Search Results for: london business school (3439 results found) Meet Imperial College’s MBA Class Of 2025: Sheen Hui (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 4, 2025 Sheen Hui Imperial College Business School Hometown: Singapore Fun Fact About Yourself: I’ve lived in five cities! Singapore, Beijing, Taipei, Boston, and now London. Undergraduate School and Major: Babson College, BSc in Business Administration (Concentrating in Environmental Sustainability) Most Recent Employer and Job Title: SmartFlower Solar, Creative Designer & Marketing Manager What were some of… Meet Imperial College’s MBA Class Of 2025: Riccardo Bassiri (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 4, 2025 Riccardo Bassiri Imperial College Business School Hometown: Glasgow, Scotland Fun Fact About Yourself: During my early years at Stanford, I played the piano in a chamber music group, which became a rewarding way to balance creativity, collaboration and personal growth. Graduate School and Major: University of Glasgow, PhD in Physics Most Recent Employer and Job… Meet Imperial College’s MBA Class Of 2025: George Dear (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 4, 2025 George Dear Imperial College Business School Hometown: Warsash, United Kingdom Fun Fact About Yourself: I took up Taekwondo when I was younger after seeing a session at my local sports centre. I enjoyed it so much I went on to earn my Black Belt in 2011. Undergraduate School and Major: Civil Engineering, University of Surrey … Meet Imperial College’s MBA Class Of 2025: Gabriela Warpsinski (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 4, 2025 Gabriela Warpsinski Imperial College Business School Hometown: Jakarta, Indonesia Fun Fact About Yourself: I have a Polish-sounding surname which my dad made up because of his obsession with Star Trek and classical music! Undergraduate School and Major: Biomedical Science, King’s College London Graduate School and Major: PhD in Cardiovascular Sciences, King’s College London Most Recent… Meet Imperial College’s MBA Class Of 2025: David Driskell (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 4, 2025 David Driskell is pursuing his MBA at Imperial College Business School David Driskell Imperial College Business School Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia, USA Fun Fact About Yourself: I’ve drunk the world’s most expensive cup of coffee (Kopi Luwak) on top of the tallest building in the world: the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Undergraduate School and Major: Berry College,… Meet Imperial College’s MBA Class Of 2025: Christa Schweizer (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 4, 2025 Christa Schweizer Imperial College Business School Hometown: Bermuda Fun Fact About Yourself: Theatre enthusiast with a current love for the play ‘Hamilton’ Undergraduate School and Major: Spelman College (USA), BA Political Science Graduate School and Major: University of Bristol (UK), MA Law Most Recent Employer and Job Title: Butterfield Group - Vice President, Legal Counsel… Meet Imperial College’s MBA Class Of 2025: Calvin Nisban (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 4, 2025 Calvin Nisban Imperial College Business School Hometown: Singapore Fun Fact About Yourself: I have a knack for remembering obscure flags, countries by shape and can identify nearly every country's flag and its shape. Undergraduate School and Major: National University of Singapore, Double Degree in Business Administration & Arts and Social Science Most Recent Employer and… Meet Imperial College’s MBA Class Of 2025: Bogosi Shashane (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: February 4, 2025 Bogosi Shashane Imperial College Business School Hometown: Palapye, Botswana Fun Fact About Yourself: I am a product of Botswana's diamond industry, having received the government's top achievers' scholarship which has funded my seven years of education in the UK, including this MBA. This demonstrates how Botswana reinvests its diamond wealth into its people's development. Undergraduate… Meet the MBA Class of 2026: Courtney Fondufe, University of Chicago (Booth) (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: February 5, 2025 Courtney Fondufe University of Chicago, Booth School of Business “An ex-investor with operator aspirations and a deep dissatisfaction with the US healthcare system.” Hometown: West Orange, NJ Fun Fact About Yourself: Ever since I was a kid, I have disliked cheese. This was never a problem until I went to high school in France. Disliking… Meet the MBA Class of 2026: Giovanna Pinciroli, University of Chicago (Booth) (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: February 5, 2025 Giovanna Pinciroli University of Chicago, Booth School of Business “24-year-old green-eyed Italian. Stanford engineer. 3 years in PE Large Buyout in London. Booth MBA candidate.” Hometown: Milan, Italy Fun Fact About Yourself: During my time at Stanford, I further developed a passion for photography and capturing motion in sports. Became the photographer of the Men’s… Meet Chicago Booth’s MBA Class Of 2026 (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: February 5, 2025 Your MBA experience is only as good as your classmates. Quality faculty, deep resources, zealous alumni – they matter. In the end, you want to be around amazing classmates who’ve accomplished big things. You want to be exposed to paths that have been neither ordinary nor expected. Over time, you want their confidence to rub… Inside Berkeley Haas’s Sparkling New Home For Entrepreneurship & The ‘Entrepre-Curious’ (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: February 13, 2025 Spaces to grow your business startup idea are plentiful at the University of California Berkeley — so plentiful that "plentiful" doesn't even begin to describe it. But in the past, that itself may have been a problem: With dozens of possible avenues for pursuing your genius business idea, where do you begin? Which is the… The Economist Asks ‘Is The MBA Worth It?’ (NEWS) By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: March 4, 2025 In the inevitable ups and downs of economic cycles, there are always good times and bad times. And as the Class of 2024 employment reports trickled out toward year-end, it began increasingly clear that last year was not a stellar one for graduating MBAs. One school after another reported declining placement rates, both at… The Cornell CEMS MIM: International Internships, Elite Networking & Real-World Impact (NEWS) By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: February 21, 2025 Manasi Mukund Kabra of Nashik, India, hoped to study abroad during her undergrad, earning a degree in business economics and management information systems at the University of Arizona. The pandemic disrupted those plans. When researching graduate programs, she found what seemed like the perfect fit: CEMS Master in International Management (MIM) at Cornell’s Charles H.… 2024 Most Disruptive MBA Startups: FaceFlow.AI, INSEAD (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: March 3, 2025 FaceFlow.AI INSEAD Industry: Beauty Tech / AI MBA Founding Student Name(s): Dhinil Patel & Simon Zhang Brief Description of Solution: FaceFlow.AI delivers personalised skincare insights and product recommendations tailored to each user's unique skin profile. Through real-time skin diagnostics and IoT integrations, the platform evaluates key skin characteristics such as texture, tone, and health, offering data-backed advice… 2024 Most Disruptive MBA Startups: Sea2Carbon, INSEAD (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: March 3, 2025 Sea2Carbon INSEAD Industry: Industrials, Biotech MBA Founding Student Name(s): Utsav Oza Brief Description of Solution: Sea2Carbon presents an innovative solution to combat climate change and address challenges in hard-to-abate sectors through the utilization of invasive sargassum seaweed. The technology revolves around a modular reactor capable of transforming sargassum into multiple sustainable products, including bio-coal for… Meet Wharton’s MBA Class Of 2026 (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: March 19, 2025 Where do I go? What do I do? What first? What’s best? So many options. So many opportunities. That’s the tough part about earning an MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. While students fret over FOMO – the fear of missing out – they overlook the school’s JODE – the joy… 2025 MBAs Abroad: Dotun Oni, Imperial College (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: March 10, 2025 Dotun Oni Imperial College Business School Home City and Country: Lagos, Nigeria Most Recent Employer and Job Title: Living Lagos, Founder How has studying business in the United Kingdom enriched your learning experience? Studying the Full-Time MBA in the UK has given me a global perspective on business. It has widened my horizon and expended… 2025 MBAs Abroad: Sofia Baldomir, Imperial College (NEWS) By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: March 10, 2025 Sofia Baldomir Imperial College Business School Home City and Country: Montevideo, Uruguay Most Recent Employer and Job Title: Blend, Amazon Web Services Global Partnership Manager How has studying business in the United Kingdom enriched your learning experience? Studying for an MBA in the United Kingdom has been an incredible experience, primarily due to the exposure… Meet Oxford Saïd’s Inaugural Class Of Future Leader Scholars (NEWS) By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: March 28, 2025 Growing up in Cameroon in Central Africa, Laurinda Tchouanga saw first-hand the unequal impacts of climate change. Many African countries are particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of a warming planet, despite being among the lowest contributors of global emissions. “This reality drives me to build expertise at the intersection of business and sustainability, so… NYU Stern Names Harvard’s Bharat Anand As Next Dean (NEWS) By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: April 7, 2025 New York University has tapped a prominent Harvard University expert in corporate and digital strategy to lead its business school. Bharat N. Anand, vice provost at Harvard University and a key architect of its business school's online strategy, has been named the Richard R. West Dean of NYU’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business effective… $100M From Alumnus Rebrands Chicago Booth’s Executive MBA Program (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: April 16, 2025 Chicago Booth’s Executive MBA Program is getting a new name — and a major upgrade — thanks to a $100 million donation from alumnus and investor Konstantin Sokolov. The gift, one of the largest in school history, will rename the program the Sokolov Executive MBA Program and provide significant new funding for scholarships, curriculum development,… East Meets West: Will Hungary’s Corvinus University Become A Magnet For International Talent? (NEWS) By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: April 16, 2025 Six months into his appointment as rector and president of Corvinus University of Budapest, Bruno van Pottelsberghe has a clear vision for the university’s future: Bring the world to Corvinus and bring Corvinus to the world. “We want to show that coming to Budapest and Hungary is exciting,” he tells P&Q. “You have to be… Meet The Alliance Manchester Class of 2026, Maximilian Dowling (NEWS) By: Meghan Marrin | Last Updated: April 18, 2025 Maximilian Dowling "Math geek turned entrepreneur, thriving on solving problems except when it’s my own WiFi" Hometown: Ashford, Kent, England Fun Fact About Yourself: During my 2022 travels in the US, I outran Hurricane Ian in a Mustang to catch a connecting flight. Undergraduate School and Major: The University of Manchester, Mathematics BSc Most Recent… Meet The Alliance Manchester Class of 2026, Weiwen (Vivienne) Jin (NEWS) By: Meghan Marrin | Last Updated: April 18, 2025 Weiwen (Vivienne) Jin "Car crash changed me entirely from PR assistant to design reshaping global fashion" Hometown: Shanghai, China Fun Fact About Yourself: I first learned management in university and then shifted to fashion design out of passion. Now I went back to management because I want to make a difference. I believe that Chinese… Babson Awards Over $150K To Student & Alumni Ventures In 2025 B.E.T.A. Challenge (NEWS) By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: April 20, 2025 Babson College handed out more than $150,000 in funding and services this month to nine startups founded by its students and alumni — a gut-health chocolate brand, a circular skincare venture, and a pet wellness company among them — as part of the school’s 2025 B.E.T.A. Challenge, held April 11 at Joseph L. Winn Auditorium… Meet The Alliance Manchester MBA Class Of 2026 (NEWS) By: Meghan Marrin | Last Updated: April 22, 2025 This year, the Alliance Manchester MBA program has brought together a remarkable group of students from around the world, each with their own inspiring journeys and ambitions. The cohort is tackling academic challenges, gaining real-world experience, and building strong connections along the way. From consultancy projects that push the boundaries of creativity to personal milestones…