Business School

A faster (and cheaper) alternative to an MBA

Master's in management programs are booming, especially among liberal arts grads in pursuit of a competitive edge.

FORTUNE -- After graduating from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2006 with a B.S. in political science, Evan Rezin found a job as a marketing associate at Bemis, a $5.3 billion-a-year maker of flexible packaging for consumer goods and pharmaceuticals. She enjoyed the work, but "political science has nothing to do with MORE

Want to revamp B-school? Ask the recruiters.

France's HEC has tended to fall in the shadow behind rival European business schools INSEAD, London Business School, and IMD. So it turned to Bain & Co., a voracious MBA recruiter, for help. By John A. Byrne

What makes a master B-school professor?

Yiorgos Allayannis is one of many superstar teachers at UVA-Darden, and his evolution shows how the school has made teaching an integral part of its culture. By John A. Byrne

Yale B-school wants a piece of the spotlight

Veteran B-school dean Ted Snyder has come to Yale with an ambitious agenda, designed to garner the attention and influence that has long eluded the business school. By John A. Byrne

Northwestern Kellogg to shrink two-year MBA program

The school plans to put less of an emphasis on its traditional two-year degree program as part of a sweeping strategic review at the school.

By John A. Byrne, contributor

(Poets&Quants) -- Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management said today it plans to shrink the size of its two-year MBA program by up to 25% and double or triple the enrollment in the school's one-year MBA program for business undergraduates.

"It's very clear MORE

Gen-Y looks to developing economies for biz training

Business schools, non-profits, and private employers are sending students and young workers to developing nations to hone their business skills. By Ethan Rouen

UCLA rejects 52 MBA applicants for plagiarism

All told, UCLA's Anderson school found that 52 MBA candidates were lifting whole paragraphs from other, unattributed sources in their essays. And they are far from the only B-school dealing with the problem. By John A. Byrne

Business case studies: Overused, and often abused

Popular business books often exaggerate what case studies can actually teach us, and when the evidence is shaky, the advice is suspect. By Michael E. Raynor

Michigan B-school tries to make it big in L.A.

University of Michigan's Ross School plans to start a new executive MBA program in Los Angeles, joining a saturated market with more than a dozen similar programs.

By John A. Byrne, contributor

(Poets&Quants) -- When the University of Michigan announced plans in late November to launch its first remote Executive MBA program in Los Angeles this August, some B-school observers wondered why.

The Los Angeles-San Diego metro area already has at least a MORE

Wharton takes top executive MBA honors

The prestigious (and pricey) program came in first once again among the best EMBA programs worldwide in a ranking by PoetsandQuants.

By John A. Byrne, contributor

(PoetsandQuants) -- The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School's pricey executive MBA program maintained its gold standard status in a 2012 ranking by PoetsandQuantsforExecs.com.

The prestigious program -- available at Wharton's home campus in Philadelphia for $167,160 and the school's West Coast campus in San Francisco for $173,940 MORE