Master of Business Administration

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

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

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

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