Tuck | Mr. Invest In Change
GMAT 710, GPA 3.1
Tuck | Mr. Chemical Engineer
GRE 326, GPA 3
INSEAD | Mr. Future AI Product Manager
GMAT 715, GPA 3.7
NYU Stern | Mr. Operations Strategy & Youth Leadership
GMAT 770, GPA 4
IE Business School | Mr. JD Garay
GRE GPA: 3.9, GPA 3.0
Kellogg SOM | Mr. Military To Entrepreneur
GMAT 745, GPA 2.38
London Business School | Mr. Decarbonisation
GMAT 695, GPA 3.5
Kellogg SOM | Mr. MENA Growth Equity
GMAT 730, GPA 3.4
Kellogg SOM | Mr. West Point Logistics
GRE 327, GPA 2.76
Harvard | Mr. Energy & AI PM
GRE 328, GPA 9.65
Tepper | Mr. Tech Mil-Veteran
GMAT TBD, GPA 3.35
Columbia | Mr. European MBB Consultant
GMAT 645 (Gmat Focus), GPA 8.2
MIT Sloan | Mr. Startup Strategy
GMAT 720, GPA 3.7
Stanford GSB | Mr. Mid-Market PE
GMAT 770, GPA 4
Stanford GSB | Mr. MBB Guy From Big 4 & Startup
GRE 325, GPA 3

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L.E.K. Plans 25% Rise In MBA Hires (NEWS)

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

In yet another sign that management consulting has been virtually immune from economic uncertainty, L.E.K. Consulting said it plans on increasing its MBA hires this year by 25%. In an interview with Poets&Quants, Chief Talent Officer Kristine Hyde said that would bring its total MBA hires to about 37 from the 30 MBAs the firm…

Indians Sending Fewer GMAT Scores To U.S. (NEWS)

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

Despite a 19% increase in GMAT test takers in India last year, the percentage sending their test scores to U.S. schools plunged by 13 points to 51% from 64% five years ago. In the testing year ended June 30, 2012, the 30,213 Indian citizens who took the GMAT sent 133,000 scores in total globally. About…

For Sale: MBA Essays From Admits (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: November 12, 2021

Before bootstrapping a start-up that would sell the essays of admitted MBA students from the world’s best business schools, Gili Elkin met with Derrick Bolton, the admissions director for Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. After all, it was Bolton who extended Elkin the invitation to come to Stanford’s prestige MBA program in 2006. She was…

McKinsey Ups Hires At Wharton, Tuck, Darden (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 28, 2021

For many MBA students, the dream job is a stint with McKinsey & Co., the preeminent global consulting firm and the largest single employer of MBA talent in the world. Even this year’s conviction of McKinsey’s former managing director, Rajat Gupta, for insider trading didn’t dull the desire of MBA grads to work for The…

Ex-Adcoms Launch MBA Consulting Firm (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 28, 2021

The business school admissions consulting business just became even more competitive. In a move that will surely raise the eyebrows of MBA admissions officials, a half dozen former gatekeepers from highly ranked schools have gotten together with the founder of the World MBA Tour to launch a new consulting firm aimed at business school candidates.…

The Million Dollar MBA Of The 2012 Class (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 28, 2021

CORRECTION: Manchester apparently misreported the million-dollar salary to Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The mistake occurred as a result of a currency conversion.  The unidentified MBA not only didn’t land his reported $1,088,638 base salary. In fact, the person’s starting salary was less than $90,000. The salary error, first reported by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, did not impact the magazine’s…

Stanford Breaks Record On MBA Cost (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 28, 2021

Stanford’s Graduate School of Business has leapfrogged the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and Columbia Business School to become the most expensive two-year MBA program in the world, according to an analysis by Poets&Quants. This year Stanford is telling applicants that the estimated cost of its two-year, full-time MBA program is a whopping $185,054, a…

Handicapping Those Tough MBA Odds (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: August 17, 2022

For the past six years, he’s been working for a private equity shop in the Midwest. With a 690 GMAT and a 3.3 grade point average from a state school, this 28-year-old wants to get his MBA to transition to an operating role in a company. The dream of this 28-year-old woman is to work…

Your Chances Of Getting In (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 27, 2021

A former NFL cheerleader who teaches dance, this 28-year-old woman works in communications and marketing for a civil rights non-profit. With a 700 GMAT and a 3.95 grade point average, she’s hoping that an MBA will help her land a job in consumer research and marketing for a socially responsible corporation. A former equities research…

Highest Paid MBAs In The Class Of 2012 (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 27, 2021

After a mistaken report that an MBA graduate of Manchester Business School landed a base salary of more than one million dollars last year, the actual numbers from other schools look rather puny for the Class of 2012. At the most prominent business schools, the highest starting salary went to an MBA of Stanford University's…

Harvard To Top New 2013 FT Ranking (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 27, 2021

For the first time since 2005, The Financial Times is expected to name on Monday (Jan. 28) Harvard Business School’s full-time MBA experience the best in the world. This will only be the fourth time Harvard has topped The Financial Times list since it debuted in 1999. Harvard had captured the No. 1 spot in…

Stanford Alums Make The Most Dough (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 27, 2021

Money talks. Bullshit walks. It’s an old, rather crude, American cliche that essentially boils down to this: The ultimate measurement of success is how much a person earns. And when it comes to MBA grads, how much alumni of schools three years after graduation make is certainly one way to measure success. Every year, The…

2013 Financial Times Global MBA Ranking (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 28, 2013

The Financial Times today (Jan. 28) named Harvard Business School the best place in the world to earn a full-time MBA degree. It is the fourth time that Harvard has topped the FT list since it debuted in 1999. Harvard had captured the No. 1 spot in both the inaugural FT ranking in 1999 and again in…

MBA Boost To Salary Declining, Says FT (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 27, 2021

When The Financial Times published its new 2013 global MBA ranking yesterday, the newspaper also unwittingly tossed a grenade into the one of the most controversial discussions about the MBA degree: Is it still valuable? “The MBA degree, often seen as the quickest route to a fat salary, no longer delivers the purchasing power it…

MBA Jobs: A Duke MBA At Bank of America (NEWS)

By: Lawrence Cole | Last Updated: October 26, 2021

Twenty-nine-year-old Bhavna Goyal is a trailblazer in her own right. She excelled in her mechanical engineering studies at Indraprastha University in her native country of India. But as a woman, she was barred from many of the professional opportunities that existed in her chosen field. Realizing the discrimination she would face, Bhavna pivoted into information…

An Interview With IESE Dean Jordi Canals (NEWS)

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

Shortly after becoming dean of IESE Graduate Business School in Barcelona in July of 2001, Jordi Canals began having weekly breakfasts with groups of MBA students. Back then, their concerns were largely focused on job placement and networking.  They worried about landing a high paying MBA job and how their careers might progress. Today, his…

Why Women Go To Europe For An MBA (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 26, 2021

If you're a woman from North America who is studying for an MBA in Europe, you might very well be considered one of three types, according to a new study commissioned by the London Business School. You might have a "dual background," meaning you were born outside of North America from foreign parents. Or you…

Wharton Dean To Step Down In 2014 (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 25, 2021

The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School announced today (April 17) that Dean Thomas S. Robertson will be stepping down at the end of June of next year. A search committee will be put in place by the university to fill the position. The Scotish-born Robertson was appointed dean of Wharton in August, 2007-- eight months before…

Highest GMATs & Salaries in Europe (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 25, 2021

INSEAD has come out on top of a new ranking of the best European business schools. The school, with campuses in Fontainebleau, France, and Singapore, topped the list of 20 business schools. Right behind it were No. 2 London Business School, No. 3 IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, No. 4 IE Business School in Madrid, Spain,…

HEC Paris Hosts MBA Olympics (NEWS)

By: Lauren Everitt | Last Updated: October 25, 2021

MBAs can usually be found hunched over cases, scouring market data or swapping business cards, but on May 9 through May 11 more than 1,300 students from Europe's elite programs will dribble, sprint, climb, swim, row, bat and kart their way through 23 sports during the three-day MBA Tournament in Paris. HEC Paris has hosted…

Tech Executive Named New GMAC Chief (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: May 28, 2013

When Sangeet Chowfla took the GMAT exam in the mid-1970s, it opened up what he calls “life-changing” opportunities for him. The young man went to the University of Delhi, earning his MBA in 1979 and embarking on a career that would take him to Dubai, Greece, Germany, Singapore, and the United States. Today (May 28),…

Bad Karaoke, In-Law Recommenders: All In A Day’s Work for An Adcom (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 3, 2019

Over her 10 years in MBA admissions at the Wharton School of Business, Judith Hodara has seen it all: An applicant whose website featured video with horrendously bad karaoke renditions of Michael Jackson tunes, complete with moonwalk. A candidate who had his mother-in-law write a letter of recommendation for him. Even an applicant who left so…

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Thunderbird: A Case Study In Organizational Decline (NEWS)

By: Taylor Ellis | Last Updated: October 21, 2021

To Larry Penley, the president of the Thunderbird School of Global Management, the deal is pretty much a no-brainer. With the school's 2012 fiscal budget $4 million in the red, he has agreed to sell the Arizona campus to a for-profit education company in exchange for sorely needed cash that would allow the business school…

MBAs Expect 140% Pay Rise From Degree (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 21, 2021

Business school applicants in the U.S. say they expect the MBA degree to lift their current salaries by a whopping 140%, to an average of $140,000 a year from their pre-MBA salaries of $58,000. If that increase sounds Pollyannaish, candidates in many other countries have even greater expectations, according to a new survey of MBA…

Are MBA Application Fees A Ripoff? (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: October 21, 2021

MBA applicants who plan to try their chances at a half dozen of the best business schools this year could easily spend more than $1,200 in application fees--more often than not, for the pleasure of getting a rejection notice. At least six business schools collected more than $1 million last year in application fees to their…

MBA Avatars To Compete In Contest (NEWS)

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

MBA students, it's time to get your avatars ready for competition. The first-ever 'Second Life' global business simulation will debut in October with 32 MBA students from such schools as Wharton, London Business School and INSEAD. The four-person MBA teams will compete for $50,000 in prize money in a 3-D virtual world in running a…

Handicapping Your MBA Odds: Mr. Army Intelligence (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: August 17, 2022

A West Point valedictorian, he’s a military intelligence officer who has had direct leadership of more than 100 soldiers. With a 700 GMAT, this twenty-something officer wants an MBA so he can return to the U.S. Army and eventually guide its cyber intelligence unit. An Ivy League grad with a 750 GMAT and a 3.75,…