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London Business School has unveiled a new endowed scholarship program, honoring the school’s former dean, Sir James Ball. Ball, born in 1933, held the title of Principal at LBS from 1972-1984. He passed away in January of 2018. The new scholarship program comes as the result of a £2 million (about US $2.48 million) gift…

If you’re thinking about applying to business school – especially to a top-ranked business school or MBA program – you know that every little advantage matters. That’s why we so often see applicants who are weighing the pros and cons of taking the GRE as their b-school admissions test, versus the GMAT. It’s important to…

London Business School has announced a gift of £15 million, currently about $18.85 million, to establish the BK Birla Scholars Programme. The gift, larger than any previous endowed scholarship gift to a European school, comes from Kumar Mangalam Birla, an LBS alum. Each year, BK Birla scholarships will support ten full-time MBA students, including five…

Yale School of Management has announced a new degree program for students focused on asset management. The new one-year program will result in a Master of Management Studies degree, with the first class enrolling in fall of 2020. Tobias Moskowitz, a Yale SOM finance professor, will act as the program’s faculty director. According to Moskowitz,…

In picking their new dean, USC’s Marshall School of Business has found a candidate who certainly isn’t lacking in experience. USC announced this week that Geoffrey Garrett, the Wharton School’s current dean, will become Marshall’s dean in July 2020. That news is the latest twist in the ongoing saga of USC’s deanship. Last December, USC…

A Master in Management, or MiM, is becoming an increasingly popular way to get a graduate management education. And INSEAD has apparently taken note of that, becoming the latest top business school to launch a MiM program. INSEAD says that its program will give “talented young graduates the ideal launchpad for a global career.” Like…

Getting an MBA can be a natural next step from military service. Veterans have leadership skills that top MBA programs look for, and the combination of military service followed by an MBA catches employers’ attention. That’s the good news. The even better news is that getting a top MBA just became more affordable for veterans,…

Last week, Harvard Business School announced admissions decisions for two summer programs designed to let college students test drive the school’s MBA program. Summer Venture in Management will run from June 15-21 while Peek Weekend will follow from June 21-23. Summer Venture in Management, now in its 37th year, brings rising college seniors to spend…

Professors at top business schools usually aren’t lacking in accolades, but only some of those accolades speak directly to their effectiveness as teachers. Those, of course, are teaching awards. Two professors at Yale School of Management will now be adding such awards to their lists of accomplishments, with the school announcing the 2019 recipients of…