The MBA application process is starting to change, with the GRE gaining ground on the GMAT, earlier deadlines, and some schools experimenting with audio and video.

Business schools need to focus on bootstrapping, not only raising money from VCs.

A new study finds problems--and progress--with pay and promotions for women MBAs.

TeachStreet, Yelp-like service for real world classes, is rolling out a partner promotion with Kaplan Test Prep, and a number of MBA/GMAT/GRE content providers. The GMAT site will provide free tools to build an individualized study plan, customized to a student’s test date. The site will also list local and online test preparation course providers,. And the sites will allows you to compare the providers based on Price, User Ratings, Location, Start Date, Duration, Online/Local, Group/1:1, Guaranteed Results and more.

TeachStreet will allso give users access to free GMAT practice tests and questions from GMAT Club, Grockit, JumboTests, Magoosh and PrepForTests, guides to the best test prep books, and background information a test taker needs, including test format descriptions, scoring, point ranges, official testing websites, and average scores for top colleges.

Distance-learning MBA programs are resoundingly successful. The Economist takes an in-depth look at the sector.
* Should an MBA be open to anyone?
* How a distance-learning MBA works
* Distance-learning diary
* Reader debate: Should distance-learning MBAs be considered inferior?
* Download the full report, including a rating of selected programmes

Blair Sheppard, dean of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, discusses how the expectations of MBA students are changing—and why the traditional MBA education needs to change as well.

Are CEOs with MBAs actually stronger leaders? The answer might depend on the age of the CEO.

Inspired by the raging debate last year over the role of MBAs in the financial crisis, we tried to analyze whether having an MBA influences overall CEO performance. In a large-scale study of CEO performance since they took office, we found that other things equal, MBA CEOs had a slight performance edge over their non-MBA peers.

Business schools are realizing that students need to learn how to think critically and creatively every bit as much as they needed to learn finance or accounting.

The great Winston Churchill once observed that he liked learning but hated being taught. Similarly many colleagues facing an internationally diverse group may like teaching them but hate having to translate and interpret at the same time as teaching their module. Most business schools now have some form of student exchange program in place, which means the adjective ‘international’ can be employed liberally in all their communication towards prospective students : are they therefore “international business schools”?

Alternatives to the M.B.A.can be shorter, more focused and offer an increasingly attractive option to a two-year general business degree.