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An Interview With INSEAD Dean Ilian Mihov (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 10, 2020

Even though INSEAD is nearing completion of a six-story Leadership Development Center in Singapore, Dean Ilian Mihov does not envision increasing the school’s already high MBA enrollment in the near term. In an interview with Poets&Quants, Mihov says he prefers to focus on building the quality of INSEAD’s MBA program rather than adding to the…

HBS Seeks To Raise Record $1 Billion (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 9, 2020

Harvard Business School today (April 25) publicly launched a capital campaign to raise $1 billion over the next five years, the largest amount of money to ever be raised by a business school. The school said it has already gained more than $600 million in gifts and pledges as part of the campaign’s “quiet phase,” which began in…

Why MBAs Are Even More Satisfied Than The Most Optimistic Survey Shows (NEWS)

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

Every year, the Graduate Management Admission Council asks alumni of MBA programs all over the world if they think the time and money they spent getting the degree was worth it. And every year, the results show extremely high levels of satisfaction with the MBA. The latest 2014 GMAC Alumni Perspectives Survey, released in March,…

MBAs With The Highest First-Year ROI (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: June 8, 2020

MBA Programs with the Highest First Year ROI Looking to get rich quick after graduation? Don’t go to Wharton, Stanford or Kellogg…Go to HEC Paris (or the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Graduate School of Business), instead. That’s the lesson from a new study produced by The Economist, which examined an MBA’s first-year return on…

Poets&Quants Releases MBA Rankings eGuide (NEWS)

By: Lauren Everitt | Last Updated: June 5, 2020

Poets&Quants today (May 22) released its inaugural MBA Rankings eGuide, a comprehensive digital reference book on the best MBA programs and the most-consulted rankings. The eGuide is available for free for use on iPads, iPhones, Android tablets, and as a downloadable PDF. [digital-magazine-ad] Who came out No. 1? Harvard Business School held out over the competition, nabbing…

Recommendations: Does Prestige Matter? (NEWS)

By: Judith Silverman Hodara and Caroline Diarte Edwards | Last Updated: June 4, 2020

Would a letter of recommendation from the President of the United States help your chances of admission to business school? It might seem like a no-brainer to have the leader of the world's largest economy write on your behalf. This case was the source of much discussion among the team at Fortuna Admissions when a…

HEC Paris: Where The Grande École Has Gone Global (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: July 23, 2023

For a recent business school presentation on the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Connie Chen came dressed to the nines. After all, the MBA exchange student at HEC Paris was leading a group of four classmates in the semester’s last session of a class on Luxury Strategy. The highly popular course is taught by a…

Meet The Fashion-Forward MBAs (NEWS)

By: Lauren Everitt | Last Updated: June 3, 2020

Italian student Alessandra Basso has "fashion in her DNA." So after a six-year career in communications and marketing for architecture and interior design firms, she set her sights on breaking into high-end apparel. But rather than signing up for design school or a textiles degree, she enrolled in London Business School in September 2012. From luxury…

Oxford’s Saïd Fights ‘Bunker’ Mentality (NEWS)

By: Helena Pozniak | Last Updated: June 2, 2020

When the dean of Oxford University's Saïd Business School sits down to coffee and croissants with his students once a week, he likes what he hears. He’s presiding over a revamp of the school’s curriculum, and the feedback over breakfast has been good. Not to say students didn’t already appreciate the university's one-year MBA program as…

Handicapping Your Shot At An Elite MBA: Mr. Indian-Engineer-Turned-Strategy Analyst (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 2, 2020

After working in India as a software programmer for a major software company, this Indian-born engineer managed to land a strategy job with a global insurance company in Chicago. A 26-year-old who graduated at the top 20% of his class in computer science, he has an impressively high 750 GMAT and now wants to go to…

Ranking Masters in Finance Programs (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: August 9, 2022

The Financial Times Ranking of Masters in Finance Programs Don’t want to spend two years in business school? Looking to focus on one specific area of the business? If that’s the case, you may want to join the growing legion of students enrolling in specialized masters programs. According to the 2014 Prospective Student Survey,…

The MBA Gatekeeper At Cambridge Judge (NEWS)

By: Helena Pozniak | Last Updated: June 1, 2020

As far as business school admissions officers go, Conrad Chua is unusually outspoken—especially for someone who has an influential perch at tony Cambridge University. For the past five years, he has headed up MBA admissions for the Judge Business School at what is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. His candid and thoughtful observations on the…

Can Booth Screen Applicants For Wealth? (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: May 29, 2020

Can a Survey Tell if an Applicant Will Get Rich Someday? It’s never been easy to get into a good business school. You devote months to honing your problem-solving skills, hoping to land that magical 730 score. You grovel for recommendations, as you conduct the self-analysis that your ex had once begged you to do…

Should Women Apply Differently? (NEWS)

By: Judith Silverman Hodara and Caroline Diarte Edwards | Last Updated: May 14, 2020

Should women approach the application to business school any differently than men? As a subject fraught with stereotyping, admissions officers will typically avoid any suggestion that they view male and female applicants differently. But with decades of experience in MBA admissions evaluating thousands of files, we have seen some common characteristics that are worth a bit of exploration. We…

My Story: Founding A Startup At Oxford (NEWS)

By: Lauren Everitt | Last Updated: April 8, 2020

Etyan Lerba is a research fanatic. From cameras to running shoes, he scours the web, reviews specs, and learns the product jargon to make the most informed purchase possible. (A legacy, no doubt, of his four years with the Boston Consulting Group). Problem is, all of that research makes selecting the perfect item nearly impossible: He's…

Is A One-Year MBA Worth It? (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: April 7, 2020

Is a One-Year MBA Worth It? “Faster…Smaller…Cheaper.” Sound like a mantra you learn in business school. But would you believe it is becoming the mantra for business schools? The desire to earn a degree sooner at less cost: That’s at the heart of the one-year MBA program. Popularized in Europe nearly sixty years ago,…

Harvard’s Poignant Ice Bucket Challenge (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: August 30, 2014

Harvard Business School's Class of 2016 yesterday (Aug. 29) finally got on campus to do what just about every other top business school has already done: The ALS ice bucket challenge. While HBS' version of the ubiquitous social media event was no match for the extravaganza put on by UNC's Kenan-Flagler MBA students, it was…

Why IMD Is Reporting Three-Year Pay Stats (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: April 6, 2020

It’s standard practice for a business school to annually report the pay and placement numbers for every graduating class. Those stats are scrutinized by thousands of applicants, students, and alumni as a way to see how a school is faring in the marketplace. So it may come as something of a surprise that IMD, the…

What's the future of business education? How will what is taught in a mainstream MBA program change in coming years? These questions were asked during the Business Education Jam

Deans & CEOs To Debate Future Of MBA (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: September 12, 2014

What's the future of business education? How will what is taught in a mainstream MBA program change in coming years? Some two dozen business school deans and chief executives are scheduled to publicly ponder those questions during a three-day, interactive online conference organized by the Boston University School of Management. "Business Education Jam: Envisioning the Future" runs…

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Want An MBA? Questions To Ask (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: September 11, 2023

Should You Get An MBA? The Questions You Need To Ask Sound familiar? You’re not alone. Last year, over 238,000 professionals took the GMAT. And you can bet nearly as many contemplated taking it. For many, an MBA is the panacea for whatever ails them professionally. Stuck in a soul-sucking, dead end job? Get…

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IMD Buried $10K Fall In MBA Pay Last Year (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: September 13, 2014

IMD, the prestigious European business school in Lausanne, Switzerland, stopped reporting annual salary statistics only after suffering significant declines in the average pay and bonus of its MBA graduates last year, the school concedes. Earlier this year, for the first time, the International Institute for Management Development, widely known by its acronym IMD, broke the…

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FT Ranks MiM Degrees But Forgets The U.S. (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: September 15, 2014

As many as 50 business schools in the U.S. now offer an increasingly popular one-year degree called the Master’s In Management, but you won’t find any of them on the new ranking published today (Sept. 15) by The Financial Times. Even though such powerhouse U.S. schools as MIT, Duke, Michigan, Northwestern, USC and Notre Dame…

The LSE’s Foray Into Management (NEWS)

By: Helena Pozniak | Last Updated: September 29, 2014

In a U.K. student chatroom, debate rages as a student mulls a dilemma. He’s been accepted into two prestigious schools for a masters in management – London Business School and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Which should he choose? Replies reflect the conventional wisdom. The LSE, with a string of influential…

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IMD Says MBA Job Interviews Up 40% (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 8, 2014

In a webinar meant to allay concerns that IMD’s boutique MBA program is drifting, the director of the school’s MBA program said today (Oct. 8) that job interviews with current students are up 40% over last year. Ralf Boscheck, a long-time faculty member at the school who is MBA program director, said that Boston Consulting…

Chicago Again Tops Economist 2014 MBA Ranking (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 9, 2014

For the fourth time in five years, the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business came out on top The Economist’s ranking of full-time MBA programs published today (Oct. 9). But the bigger story in this latest list is the big gains racked up by Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Yale University's School of…

Have MBAs Lost Interest In I-Banking? (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: September 11, 2023

Have MBAs Lost Interest in Investment Banking? When you picture an investment banker, you probably imagine someone who wears tailored suits and smokes rare cigars. They drive sleek cars and live in swanky pads overlooking the East River. They spend their weekends at the Hamptons and holiday in the Riviera. Sure, they work 14…

How To Prep For An MBA Interview (NEWS)

By: Malvina Miller Complainville | Last Updated: October 3, 2019

The MBA interviewing season is ramping up, and hopeful candidates all over the world are anxiously awaiting interview invitations from their target schools. One thing that I always emphasize to my clients at Fortuna, as I did when working with MBA students at Harvard Business School, is that they should not wait until they…

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