97 Posts Found

Top B-schools typically repay students’ investments in spades, but exclusive new data suggest women don’t share equally in the bounty.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Kurt Steinberg | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Business School News, MBA Program Rankings, Women & Minority MBA Issues

Fathers and sons sometimes have the proverbial difficult relationship. That seems to be the case with John A. Byrne, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of C-Change Media, with his creation: the famous – and infamous – BusinessWeek ranking of the world’s best business schools. Its first edition was published in 1988 and now – having seen the 13th edition – Byrne seems to have regrets. On LinkedIn … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Barbara Bierach | Source: MBA Channel | Subject: MBA Program Rankings

The intensity of business school can stretch beyond the classroom. As a student in an MBA program, you may find yourself spending much more time on campus than you initially expected, thanks to time spent working on group projects, participating in extracurricular committees and activities, networking with professors, and just plain hanging out. Campus can become like your second home, so it can be important … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: mbaprograms.org | Subject: MBA Program Rankings

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) is the largest public research body in Spain. Their Cybermetrics Lab, using quantitative methods, has designed and applied indicators that allow the measurement of scientific activity on the Web. The cybermetric indicators are useful to evaluate science and technology and they are the perfect complement to the results obtained with bibliometric methods in scientometric studies. The web indicators are … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: MBA Program Rankings

For some aspiring entrepreneurs, business school is like protective bubble wrap. Students get to leverage the experiences of faculty and alumni to test their ideas. Prize money doled out at business plan competitions allows for experimentation. And the support of student entrepreneurship circles may take some of the sting out of pursuing a solo endeavor. But do some schools provide more support than others when … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Erin Zlomek | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: MBA Program Rankings

University courses in entrepreneurship are better—more useful, more real, more likely to produce actual companies—than they have ever been. Here are 10 we’d love to take.

Editor’s Note: I am not sure how many of these are MBA courses vs. undergraduate

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: MBA Program Rankings

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

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

The dean of UT Dallas’ business school explains why he joined a crowded field of business school ranking competitors and what separates his approach from the others.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: Hasan Pirkul, Neelima Mahajan-Bansal | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: MBA Program Rankings

Media rankings of MBA programs do a poor job of assessing quality. Three professors propose a rating system that allows users to define the terms.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: Erich Dierdorff, Frederick P. Morgeson, Robert S. Rubin | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: MBA Program Rankings

The University of Texas at Dallas has for several years published this ranking of business schools based on the productivity of their researchers.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Subject: MBA Program Rankings

Choosing a B-school can be a gamble. MBA applicants shouldn’t rely on rankings alone, but the data they include are a valuable resource, admissions experts say.

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

In partnership with The Princeton Review, Entrepreneur magazine has compiled a list of 16 top schools for green MBAs based on a survey of students and administrators at 325 graduate schools of business.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Leslie Guevarra | Source: GreenBiz.com | Subject: MBA Program Rankings

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

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

Not even ten years ago the Executive MBA (EMBA) world was quite different from today. Multi-school, multi-campus programs were rare, their development even endangered when – after the terrorist attacks of September 11 – travelling on international routes became less desirable. Despite those poor beginnings the EMBA programs have grown strongly ever since. The Financial Times reports that between 2001 and 2010 the number of … [ Read more ]

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Barbara Barkhausen | Source: MBA Channel | Subjects: Executive Programs, MBA Program Rankings