MBA News
A collection of news items from MBA programs and about the business school admissions process.
Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management Adds New Courses on Big Data
Big data matters in today’s business world as never before. Recognizing this, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management is working to establish a strong reputation in data analytics. This fall, as part of its MBA curriculum, Kellogg will offer four new courses designed to help prepare students to interpret big data and put it to…
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Tuck School of Business Welcomes BlackRock Executive as Senior Fellow
Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business this month welcomed a top BlackRock Investment Institute executive as a senior fellow at its Center for Global Business and Government, the school announced last week. Peter Fisher, BlackRock senior director and a former top Treasury Department official, joined Tuck on July 1st. He will hold the position while continuing…
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Columbia Business School Appoints New Associate Dean for MBA Program
Columbia Business School (CBS) has appointed a new associate dean for its MBA program, the school announced last week. Michael Malone will assume the associate dean position on August 15th, a role in which he will be focused on the administration of the MBA and Executive MBA programs, including management of the MBA Office of…
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UCLA Anderson School of Management to Become Financially Self-Supporting
Beginning with the 2014-15 academic year, the UCLA Anderson School of Management will no longer rely on state funding but will instead be completely self-supporting, the school reported last week. University of California President Mark Yudof approved the school’s proposed status change for its full-time MBA program on June 24th, ending a three-year review process.…
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Six Yale SOM Students Selected for Yale Entrepreneurial Institute Fellowships
Five current MBA students and one recent graduate of the Yale School of Management (SOM) have been selected through a competitive process to be among this summer’s fellows at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (YEI), the school announced earlier this month. To date, the YEI Summer Fellowship – open to students and teams throughout the university…
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UC Berkeley-Haas Graduates Enjoy Strong Employment Opportunities
Early employment data shows that MBA graduates from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley are landing top jobs and top salaries, the school reports. The firms hiring the most Haas graduates this year include McKinsey & Co., Google, JPMorgan, Kaiser and Amazon, and salaries and signing bonuses are continuing…
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Co-Founder Eliot Ingram Named CEO of Clear Admit
Clear Admit is pleased to announce that co-founder Eliot Ingram has assumed the role of CEO. He succeeds former CEO Graham Richmond, who recently launched Southwark Consulting, a firm that advises graduate admissions offices on enrollment best practices. “I look forward to taking over full leadership of Clear Admit and positioning the firm for its…
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UC Berkeley Haas Partners with MIT Sloan on Energy Efficiency Research Project
Researchers at the Haas School of Management at the University of California at Berkeley are teaming up with researchers at the MIT Sloan School of Management to take a closer look at energy-efficiency policies and regulations around the globe to determine whether they are realizing their full potential, the schools announced this week. The project,…
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Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business Confers First MBA/MPH Joint Degrees
Two members of the graduating Class of 2013 at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business earned not only an MBA while there but also a master’s degree in public health (MPH). Kate Head and Catherine Augustyn were the first recipients of the new joint degree, which Tuck now offers in partnership with The Dartmouth Institute…
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AIGAC Releases 2013 MBA Applicant Survey Results
The average applicant to business school spends between 90 and 140 hours on the MBA application process, according to findings from the 2013 Applicant Survey conducted by the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC). Excluding GMAT prep, applicants report that they spend between 70 and 110 hours on the application itself. AIGAC released the…
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Top Business Schools Help Students Who Head into Lower Paying Fields
Taking on debt to finance an MBA program only to take a job at a low-paying nonprofit organization after business school doesn’t add up to graduates being able to repay their loans. Fortunately, many top business schools have created programs to help ease the financial burden for those who go into nonprofit or other low-paying…
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