It’s a great time to be a woman in business. According to a report by the Forté Foundation, the percentage of women enrolled in full-time MBA programs has been steadily increasing over the past few years. In 2011, women represented only one-third of all MBA students. Now, at top MBA programs across the country, such…

University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management has announced a $6 million gift that will be used to strengthen the school’s programs in the areas of healthcare and life sciences. The donation, which is from the Rotman family, will enable the school to extend its healthcare-related teaching and research as well as provide additional opportunities…

A team of four students from Yale School of Management has won the 2018 INNOVATEChina case competition with an app that connects older adults in China with social activities. Comprised of three MBA students and one Master of Advanced Management student, the team extends Yale SOM’s winning streak in the INNOVATEChina competition. Yale students have…

MBA Programs With the Most Female Students  MBA applications from female students are up six percentage points (to 39 percent) since 2013, according to data from GMAC. Still, gender parity remains an elusive goal at top business schools. Among top MBA programs, University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business have…

When you picture an MBA classroom, you might not immediately picture extreme landscapes like Patagonia or the Andes, but that’s exactly where students at University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business went as part of a new leadership course offered by the school. The course, called Extreme Leadership, grew from a trek a group…

Paying Your Way through a Booth MBA The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business has been getting excellent press lately. With its climb to the #1 spot, shared with Harvard, it is undoubtable that Booth will enjoy a healthy spike of applications in the cycles to come. Similarly to other business schools of like…

Sometimes the best resource MBA students have is each other, and the William P. Lauder Leadership Fellows Program at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School puts that idea into action. The program trains second-year MBA students at Wharton to teach and mentor first-year students.  Now, the Leadership Fellows Program is going to have a little extra…

 Once again, Harvard Business School is having to share the number one spot in U.S. News’s MBA rankings. This year, though, it’s sharing first place with University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business rather than Wharton.  And that wasn’t the only tie in these closely contested rankings. Here are the schools with the top ten…

Darden Worldwide Courses, the global study program at University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, says that “all students are expected to have a global experience during their time at Darden.”  Now, thanks to a $15 million donation and another $15 million matching donation, that ideal is becoming a reality. Together, the gifts will enable…

The Yale School of Management has announced that its dean, Edward “Ted” Snyder, will step down at the end of the 2018-2019 academic year.  Snyder came to Yale in 2011, having already been dean at University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. By almost any measure, his…