How Much Does Networking Cost? (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 3, 2019 How Much Does Networking Cost? What’s the first business lesson that every first year absorbs? It always costs far more than you expected. And that’s especially true in business school. According to a November Bloomberg Businessweek study, Stanford MBAs spend $18,553 on non-essential items each year. That number is $17,717 at Wharton and $16,290 at… HEC Paris Names A New Dean (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: December 26, 2015 HEC Paris Dean Bernard Garrette, who has led his school to significant recognition on the world stage, is leaving his job on Dec. 31st with the conclusion of a five-year term. He will be succeeded by Andrea Masini, a professor of operations and information technology. Masini will have big shoes to fill. Over the past five… Does Silicon Valley Really Devalue MBAs? (NEWS) By: Paul Ollinger | Last Updated: December 26, 2015 In developing and scaling its amazing portfolio of products, Facebook and many other top companies religiously follow some version of the this mantra: Observe what people (users) do. Ignore what they say they do. That same perspective should be kept in mind when reading the recent words of Silicon Valley elite downplaying the importance of… Ranking The Best MBA Alumni Networks (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: December 30, 2015 Every business school hypes their alumni network. Adcoms will drop names of CEOs who once prowled the halls. And employment reports – without fail – index their top employers. They are allusions to the depth and vitality of the alumni base. Who could resist such a pitch? ‘This could be me in a few years,’… The Top Incubators & Accelerators (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: November 17, 2025 The Top University Incubators and Accelerators Remember the good ol’ days, say 1990. Back then, if you caught the entrepreneurial bug, you’d set up shot in your garage, writing code and guzzling Mountain Dew until you had something to sell. These days, you’ll find far more support in launching a startup – especially if you’re… Caroline Diarte Edwards (CONSULTANT) By: Heather Soderquist | Last Updated: March 4, 2026 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… Judith Silverman Hodara (CONSULTANT) By: Heather Soderquist | Last Updated: March 4, 2026 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… Nonie Mackie (CONSULTANT) By: Heather Soderquist | Last Updated: March 4, 2026 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… Matt Symonds (CONSULTANT) By: Heather Soderquist | Last Updated: March 4, 2026 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… Melissa Jones (CONSULTANT) By: Heather Soderquist | Last Updated: March 3, 2026 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… Nicola Sandford (CONSULTANT) By: Heather Soderquist | Last Updated: March 6, 2026 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… Heidi Hillis (CONSULTANT) By: Heather Soderquist | Last Updated: March 3, 2026 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. 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