Can I Still Get Admitted to B-School in Round 2?
The end of October is upon us, and Round 1 deadlines for pretty much all MBA programs have passed. Are you thinking about applying to business school in Round 2 – or wondering if you should even bother? It’s completely natural to feel intimidated by the idea of applying in Round 2. The competition is…
Read MoreHaas Publishes Diversity Plan After Drop in African-American MBA Students
University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has published a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Action Plan, acknowledging a “disappointing decline in the number of African American students enrolled in the Full-time Berkeley MBA Program.” This year, Haas enrolled just six black students in its 291-person MBA cohort. That’s down from 10 students out of…
Read MoreStanford GSB Releases Stats on MBA Class of 2020
Stanford Graduate School Business is, according to Financial Times’s MBA rankings, the best MBA program in the world. So who is the typical Stanford MBA student? To the extent that numbers can tell the story, Stanford GSB’s new Class of 2020 profile gives us some insight in to that question. Introducing the class profile, Stanford…
Read MoreCornell Has a New Dean
The Cornell SC Johnson College of Business has drawn from within the university’s ranks in its search for a permanent dean, announcing the appointment of Kevin Hallock, who will start as dean of the business school in December. Hallock is currently dean of Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He’s also an economist whose…
Read MoreHaas Releases Stats on MBA Class of 2020
The University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business’s MBA class continues to grow, according to the latest class profile from the school. While last year’s cohort brought a record 284 students to campus, thanks to the opening of a new building, the increase this year is more modest, to 291. Still, those seven extra…
Read MoreHBS Gets $5 Million to Add AI Case Studies
Harvard Business School’s case method is getting a twenty-first century upgrade. The school announced that it has received a $5 million gift that will go toward creating case studies focused on artificial intelligence. The donation, from Blackstone chairman, CEO and cofounder Stephen Schwarzman, launches the Schwarzman Research Fund, which will be used to support HBS…
Read MoreMIT Sloan’s Class of 2020 Profile
MIT’s Sloan School of Management is the latest top business school to release information on its MBA Class of 2020. In releasing its class profile, MIT Sloan highlighted its commitment to building a diverse class, an emphasis it shares with other top B-schools. It said that “students’ diversity both shapes and drives the incredible opportunities…
Read MoreColumbia Dean to Step Down After 15 Years
It’s the end of an era at Columbia Business School. After 15 years on the job, dean Glenn Hubbard will step down in July 2019 and return to teaching. Announcing Hubbard’s departure, Columbia University president Lee Bollinger hailed the dean’s tenure as “an historic period during which Columbia Business School was strengthened on every meaningful…
Read MoreWharton Releases 2020 MBA Class Profile
The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School has unveiled a profile of its latest MBA cohort. Despite a 7 percent drop in applications this year – from 6,692 to 6,245 – this year’s class is quite similar to last year’s, at least as far as the numbers go. Demographically, the Class of 2020 is almost identical…
Read MoreMichigan Ross Releases 2020 MBA Class Profile
University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business is feeling pretty positive about their MBA Class of 2020. Announcing the release of their latest class profile, Ross summarized their thoughts on the situation by declaring that it just keeps getting better and better. That phrase references the paradox of MBA admissions at top schools: as competitive…
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