42 Posts found for Author: John A. Byrne

The business school’s student newspaper has offered a revealing portrait of the admissions process and offers up 96 interview questions.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Getting In

As top schools continue to move into the online market, the quality of the students opting to earn degrees on the web is increasing as well.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Online & Distance MBA

Hubbard discusses the anxiety in MBA programs, Columbia’s MBA application plunge, and why alum Warren Buffett has not donated.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Sources: FORTUNE, Poets & Quants | Subject: About the MBA Degree

A look at what happens behind closed doors as the University of Toronto’s Rotman School’s separates the B-school applicant wheat from the chaff.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Getting In

With $3,000 of seed capital from Harvard Business School, around 150 MBA teams were tasked with developing their very own micro-businesses in short order. Here’s what they came up with.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Business School News

As business schools begin to invite candidates for admissions interviews, HBS’s newspaper has published its unofficial guide to the process. What questions should you expect?

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Sources: FORTUNE, Poets & Quants | Subject: Getting In

Which business schools have produced the most entrepreneurs?

A recently published LinkedIn study examined the backgrounds of members who identify themselves as startup founders and came up with the leading schools for entrepreneurs.

The results dramatically differ from the two most-cited yet deeply flawed rankings of leading entrepreneurial programs by Princeton Review and U.S. News & World Report.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: BNET | Subject: MBA Program Rankings

Senior lecturer Scott Snook has tracked 50 MBA students at Harvard Business School from the moment they received their offer letter to the time they graduated two years later. “It is probably the most exhaustive study ever done at Harvard Business School on what is the true experience of students,” says Dean Nitin Nohria. “Scott explored a basic question: We promise to deliver a transformational … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: About the MBA Degree

How one retired professor made a fortune by co-authoring a textbook that would shape how generations of MBA students learned finance.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

One of the most valuable assets of a top-ranked business school is its alumni network. It’s a major consideration by applicants in choosing an MBA program, and it’s a significant sign of a school’s true brand strength in the marketplace.

But it’s also something that is hard to measure. There is no available metric that will let you know how often the alumni network at a … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: MBA Program Rankings, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Men outpace women by a significant margin when it comes to earning academic honors at Harvard Business School. What’s behind the gap?

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Women & Minority MBA Issues

Every year, admissions officials from top MBA programs across the country gather in a St. Louis hotel to dole out millions in funds from the single largest MBA scholarship fund in the world.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Financing Your MBA, Getting In, Women & Minority MBA Issues

MBA candidates who have less than stellar web histories or happen to share a name with a convicted murderer should know that admissions teams are watching, and searching. There’s hope, though.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Sources: FORTUNE, Poets & Quants | Subject: Getting In

While the U.S. has long dominated the world of business education, European and Asian schools are ratcheting up the competition. Graduate Management Admission Council CEO Dave Wilson explains why he’d rather his child head to China for biz school over Harvard.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: International MBA Issues

Methodology: Schools on each of the five major rankings were scored from a high of 100 to a low of 1, the numerical rank of the 100th school on any one list. Then, those sums were brought together, weighting the BusinessWeek ranking 30%, the Forbes ranking 25%, the U.S. News & World Report rankings 20%, the Financial Times rankings 15%, and The Economist ranking 10%. … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: MBA Program Rankings

This new P&Q list is a composite of four major MBA rankings published by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The Economist, The Financial Times, and Forbes. The ranking takes into account a massive wealth of quantitative and qualitative data captured in the five major lists, from surveys of corporate recruiters, MBA graduates, deans and faculty publication records to median GPA and GMAT scores of entering students as well … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: MBA Program Rankings

How is it possible that the five major rankings of business schools all have different winners at the top? How can they rank a single school, such as UCLA, so differently? Chalk it up to the differing ways each publication cranks out its list of the best. The different methodologies employed for these rankings have as much if not more to do with where … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Source: Poets & Quants | Subject: MBA Program Rankings

A pair of MBA students at MIT have set their satirical gun sights on the business school world and MBAs with a web show that’s steadily developing a cult following.

Content: Article | Author: John A. Byrne | Sources: FORTUNE, Poets & Quants | Subject: MBA Related

Poets & Quants was created by John A. Byrne, the man who spearheaded a new M.B.A. ranking while working at BusinessWeek in the late 1980s. According to Byrne, the site aims to eventually give students in-depth looks at hundreds of degree programs, including what he calls the brutal truth about facilities, teaching methods and reputations. And, according to the site’s about page, the goal is … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John A. Byrne | Subjects: About the MBA Degree, Choosing a Program, Getting In

“Although managers were supposed to be graded on teamwork, Enron was actually far more reflective of a survival-of-the-fittest mind-set. The culture was heavily built around star players with little value attached to team-building. The upshot: The organization rewarded highly competitive people who were less likely to share power, authority, or information. Indeed, some believe the extreme focus on individual ambition undermined any teamwork or institutional … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: John A. Byrne, Mike France, Wendy Zellner | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior