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What do FastFloss, the “comfortable, easy and quick way to floss all your teeth at once” and Waypoint, a system that uses “augmented reality to train frontline workers on complex process using holographic workflows,” have in common? That’s easy – both are projects that have been selected to participate in Harvard Business School’s Rock Accelerator…

So much has been written about when you should apply to business school. There are tons of articles about the average age for US schools (27-28 years) and international schools (29 years). A lot has been written about when to apply, round one versus round two. And articles abound on the transformative impact of the…

The Economist has released its 2017 ranking of full-time MBA programs. This year, Kellogg has grabbed the number one spot. Overall, the top ten are: – Kellogg School of Management – Booth School of Business – Harvard Business School – The Wharton School – Stanford Graduate School of Business – UCLA Anderson School of Management – Haas School of Business – Tuck School…

A team of students from the Wharton School have won Tesla’s first MBA case competition, which means they will be offered internships at Tesla this summer. Held at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business, the competition brought together a dozen teams from business schools on multiple continents. The starting point for the Tesla case competition…

Financial Times has released its 2017 ranking of Executive MBA programs, with the Kellogg-HKUST EMBA program holding onto its number one place from last year. The top ten programs on FT’s list are: – Kellogg-HKUST – EMBA-Global Asia – Tsinghua-INSEAD – EMBA-Global Americas & Europe – TRIUM – Antai College of Economics and Management – Olin Business School – INSEAD – Saïd Business School…

In the twenty years I have been in the admissions business I have come across many interesting questions from applicants. I’m sometimes struck by the wrong perception applicants have and I’ll highlight some of the important ones that I believe serious business school applicants should know the answer to before they apply to their dream…

Forbes’s latest round of MBA rankings is out, with pleasant surprises for IMD and Wharton in particular. Forbes divides their rankings into three categories: United States MBA programs, international one-year MBA programs, and international two-year programs. In the international one-year category, IMD came out on top: 1.IMD 2.INSEAD 3.IE Business School 4.Cambridge (Judge) 5.SDA Bocconi…

Yale School of Management has announced a new dual master’s degree, created in partnership with four other global business schools. Students participating in the program will receive a master’s degree from one of the partner schools after their first year of study, then receive a second degree from Yale. The second degree is Yale’s Master…

Two graduates of Harvard Business School’s MBA class of 1992, Jeannie and Jonathan Lavine, have donated $12.5 million to the school, the largest donation toward scholarship aid in HBS history. Out of the $12.5 million, $10 million will go to the Lavine Family Fellowship Challenge Fund, which will match scholarship donations. An additional $500,000 will…

One of the last questions you’ll get asked in business school interviews is also one of the most important: what questions do you have for us? It’s tempting not to take this question too seriously. It feels like a softball. Just because it’s the last question, though, doesn’t mean it’s the least important! In fact,…