Why American B-School Students Can’t Stand Teamwork

Compared with MBA students from other global regions, more Americans say they’d rather not collaborate on projects with peers.

B-schools’ Love-Hate Relationship with Rankings

The good: B-schools rely on rankings as a benchmark against their peers, a third-party guide for students, and a marketing tool. The bad: They are potentially flawed and unquestionably a resource drain. Oh, and they’re a potential PR disaster in the making.

The Dunbar Number, From the Guru of Social Networks

Evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar, working with the anthropologist Russell Hill, pieced together the average English household’s Christmas card network. The researchers were able to report, for example, that about a quarter of cards went to relatives, nearly two-thirds to friends, and 8 percent to colleagues. The primary finding of the study, however, was a single number: the total population of the households each set of … [ Read more ]

Putting Critical Reasoning in ‘Context’

The context is meant to ensure that the critical reasoning section is not a vocabulary test. It also serves to distract test-takers.

How Business Schools Create Irresponsible Leaders

Most business schools have spent the past decade making their programs global in scope, which tends to mean sending students to foreign lands for immersion programs. The model they’re using, however, creates leaders that are dangerously out of touch with the context in which they’re running businesses.

Think With Your Pen and Take Control of the GMAT

Some GMAT test-takers have the idea that not writing much on the note board is the way to score high on the GMAT. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Word Order Does Not Matter on Sentence Correction

Word order often does not matter on sentence correction. To put it another way, on Sentence Correction, the order of the words often does not matter.

The Most Important Moment in a Problem-Solving Question

With problem-solving questions, there are moments—often just one but occasionally two, or even more—when you have to make a decision that is not dictated by the problem or by the rules of math. This is when you have to slow down and think about how to proceed. This is the “moment” that can make this question work for you or can send you off in … [ Read more ]

The Wrong Way to Judge an Entrepreneurship Course

Entrepreneurship programs are ubiquitous at business schools. So how do you measure the course designed to instill the startup spirit?

A Universal Template for the GMAT Essay: Part I

The Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) comes first on the GMAT exam, but it is often the last section a student studies. If are new to the AWA section or just looking for an efficient way to structure your essay, you will find this template useful.