Posts by Matthew Korman

As 12 p.m. Eastern time steadily approaches, the waning moments of anxiety and anticipation for Round Two interview invites to Harvard Business School are reaching a boiling point. Earlier this week, HBS Managing Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Chad Losee sent out a reminder to all applicants over at the HBS ‘Direct from the… Read more

More than 40 years since its incarnation, the so-called “January Barometer”—a theory that the direction stocks take in January predicts how their entire year will play out—is still going strong in some camps. But it’s not without its vocal detractors. In a recent Wall Street Journal article entitled “Sorry, the ‘January Barometer’ Is a Market Myth,” Fuqua School… Read more

Shortly after ascending to the top five in Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s latest annual ranking of best U.S. business schools, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business released its 2016 employment statistics. Contributing to its strong showing in the Bloomberg BW ranking was the annual salary reported by Tuck grads. According to the latest employment stats released by the… Read more

In an ongoing attempt to slash carbon emissions, the University of Virginia and its Darden School of Business have announced a 25-year solar power partnership deal with Dominion Virginia Power. As part of the agreement—called the UVA Hollyfield Solar Project—UVA and Darden will purchase all of the electricity produced over the next 25 years at… Read more

Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management has unveiled a brand new corporate partnership program designed to help MBA students deepen ties with potential employers, the school announced at recent advisory board meeting. So far, 16 companies have agreed to join the invitation-only program. The initiative is expected to expand partner company participation in residency programs,… Read more

For MBA students looking to head into investment management, pitching stocks is one of the top skills they’ll be looking to strengthen while in business school. The 12th Annual Alpha Challenge, hosted last month at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, gives participating students hands-on opportunity to do precisely that. MBA students at the… Read more

The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business earlier this month released its 2016 MBA Employment Report, and the results are nothing short of stellar. A staggering 98.4 percent of MBA grads earned a job three months after graduating, according to the report, representing a slight uptick from the previous year’s 97.4 percent. For comparison,… Read more

Bosses who are older or more experienced aren’t necessarily better, according to Sydney Finkelstein, author, management professor and faculty director at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. And he should know. His latest book, Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent, takes a painstakingly deep look into the the characteristics of exceptional leaders, and… Read more

Newly appointed Dean Mark Taylor of Washington University’s Olin School of Business in St. Louis wasn’t sure at the start of his career if academics was the path for him.  “I didn’t know whether I wanted to be an academic and change the world in terms of producing research that was impactful, or whether I wanted… Read more

It’s hard to imagine what it might feel like to wake up on Christmas morning and see a brand new Lexus or Audi parked in the driveway, tied up in a giant red bow. Screaming, of course, would be a natural reaction. But the closest most of us ever come to this scenario is watching… Read more

Despite emerging in the late 1940s, the Graduate Record Exam—more affectionately known as the GRE—took time to be seen as a viable MBA admissions exam alternative to the more standardized GMAT. But growing numbers of business schools accepting the optional test has eased the way for more non-traditional MBA students to apply by simply taking the… Read more

Twenty books into Sydney Finkelstein’s career, to call him an expert in leadership is something of an understatement. Finkelstein, management professor and faculty director at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, has earned wide acclaim for his most recently published book, Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent, which Amazon named one of… Read more

After leading research and outreach efforts with the University of Chicago—serving as both the executive director for the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics and director of research and operations with the Chicago Booth School of Business’ Center for Population Economics—Joseph Burton has joined the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business as the new… Read more

“If you could deduct a dollar for every word of jargon on your tax return, chances are, you would owe a lot less tax.” Those words, published in the New York Times, could realistically have been written in 2016. But this notion of an incredibly common public nuisance was published in 1984. And more than 30… Read more

London Business School (LBS) student Dr. Nicholas Deakin, MBA ‘17, was among the honorees named to this year’s Financial Times “2016 OUTstanding LGBT+ Future Leaders” list, coming in at an impressive fifth overall. Deakin has already made a long-standing positive impact in the LGBT community as an acting co-president of the LBS Out In Business Club… Read more

For the past seven years, the London Business School (LBS) Incubator Program has facilitated a wealth of new startups, helping a total of 57 companies and creating more than 150 new jobs. With more applicants now than ever before, the program has welcomed 10 new ventures to join for the upcoming the year. “The incubator makes the… Read more

Arching in the skyline of Serra Street overlooking the Knight Management Center complex, students at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) will be hard-pressed to miss the soon-to-be-completed Highland Hall. With its stark purple finish shimmering brightly in the California sun, the state-of-the-art building is a striking, modern accent to the campus. However, the most striking… Read more

For more than 40 years, MIT Sloan Economist Bengt Holmström has laid a foundation of formative work in contract theory. Now, finally, his work on the subject—along with that of Harvard Professor Oliver Hart—has been recognized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, earning the pair a Nobel Prize. Holmström, 67, is the fifth to win… Read more

Building on the successes of the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-Lab), established in 2011, and the Harvard Launch Lab, a start-up incubator that welcomed its first ventures in 2014, Harvard University will add another facility to the growing innovation corridor along Allston’s Western Avenue with the forthcoming Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab, scheduled to open next month. The… Read more

A week after Wharton students gathered in the wake of police shootings of Terence Crutcher and Keith Scott in Oklahoma City and Charlotte, it felt like the time for an open discussion on race open to the entire MBA community had arrived. Students joined together for an event organized by the Return on Equality (ROE) student coalition… Read more

The world’s largest gathering of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) graduate business school students is taking place now through October 8th in Dallas as Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA) hosts its 2016 LGBT MBA & Business Graduate Conference. The three-day conference, which this year centers around the theme of “Authentic Disruption,” aims to be much… Read more

Six years ago, researchers at Columbia and Harvard quickly gained recognition in the psychological science community with research they published suggesting that power poses—particular body stances and positioning held for limited periods of time—could lend themselves to increased feelings of power and tolerance for risk. The 2010 report, “Power Posing: Brief Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk… Read more

“Wisdom encompasses the essential aptitudes of confident humility,” reads the introduction to the new mission statement for Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, defining a new vision for the future of the New Hampshire business school. Speaking to the Tuck community, Dean Matthew J. Slaughter broke down the school’s newly refined outlook into a concise ten-word statement: “Tuck educates… Read more

While seldom the most important step in a student’s career, the value of orientation is nonetheless immeasurable for many. Often it creates a unique bond between the students and their new surroundings at an impossibly vital point during formative years. But after it’s over, it’s over, right? Not so fast, says Columbia Business School (CBS). Questioning why that special cohesion-building process… Read more

With the completion of the state-of-the-art Global Hub, the brand new epicenter of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, slated for the very near future, the Evanston business school received even more good news in the form of a $10.25-million donation from the Christopher B. Galvin Family Foundation. The foundation is run by former… Read more