Business school

Weighing the merits of an online MBA

Long-distance graduate degree programs have proliferated in recent years. Here's how to tell whether an online MBA is the real deal.

FORTUNE -- Dear Annie: I was intrigued by your column about online degree programs, because lately I've been interviewing candidates for a department head position at my company. The people who have held this job before have been MBAs, as are the most promising people I'm considering right now, but 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

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

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