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Anxiety Builds Over Early HBS Deadline (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 20, 2021

Harvard Business School’s round one deadline--only five days away on Sept. 16th--almost always produces a certain level of anxiety in MBA applicants. But this year the unease and worry has reached something of a crescendo due to a new open-ended essay question and a round one deadline that is eight days earlier than last year.…

INSEAD Names Insider New Dean (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 19, 2021

For the first time in more than a dozen years, INSEAD turned to its inside ranks to name an economics professor based the new dean of one of Europe's top business schools. Ilian Mihov, who has taught at INSEAD since 1996 but has scant administrative experience, had been one of two interim deans since March…

2013 Forbes’ MBA Ranking (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 19, 2021

For only the second time in 14 years, Stanford University's Graduate School of Business nudged out Harvard Business School and other rivals to become Forbes' highest ranked business school. The biennial Forbes MBA ranking, published this morning (Oct. 9), shows the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business in second place, with Harvard dropping to…

2013 The Economist’s MBA Ranking (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 10, 2013

The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business has topped the The Economist's full-time MBA ranking for the second consecutive year. The new global ranking out today (Oct. 10) by the British magazine follows yesterday's publication of Forbes' biennial MBA ranking. Dartmouth College's Tuck School took second place again, while UC-Berkeley's Haas School jumped into third from sixth place last…

Calculating Your Odds Of Getting A Top MBA (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 19, 2021

This 26-year-old young professional woman is an analyst at a mid-level investment bank in New York. A Big 10 grad with degrees in finance and economics, she wants to use the MBA to eventually become a leader in the private equity space. A professional at Procter & Gamble, this 26-year-old man says he is French…

Prepping For Your MBA Adcom Interview (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 19, 2021

9 Key Ways To Ace Your MBA Interview “It all comes down to this moment.” That’s what athletes tell themselves with the score tied and the clock running low. Entrepreneurs dwell on that same thought before pitching an angel for a life line. Before you sit down with an adcom member, you’ll feel that…

Virtual MBAs Compete For Cash (NEWS)

By: Maya Itah | Last Updated: October 15, 2021

How’s this for an outlandish scenario? Four MBAs who’ve never met in person walk into a virtual business contest … and walk out with $28,000 in decidedly non-virtual cash. Today, VirBELA, announced the winners of its Global Business Simulation Competition. The victorious teammates: Ankita Solanki of the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad; Carine Toutet of INSEAD-Singapore; Laimona Staskus…

MBAs Turn Away From Wall Street (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 15, 2021

The Best And Brightest Are Turning Away From Wall Street The stock market is riding high these days. Earnings and cash reserves are better than ever. So why are the big banks feeling so nervous? No, the banks aren’t fretting over another shutdown (or a new round of subpoenas). Instead, they’re looking at a…

Harvard Profs Dominate Leading Thinkers List (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 15, 2021

Which business school can boast the largest number of the world’s most influential management thinkers? Hands down, Harvard Business School has emerged the leading home of the most important thought leaders in management once again, according to the Thinkers50, a biennial ranking published today (Nov. 11). Harvard has nine of the top 50 thinkers on…

Will MOOCs Make MBA Programs Dinosaurs? (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 15, 2021

Will Online Courses Turn MBA Programs Into Dinosaurs? The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is Rapidly fadin' And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin.' -…

Booth Team Wins Stock Picking Contest (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 15, 2021

Against a slate of MBA teams from 15 highly prominent business schools, the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business left Friday (Nov. 15) with the championship trophy of the annual investment manager competition called the Alpha Challenge. Booth finished ahead of a team from Yale University’s School of Management and the University of Virginia’s…

Poets&Quants’ Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs Of 2013 (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 19, 2020

This year’s Poets&Quants ranking of the best full-time MBA programs in the U.S. proves that the best business schools tend to stay put: There is not a single difference between the top eight MBA programs in our new 2013 composite ranking and the top eight in 2012. What’s more, all top 10 schools remained firmly in…

The Best Non-U.S. MBA Programs Of 2013 (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 19, 2020

For the third time in four years, London Business School won top prize in Poets&Quants ranking of the 50 best MBA programs outside the U.S. in 2013. INSEAD again came in second, while Switzerland's IMD claimed third place. Two schools in Spain rounded out this year's top five, with IESE Business School at the University…

Why Don’t More MBAs Go Into Sales? (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: June 19, 2020

Why Don’t More MBAs Go Into Sales? Sales: It is at the very heart of business. If you can’t close, you can’t compete, they say. Sure, most people would like to design campaigns, massage numbers, or steer a vision and culture. In the end, you need to knock on doors; build relationships; hear “no”…

2013 Dean Of The Year: Rotman’s Roger Martin (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 11, 2020

Transformation is an overused word. It is pulled out of the dictionary to describe some pretty ordinary things. But that is not the case for either Roger Martin or the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. In the 15 years that Martin led Rotman, he utterly transformed the institution from a small, irrelevant…

Tuck Considering A One-Year MIM (NEWS)

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

Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business hopes to offer a one-year Masters in Management program for freshly minted undergraduates with little to no work experience. Tuck is currently studying the fast-growing market for these degrees and hopes to debut its MIM program in 2016, according to Tuck Dean Paul Danos. The new degree would make…

Highest & Lowest Paid MBAs of 2013 (NEWS)

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

$375,000. That's the starting base salary for the highest paid MBA in the Class of 2013. It's a princely sum for a freshly minted graduate of a business school, and it may be even more surprising that the MBA is not from Harvard, Stanford, or Wharton. Or, for that matter, London Business School or INSEAD.…

MBAs That Lead To The Lowest Debt (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: June 28, 2021

10 MBA Programs With the Lowest Debt You try not to think about it. Eventually, you’ll have to face it. If you’re enrolled in business school, you’re probably wading in debt. And the higher the debt, the fewer options you ultimately have. A recent report by the College Board found that graduate students borrowed,…

2014 Financial Times’s Global MBA Ranking (NEWS)

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

Harvard Business School topped The Financial Times' 2014 global MBA ranking for the second year in a row and for the fifth time since the FT began ranking full-time MBA programs in 1999. Stanford Graduate School of Business held on to its second place finish of last year, but Wharton slipped from its third-place perch…

INSEAD Quietly Revamps MBA Apps (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 12, 2020

In the midst of an admissions season, INSEAD is quietly revamping the way candidates apply for admission into its one-year MBA program in Fontainebleu, France, and Singapore. The changes—released on the school’s website this week—were done without notice or fanfare. The school is reducing the word counts for its essays by 400 words to 2,300,…

IMD Cuts Required Essays In Half (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 12, 2020

IMD is making it substantially easier for people to apply to its prestigious one-year, general management MBA program in Switzerland. The school said it will introduce a new, pared down application on Feb. 14 that will cut in half the required essays for admission to the school. The changes come in the aftermath of widespread…

Most & Least Recommended MBA Programs By Alumni (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: August 26, 2023

In a typical year, more than 10,000 alumni of the world's leading business schools fill out the survey sent to them by The Financial Times for its annual ranking of the best full-time MBA programs. Among other things, they're asked to recommend a trio of schools that they think so highly of they would recruit…

Infosys Plans To Hire 200 MBAs This Year (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: June 11, 2020

There’s no better time to be an MBA…especially if you want to work for Infosys. On Feb. 13, Infosys announced it would be recruiting 200 or more MBAs for positions in the United States, Europe, and Asia. That level of recruiting would make the company one of the top ten hirers of MBAs in the…

Wharton: ‘Don’t Go To Kellogg or Harvard’ (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 11, 2020

It's that time of the year again when MBA students from some of the top schools do their satirical send-ups of themselves and their rival schools. Some of the best of the student follies occur at Wharton, Columbia, Kellogg and Harvard. One of the first out of the gate this year is the 2014 Wharton…

Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds: Ms. Finance Real Estate (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: June 11, 2020

She’s a 25-year-old engineer for one of Silicon Valley’s glamour firms: Google, Facebook, or Twitter. With a 730 GMAT and a 3.65 grade point average, she’s hoping to get an MBA to help transition into a product management role for a tech company. This 24-year-old professional does financial planning and analysis for a major specialty…

Need A Brand Name Company To Get In? (NEWS)

By: Judith Silverman Hodara and Caroline Diarte Edwards | Last Updated: June 11, 2020

If I do not have a strong company name on my resume, should I forget applying to a top MBA program? It is easy to believe that most MBA students at the world's top business schools are former strategy consultants from McKinsey, Bain and BCG, investment bankers from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley,…

Wharton Tops New Research Ranking (NEWS)

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

When it comes to cranking out academic research in leading journals, the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School are in a league of their own. For the tenth consecutive year, Wharton topped a research ranking that tracks professors' articles in 24 peer-reviewed journals. Since the business schools in academic research ranking was launched…