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Published: March 23, 2014
Fewer Grads from European MBA Programs Are Heading Into Finance
Far fewer MBA students from Europe’s top business schools are choosing careers in finance than they have in the past, opting instead for jobs at Facebook, Amazon and other tech firms, according to a recent report in the Financial News.
London Business School (LBS), Cambridge’s Judge Business School, Oxford’s Saïd Business School, INSEAD and HEC Paris all report significant drops in the number of MBAs who have accepted full-time roles and internships at finance firms as the heaviest portion of the annual recruiting season comes to an end.
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Published: January 26, 2014
Harvard Business School Again Tops Financial Times Global MBA Ranking
Harvard Business School (HBS) appeared at the top of the Financial Times Global MBA annual ranking, released yesterday. It was HBS’ second consecutive claim to the number-one spot and its fifth time topping the rankings since they debuted in 1999. Stanford Graduate School of Business also remained steady this year, reclaiming the number-two spot it held last year. The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania slipped to fourth as London Business School stepped into the number-three spot. Columbia Business School and INSEAD tied for fifth.
The FT compiles its annual global MBA rankings based on two surveys of the business schools and their alumni. (For this year rankings, alumni who graduated in 2010 were surveyed.) Based on the responses to these surveys, the MBA programs are measured according to the career progression of their alumni, the school’s idea generation and the diversity of students and faculty.
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Published: January 20, 2014
London Business School, Lloyds Launch New Scholarship Program for Women
In an effort to increase the representation of women in post-graduate management education and in the business world as a whole, Lloyds Banking Group has launched a new scholarship program for women applicants to London Business School (LBS), the school announced today.
Citing research showing that limited financial resources present a core barrier to women seeking to pursue an MBA, the bank has established the Lloyds Scholars MBA Scholarship for Women. As part of the new program, Lloyds will award four £30,000 scholarships per year for each of the next four years.
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Published: November 11, 2013
London Business School Incubator Announces This Year’s Start-Ups
London Business School (LBS) has selected 13 start-up ventures to join its incubator program, which means they will benefit from a cash injection for their business, office space within the incubator for one year, access to professional support and training and more, the school announced this month
The school’s Deloitte Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Incubator each year selects a group of graduate entrepreneurs who are launching their own businesses. This year’s winning start-ups span the technology, food and beverage, property and transportation sectors, the school notes.
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Published: November 3, 2013
European Business Schools Host Joint Asia-Focused Career Fair
Five leading business schools in Europe joined forces to host a career fair for companies seeking MBA graduates for work in Asia, the Financial Times reports. London Business School (LBS) hosted the November 2nd Asia Career Fair, together with HEC Paris, IESE, IMD and the Rotterdam School of Management. The event included company presentations, interviews and networking opportunities between students and 18 participating companies, including Johnson & Johnson, Bloomberg, Accenture and Shell.
“The idea is to make the life of the recruiter as easy as possible,” Javier Muñoz, MBA Career Services director at Spain’s IESE, told the FT. IESE hosted an earlier event in which the top European schools collaborated to connect students with recruiters from Latin America.
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Published: October 30, 2013
London Business School Launches New Luxury Management Program
MBA students interested in careers in the luxury sector can now take advantage of a specialized program launched this week by London Business School, in partnership with Walpole British Luxury.
The new “Luxury Management” program, designed to complement LBS’s MBA curriculum, will include a series of lectures developed and delivered by leaders in the luxury field in conjunction with LBS’s marketing faculty. Scheduled lecturers include Mark Henderson, chairman of Gieves & Hawkes; Gillian de Bono, editor of Financial Times ‘How to Spend It’ magazine; and Jonathan Ackeroyd, president and CEO of Alexander McQueen. Lectures will covering topics including luxury fundamentals, the creative process and retail and e-tail experience and management.
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Published: September 26, 2013
London Business School Receives $40 Million Gift, Hopes to Reach $160 Million in Five Years
Billionaire Israeli industrialist Idan Ofer has given $40 million to his alma mater, London Business School (LBS), to help fund the transformation of a historic London building into a new state-of-the-art educational facility, the school announced yesterday. The gift, made through the Batia and Idan Ofer Family Foundation, is the largest in the school’s history and kicks off a fundraising campaign LBS hopes will raise $160 million over the next five years. Ofer’s gift will help transform Old Marylebone Town Hall, acquired by LBS last year, and fund construction of a new three-story building featuring six lecture theatres, a
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Published: September 16, 2013
Career Services Director Q&A: London Business School’s Fiona Sandford
Career Services Director Fiona Sandford joined London Business School (LBS) in October 2010, after serving for nearly a decade as the director of career services at the London School of Economics. Since arriving at LBS, she has been helping to develop a new model to more seamlessly integrate soft skills development into the school’s career services offerings.
In the interview that follows, you’ll learn more about that new model, as well as who makes up Sandford’s team, how the recruiting process at LBS unfolds and what students can do before arriving on campus to position themselves well for the job search they will conduct there. So read on!
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Published: August 7, 2013
GMAC Commissions New Book on Challenges Facing Business Education
The Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), which owns and administers the GMAT exam, has commissioned a new book examining challenges confronting graduate management education, from technological advancements and globalization to how to measure program quality other than through rankings.
Disrupt or Be Disrupted: A Blueprint for Change in Management Education, out this month, contains contributions from leading academics and thinkers such as Harvard Business School Professor Rakesh Khurana and Former INSEAD Dean Dipak Jain on how to reimagine curriculum content and delivery, student engagement, faculty development and more.
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