Columbia B-school’s Glenn Hubbard: Is an MBA worth it?
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 Job Source for the Wandering MBA
Daniel Mullaney’s MBA Project Search offers B-school grads a glimpse into the freelance and consulting worlds outside the confines of their school’s career services office.
Content: Article | Author: Lauren Everitt | Sources: FORTUNE, Poets & Quants | Subjects: Career, MBA Related
Harvard’s unofficial guide to the MBA interview
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
The Four Curriculums of a Great MBA
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
Can a dog still earn an MBA?
Rochville University was made famous for granting an online MBA to a dog named Chester two years ago. Has the institution cleaned up its act?
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: John Hendel | Sources: FORTUNE, Poets & Quants | Subject: Online & Distance MBA
Best B-School Alumni Networks
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
Meet the MBA road warriors
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 hopefuls: Need to scrub your social media profile?
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
How to care for and feed your MBA student
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
Poets&Quants’ Top 100 MBA Programs in the U.S.
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
Poets&Quants Top 50 MBA Programs Outside the U.S.
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
Turning the Tables: Ranking the MBA 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
The Daily Show for MBAs
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