Business School

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

Specialty MBAs: Faster and cheaper than the 'real thing'

Abridged business master's programs are growing, moreover, at a time when applications to full-time MBA programs are declining at many schools.

Welcome to pre-MBA boot camp

Strong in marketing but weak in accounting and finance? A new online MBA prep course aims to help.

By Rebecca Reisner

(Poets&Quants) -- When Devi Vallabhaneni was accepted to Harvard Business School in the third round, she figured she'd sail through the MBA program. After all, she was a quant -- a facile-with-numbers CPA who had spent four years working for Arthur Andersen in Chicago, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

The daughter of MORE

The rise of the one-year MBA

A time when applications to most two-year MBA programs are down, there's renewed and growing interest in accelerated programs. By David Bogoslaw

The rise of B-school summer camp for college students

These summer experiences offer deep dives into business fundamentals and are especially helpful to liberal arts graduates with little class work or training in business.

By David Bogoslaw

(Poets&Quants) -- For most college students, summer is a time for catching up with friends back home and working on your tan. But for a growing number of ambitious undergraduates, it's also a time for the equivalent of business school boot camp.

These summer MORE

How BU's B-school plans to take on Harvard and MIT

An impartial observer couldn't even call this a David vs. Goliath match, but Boston University's B-school dean has very big plans, starting with a major revamp of the MBA curriculum.

By John A. Byrne

(Poets&Quants) -- Soon after Kenneth Freeman arrived as the new dean of Boston University's School of Management two years ago, he began talking about a rather audacious goal: To ultimately convince people that there are really three MORE

What graduating Harvard MBAs are really up against

Harvard's annual Portrait Project gives MBAs a chance to abandon their bullet-point approach to communication and reveal some inner truth. Here's some of what this year's writers had to say. By John A. Byrne

MBA startups at Stanford reach all-time high

A record-breaking 16% of Stanford B-school's class of 2011 chose to start their own companies at graduation, exceeding the school's 12% peak during the dot-com boom. By John A. Byrne

Want to get into a top B-school? Quit your day job.

MBA admissions deans are looking for people who have launched successful, or even unsuccessful, businesses to fill spots in entrepreneurial labs and other programs. By Shawn O'Connor

Harvard shakes up its MBA admissions

Harvard said it is cutting in half the number of required essays for most applicants to its full-time MBA program and making its first round application deadline earlier than ever before. By John A. Byrne