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University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business has announced that Vivian Riefberg, currently a senior partner at McKinsey, will be the first person to hold the school’s newly created David C. Walentas Jefferson Scholars Foundation Professorship. Riefberg, who will join Darden as a professor of practice, works frequently with government organizations at McKinsey, especially on…

Between administering the GMAT and performing annual surveys of B-schools, alumni, recruiters and applicants, it’s safe to say that GMAC is an organization with a finger on the pulse of the MBA market. Recently, the CEO of that organization, Sangeet Chowfla sat down for an interview with Poets & Quants, giving his thoughts on current…

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…

University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business announced this week a $3 million donation that will go toward a new set of scholarships for military students. The donation comes from Darden board member Thomas Watjen, a Class of ‘81 alum, and his wife Nanette. Thanks to the University of Virginia’s Bicentennial Scholars Fund, Watjen’s donation…

At top MBA programs, applications have been down across the board this year. Even the most selective MBA programs received fewer applications than in previous years. So Kaplan decided to get to the source and survey admissions officers, asking their thoughts on the recent decline in MBA applications. After all, admissions officers are in a…

University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business certainly seems to be holding its own as a heavyweight MBA program. The school has been doing well on MBA rankings and topped the ranking published last week by Forbes. Which might have you wondering: what kind of stats does it take to get into a B-school like…

What does it take to get into Stanford Graduate School of Business? Well, it won’t hurt if you have a 734 on the GMAT – the average score, according to Stanford GSB’s newly released Class of 2021 profile. The class profile paints a picture of how the typical student in this year’s Stanford MBA class…