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Professors at Top MBA Programs Offer Advice for Incoming MBAs
As MBA programs begin to kick into high gear, the Financial Times sat down with leading professors from some of the top business schools from around the globe to ask their advice on how students can get the most out of their education. These professors—from Chicago Booth, Oxford Saïd, IE Business... Read more »
Large, Top-Tier U.S. Graduate Business School Programs Skirt Otherwise Prevalent Application Volume Decline
Large U.S. graduate business programs—those with more than 200 students—report that times are good. In fact, three in four (73 percent) of these programs saw application volume increase this year, according to the 2017 Application Trends Survey, released yesterday by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC). But the news is not... Read more »
Choosing the Best Business School for Consulting
If you are a prospective MBA applicant looking to business school as a way to enter or accelerate your career in the consulting industry, you are certainly not alone. According to the 2017 Prospective Student Survey conducted by the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), consulting is once again the most sought-after... Read more »
Michigan Ross Class of 2019: Record-Setting GMAT Score, 14-Year High for Minority Students
The official University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business Class of 2019 profile reveals that this year’s incoming class is the school’s most academically successful class yet, as well as one of its most diverse. The incoming full-time MBA Class of 2019 is made up of 422 students, 43 percent of... Read more »
Marketing Analytics in Business and the MBA
Analytics are invaluable in marketing decision-making, but many firms lack personnel with the skills needed to compile the data and leverage this information. According to the CMO Survey, a biannual report that provides insight into the field of marketing, marketing analytics are used to make 37.5 percent of business decisions—but... Read more »
Real Humans of MBA Admissions: Pascal Michels of IESE
Our Real Humans of MBA Admissions Series this week takes us to beautiful Barcelona, where we caught up with Pascal Michels on what he tells us was the first day his new job as head of IESE MBA admissions began to feel real. In fact, he stepped into the role... Read more »
With Cornell Tech, New York, Cornell, and Johnson Are Placing a Big Bet
New York City and State elite came out in droves yesterday for the celebratory dedication of the stunning new campus and facilities on Roosevelt Island known as Cornell Tech. It’s been just seven short years since aides to then Mayor Michael Bloomberg came up with the idea to solicit proposals... Read more »
From Beijing to Toronto: An International Rotman MBA Student Shares Transition Tips
We love featuring student experiences here in Fridays from the Frontline and couldn’t help but notice this great post from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management on second-year student Haolin Zhang (MBA ’18). A Chinese native with solid work experience in marketing at P&G and Mars, Zhang was... Read more »
Top MBA Programs for Producing Founders: 2017-2018 Report
Recently, PitchBook released its latest 2017-2018 Top 50 Universities Report. The ranking focused on those universities that produced the “ultimate building blocks of the venture industry: founders.” This ranking is vastly different from rankings of top schools for entrepreneurship by U.S. News & World Report, Princeton Review, and Entrepreneur Magazine, all... Read more »
Rotman School MBAs Offered New Opportunities to Explore Gender Equality
The University of Toronto Rotman School of Management welcomed its newest class of MBA students with two new opportunities to explore gender equality. The first was a $50,000 Gender & the Economy Fellowship program competition, an initiative of the newly launched Institute for Gender and the Economy research center. Through... Read more »
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