Archive for July 2018

IMD has announced the winners in the “special edition” of its 2018/2019 Startup Competition. The ventures will now begin collaborating with members of IMD’s Executive MBA class, culminating in a trip to Silicon Valley to pitch for funding. IMD launched its Startup Competition in 1998 and has since seen 400 ventures pass through the program.…

Temple University’s Fox School of Business began this year the way any school with an online MBA program would want to: by securing its fourth straight year as the top-ranked program in U.S. News’s Online MBA Rankings. As it turned out, though, Temple’s first-place finish was only the first chapter in a more complicated story.…

You’ve identified someone you want to write an MBA recommendation, talked to them about your plans for business school, and asked them for a letter … only to be turned down. What went wrong? There are a number of reasons a potential recommender might decline to write a letter on your behalf. Here are eight…

University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has named Laura D’Andrea Tyson the school’s interim dean starting in July. Tyson is a Haas professor and an economist whose research lately has focused on automation and the role of technological change in work. Tyson knows her way around Haas, having joined the Berkeley economics department…