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Would you travel over 14,000 miles every other weekend for an MBA? These hardy souls do it and don’t have too many qualms about the payback either.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Andrea Carter | Sources: FORTUNE, Poets & Quants | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

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

Relationships do survive business school, but it’s important that you know what you and your partner are signing up for if you want to be one of the triumphant ones.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: Carrie Shuchart, Chris Ryan | Sources: FORTUNE, Poets & Quants | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

John Warrillow doesn’t think entrepreneurship can be taught. Further, he thinks not only is getting an MBA a waste of money and two years of your life; it may also, in fact, reduce your chances of building a successful business. Here are four reasons why.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John Warrillow | Source: BNET | Subject: About the MBA Degree

To improve your chances when reapplying to an MBA program, make a few key improvements to your application, apply early, and have a backup plan.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Francesca Di Meglio | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Getting In

FIND MBA is a global directory of over 2,000 MBA programs and a community for prospective MBA students. We publish regular MBA-related news, articles, and interviews, and we host one of the most active community discussion boards on the topic.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: Choosing a Program

Corporate hiring managers are increasingly complaining that M.B.A. grads have terrible writing skills, and more b-schools are trying to address the problem.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Diana Middleton | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

At the Smeal College of Business, dozens of MBA applicants who plagiarized admissions essays on “principled leadership” were shown the door. They won’t be the last.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Alison Damast | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Business School News, 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

Information overload makes finding the right B-school more difficult than it needs to be. Here’s how to find what you need, and toss what you don’t.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Francesca Di Meglio | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Choosing a Program

GMAC solicited ideas for transforming management education and got more than 650, including 20 winning entries. Now comes the hard part: implementing them.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Alison Damast | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

About five years ago, Warren Bennis and James O’Toole penned an article for the Harvard Business Review called “How Business Schools Lost Their Way.” It was, in many ways, the shot heard round the world. (I was visiting b-schools in China when it came out and people were talking about it there. The same day.) Their premise: that way too much of what passes for … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Louis Lavelle | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

With the Dec. 1, 2009 sale of Businessweek to Bloomberg LP, the magazine’s former owner, the McGraw-Hill Companies, officially exited the b-school ranking business. It now appears that the company wants back in. Credit Rating and Information Services of India (CRISIL), a rating agency that’s majority owned by McGraw-Hill’s Standard & Poor’s unit, yesterday announced the launch of a new rating service for business schools.

CRISIL … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Louis Lavelle | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: International MBA Issues, MBA Program Rankings

To create a different kind of B-school graduate, a dean argues that a key first step is creating a different kind of B-school culture.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Rich Lyons | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Most MBA programs are good at something, even if they’re not ranked among the greats. Lower-ranked schools take top honors for accounting, marketing, and more.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Geoff Gloeckler | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: MBA Program Rankings

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

Over the years, Bloomberg Businessweek has been criticized for a lack of transparency concerning our ranking methodology. So in an effort to be responsive to those complaints, we recently made a change to the interactive tables we published on Nov. 11, as part of our ranking of full-time MBA programs.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Louis Lavelle | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: MBA Program Rankings

Here’s a chance for the world’s MBA students to put their expensive education to work and maybe even make a few bucks in the process.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Louis Lavelle | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: B-School Events & Competitions