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INSEAD has received a record-setting donation from a donor who will remain anonymous, the school announced this week. That donation is worth a cool €60 million, or currently about $66 million. It beats the school’s previous record, a €40 million donation the school received in 2018 that went to establish the Hoffman Global Institute for…

Another week, and another multimillion dollar donation for the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School to expand its programs.  Last week brought a $5 million donation to launch AI for Business under the school’s Wharton Analytics initiative. Now, with an anonymous $10 million gift, the school will grow its Wharton Neuroscience Initiative, also abbreviated as WiN. …

Besides degree programs like MBAs and EMBAs, top business schools frequently offer executive education courses in specific topics, either tailored to corporate clients or open to anyone who wants to participate. For both types of categories, Financial Times draws up global rankings every year. This week, FT released its 2020 executive education rankings.  According to…

A year after creating the Wharton Analytics initiative, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School is further extending its commitment to analytics and data with a new program called AI for Business. The new program is being launched thanks to a $5 million gift from Wharton alumni Tao Zhang and Selina Chin. With AI for Business,…

With the world changing in fast and unpredictable ways this year, top business schools have rolled out a range of adjustments to their typical admissions processes, from extended deadlines to GMAT waivers.  The latest such adjustment comes from Harvard Business School, which has decided to give all admitted MBA students the option to defer enrollment…

The University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has announced that it is creating its own stimulus package of sorts, directed at MBA students seeking summer internships.  Haas’s newly unveiled “MBA Summer Internship Stimulus Fund” will provide eligible students with stipends of up to $5,000 to close the gap for businesses that can no…

Case competitions may have gone remote, but they haven’t gone away. One example comes from the Oxford Global Private Equity Challenge. This new competition, run by the Oxford Private Equity Institute, was scheduled to launch at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School this spring. Instead, the inaugural competition took place virtually with a prize…

Top business schools are adjusting and innovating in response to the unexpected changes that COVID-19 has brought. Since B-schools are all about providing an education in management, some schools are trying to take the current public health crisis as a unique chance to learn. The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, for example, rolled out a…

Among the many logistical questions social distancing has created is one especially relevant to MBA applicants: how to take the GMAT? GMAC, the creators of the standardized test, put forward a solution by offering the GMAT virtually. So far, the response from test takers has been less than fully enthusiastic, with some expressing frustrations over…

The latest top business school to join the STEM club is Yale School of Management, which just announced that three of its degree programs are now considered STEM programs by the Department of Homeland Security. That change means international students enrolled in those programs will now be eligible to extend the period of time during…