Archive for February 2018

The Darden Capital Management program at University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business has notched a new milestone: $15 million in assets. That accomplishment comes as a result of years of growth and additional funds from the Darden School Foundation’s Board of Trustees.  Started in 1990 with $250,000 in seed money, the Darden Capital Management…

Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business has declared 2017 a “banner year for scholarship fundraising,” and even that might be understating it.  For one thing, 2017 brought Tuck its largest ever gift, courtesy of Paul Raether, a member of Tuck’s Board of Overseers. In December, Raether and his family gave $15 million for scholarship funding.…

As the spring 2018 cohort at UC Berkeley’s SkyDeck startup accelerator gets down to work, they have an additional tool at their disposal: the opportunity to collaborate with MBA students at the university’s Haas School of Business. That’s thanks to the Haas Startup Squad, which has started matching MBA students looking to get involved in…

There are a lot of ways you can rank MBA programs. Rankings like the ones from Financial Times and U.S. News use complex methodologies that combine factors ranging from alum earnings to admissions selectivity. A simpler way of analyzing programs is just to look at which schools boast the highest average GMAT scores. You probably…

In early January, teams from top business schools converged on Deloitte University, Deloitte’s leadership development center in Dallas, TX. Representing schools from MIT’s Sloan School of Management to Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, the teams were gathered for a shot at winning $20,000 of scholarship money in Deloitte’s annual MBA Case Competition. Ultimately, it was…

Stanford Graduate School of Business has announced some of the steps it will take to improve transparency and move forward from a controversy surrounding its financial aid process that became public in late 2017. Last November, it emerged that between the years 2008 and 2016, Stanford GSB had been distributing financial aid based on criteria…

Financial Times has released it’s 2018 Global MBA Ranking – which is good news for Stanford Graduate School of Business, this year’s first-place winner. Here are FT’s top ten MBA programs this year: – Stanford Graduate School of Business – INSEAD – Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania – London Business School – Harvard Business School…

I’m often asked questions by MBA applicants regarding career choices and what they should do to prepare for their application. These questions can run the gamut, from whether to remain at a job or take on a different position, so when is the optimal time to apply for their MBA. I’m going to address a…