Business School

Harvard's Nitin Nohria: B-school dean of the year

As dean of the world's most powerful and influential business school, the 50-year-old Nohria has unflinchingly led the school into a new brave era.

By John A. Byrne

(Poets&Quants) -- It was four days before last year's graduation at the Harvard Business School when Dean Nitin Nohria received the anguished phone call at his home on a Sunday afternoon. Two distressed MBA students had some rather tragic news: an MBA classmate MORE

Harvard takes top MBA ranking for third year in a row

With well-received revisions to its curriculum and a massive endowment, Harvard Business School maintains its hold on the top spot on Poets&Quants MBA rankings.

By John A. Byrne

(Poets&Quants) -- For the third consecutive year, Harvard Business School remained at the top of Poets&Quants' 2012 composite ranking of the business schools with the best full-time MBA programs. Harvard was followed by the No. 2 Stanford Graduate School of Business, No. 3 MORE

Stanford MBA price tag hits $185K: Highest in the world

The total cost to attend Stanford's prestigious business school has jumped by $18,242 in just two years, besting Columbia as the world's most expensive MBA program.

By John A. Byrne

(Poets&Quants) -- Stanford's Graduate School of Business has leapfrogged the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and Columbia Business School to become the most expensive two-year MBA program in the world, according to an analysis by Poets&Quants.

This year, Stanford is telling applicants that MORE

Meet the world's best B-school professors

This year's top teachers have withstood the tests of time, taught through bear and bull markets, and have consistently imparted life-changing lessons to MBA students year after year.

By Andrea Carter

(Poets&Quants) -- A great teacher, it has been said, is like a candle. It consumes itself to light the way for others.

That's an apt description for the 50 business school professors chosen by Poets&Quants as the world's best. Most of MORE

A B-school class with 50,000 students? It's on.

UVA's Darden School has joined up with Coursera and plans to launch its first B-school class in January.

By John A. Byrne

(Poets&Quants) -- In a typical year, Professor Ed Hess figures he teaches no more than 300 students in his courses on managing smaller enterprises and the challenges of business growth. About 120 of them are MBAs, while the remaining 180 are executive education students at the University of Virginia's MORE

For sale: MBA essays from successful applicants

A new startup is peddling more than 200 essays at $50 a pop for many top schools, including Harvard, Stanford, Columbia and Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management.

By John A. Byrne

(Poets&Quants) -- Before bootstrapping a start-up that would sell the essays of admitted MBA students from the world's best business schools, Gili Elkin met with Derrick Bolton, the admissions director for Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

After all, it was Bolton MORE

Northwestern Kellogg gets the McKinsey treatment

Since arriving little more than a year ago, former McKinsey & Co. partner Betsy Ziegler has swooped in like the master consultant she has been and turned over every rock and pebble in the place.

By John A. Byrne

(Poets&Quants) -- When Betsy Ziegler applied to Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management in the mid-1990s, she was rejected outright. Ziegler, instead, got her MBA degree from Harvard Business School.

As Kellogg's associate MORE

Why Harvard MBAs overwhelmingly favor Obama

In many ways, Mitt Romney was the quintessential Harvard Business School student, and alum. So why are the current crop of Harvard MBA candidates siding with his opponent? By John A. Byrne

MBA admissions' revolving door

In recent years, plenty of B-school admissions staffers have turned into admit consultants, similar to the hordes of legislative aides who later become lobbyists on Capitol Hill. By John A. Byrne

How much have Harvard MBAs made this year?

While overall pay held steady from last year, MBA students who ventured into some of the hottest fields experienced healthy increases in starting salaries. By John A. Byrne