Archive for December 2019

INSEAD calls itself the “business school of the world,” and backs that title up with three campuses on different continents, in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi. Now the school is adding a fourth. INSEAD’s new “San Francisco Hub for Business Innovation,” slated to open in February 2020, will give the European school a presence in…

About one in three graduates from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business head for the tech sector, according to the school’s 2019 employment report. Haas’s 2018 report was already notable for the proportion of graduates going into tech, but that percentage has continued to inch up, to 33 percent. No doubt that figure is thanks…

Yale School of Management has received a whopping $100 million gift that will go toward establishing education and research programs related to public education leadership. The gift, which is the largest in the school’s history, comes from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. That Foundation has supplied hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to…

The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School has announced a spicy new sports analytics initiative. Spicy because, as the Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative, the program will be known by the acronym “WSABI.” WSABI grows out of the Wharton Sports Business Initiative, WSBI, which dates back to 2008. The addition of an “A” to that…