John A. Byrne

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

Cornell B-school hires new dean

INSEAD professor Soumitra Dutta will take over the deanship in July, in the wake of the university's successful bid to open a satellite campus in New York City. By John A. Byrne

B-school Dean of the Year: UVA-Darden's Robert Bruner

It's been an impressive year for many business schools, but UVA-Darden's Robert Bruner is leading the way when it comes to making an MBA a globally relevant degree.

By John A. Byrne, contributor

(Poets&Quants) -- A year ago, Robert Bruner found himself in a discomforting place -- at the end of a wagging finger and a hard-hitting question.

The dean of the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business was in Shanghai at MORE

Harvard's grand experiment: Send 900 biz students abroad

Harvard plans to send nearly all of its entering business school students to a range of far-flung locales across the world in an ambitious week-long immersion program.

By John A. Byrne, contributor

(Poets&Quants) -- For the Harvard Business School, it is the academic equivalent of Operation Overlord.

Next month, the school that made the MBA one of the world's most valuable credentials will launch an invasion of more than 900 MBA students, roughly MORE

An unexpected B-school arms race for top students

Competition for the best students has never been more intense among the leading business schools. By John A. Byrne

Harvard B-school lands on top once again

This year's Poets&Quants B-school rankings are in and, you guessed it, Harvard takes top honors. A look at this year's winners and losers.

By John A. Byrne, contributor

(Poets&Quants) -- Dimming employment prospects on Wall Street may be causing some jitters on campus, but the mood at Harvard Business School is decidedly upbeat. Many students came back from their summer internships with lucrative job offers in hand, and for the first time MORE

Rejected: Foreign MBA applicants face major hurdles

International applicants account for a large portion of applicants at many U.S. business schools, but they also receive the lion's share of rejections. Applicants from India and China lead the pack of the rejected. By John A. Byrne

MBA costs soar. Salaries? Not so much.

The total cost of a Stanford MBA is now more than $350,000. And salaries have not kept pace. Yet another look at the diminishing returns of the degree.

By John A. Byrne, contributor

(Poets&Quants) -- Getting an MBA degree from a top-tier business school in the U.S. now costs more than a third of a million dollars. That's the unmistakable conclusion of a new analysis by Poets&Quants that takes into account the MORE

Look out, B-schools: Jack Welch is moving in

The former GE chairman aims to enroll 5,000 business students at his Jack Welch Management Institute, far eclipsing enrollment at programs like Harvard and Stanford. By John A. Byrne